[tjs8rj]

That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer.

Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined the sub

[aahortwwy]

That subreddit has had links to extensive anarchist/communist reading lists in its sidebar since it was founded. Perhaps it went through a lighthearted period, but its roots are radical and the links, related subs, and moderator list from its earlier days make that abundantly clear.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190430233904/https://old.reddi...

[throwaway75787]

I'm sure there are many on that subreddit who are far from anarchist or communist, and just find that the message resonates: that working life in the US has become a monster.

[aahortwwy]

I'm sure there are. I was responding primarily to the last sentence of 'tjs8rj's post. Given the circumstances surrounding the creation and early growth of the subreddit it's rich to say that Marxist discourse has ruined it...

[Kavelach]

Sorry for the off-topic, but your name an anagram for the word "throwaway" with letters sorted from alphabetically, while the other person you're talking with has the word "throwaway" in their nickname. I just wanted to point that out

[gruez]

>to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work.

Seriously? snapshot from jul 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190703081543/https://old.reddi...

looks like it was always like that. Looking at the sidebar:

>Links

>Bob Black - The Abolition of Work

>Abolish Work - An Exposition of Philosophical Ergophobia

>Related Subreddits

>r/marxism_101

[truculent]

Is more vacation time really radical? Don’t US workers have much less than other Western countries?

[martythemaniak]

He is saying it went from "we should have more vacation" to "we should send mangers to gulags"

[fivea]

> He is saying it went from "we should have more vacation" to "we should send mangers to gulags"

I've been following /r/antiwork for a while and I never stumbled upon anything remotely similar to the story you've made up. Practically all comments are in the line of "good for you for quitting", "you should have done it sooner", "why even put a two weeks notice?", "You should talk to a lawyer to not get screwed over". But feel free to link to posts that support your personal assertion.

[imapeopleperson]

Search ‘revolution’

[scollet]

That's extreme hyperbole.

[truculent]

Yes I misread that. Apologies.

[diob]

I can't really blame them, I think after a while folks realized they all had the same experiences. Long hours, promised promotions, and eventually they have all cracked a bit.

The generation after millenials has seen how the millenial hard work essentially ruined their health (some of us got out lucky, like myself), with 0 reward besides deference to some boomers. So I think we're going to see quite a revolution in our lifetime, the new generation doesn't feel like fealty and recognizes that capitalism is really just crony capitalism. The explosion of information on the internet makes it easy to see how corruption and nepotism is 90% of everything, with 10% getting lucky + hardworking.

Who knows what will happen, I just hope we end up with healthier lives for all.

[1shooner]

> the millenial hard work essentially ruined their health

Is this referring to a specific trend or statistic?

[broken8ball]

A quick Google search yields some decent hits:

https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/February-2019/Millennia...

https://www.starlingminds.com/how-to-address-the-millennial-...

https://lifelime.thehartford.com/healthy-lifestyle/mental-he...

[hotpotamus]

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20210325/gen-x-mill...

[imtringued]

Capitalism and crony capitalism has always been the same thing.

I would argue that capitalism is just modernized/liberal feudalism. Money and land and other legal monopoloes are still driving forces of power and they are being abused in the same way.

Honestly, let them all be damned. In capitalism everyone wants to become the rentier, including me. What's my motivation? I want to protect myself from all the other rentiers.

[birtoise]

You know some boomer typed the comment when you read “Marxist talking points”. Jeez, people really have no idea what Marx’s propositions were, right?

Also: how is “more vacation time” a bad thing? US working culture is so toxic people think workers don’t deserve more leisure time. No wonder people start looking for alternatives to capitalism

[imtringued]

The thing that marxists do not understand is that the company is being opressed as well.