Labor you don’t do, is labor someone else has to. Who’s going to maintain sewage systems or power plants or water systems or thousands of things people need to survive? God egoists and “anti-work” people are insufferable.
I’m super sympathetic to the anti-work movement. Work abolition should be a component of a new society. Our intrinsic motivation to improve society, in part, comes from wanting more of our time to be fully our own. That drives labor-saving innovations and it drives economy (saving and reduced consumption and the like).
Obviously we will have to work to get there. But we certainly won’t have to work the jobs that late stage capitalism provides. And at some point we need to turn our planning efforts to reducing the amount of labor that is socially necessary.
I choose to interpret the anti-work movement this way because it is the most productive way for me to interpret it.
Something that seems paradoxical to me is how people always talk about “losing workplaces” like that’s a bad thing. If the entire amount of work can be done by less people that is certainly positive for me. In capitalism ofc this doesn’t work but that only further proves the intrinsic paradox that capitalism is.
Labor you don’t do, is labor someone else has to. Who’s going to maintain sewage systems or power plants or water systems or thousands of things people need to survive? God egoists and “anti-work” people are insufferable.
I’m super sympathetic to the anti-work movement. Work abolition should be a component of a new society. Our intrinsic motivation to improve society, in part, comes from wanting more of our time to be fully our own. That drives labor-saving innovations and it drives economy (saving and reduced consumption and the like).
Obviously we will have to work to get there. But we certainly won’t have to work the jobs that late stage capitalism provides. And at some point we need to turn our planning efforts to reducing the amount of labor that is socially necessary.
I choose to interpret the anti-work movement this way because it is the most productive way for me to interpret it.
Something that seems paradoxical to me is how people always talk about “losing workplaces” like that’s a bad thing. If the entire amount of work can be done by less people that is certainly positive for me. In capitalism ofc this doesn’t work but that only further proves the intrinsic paradox that capitalism is.