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Working was pointless at best and 'degrading, humiliating and exploitative' at worst, says Reddit moderator behind the influential 'antiwork'

 
 
Stephen Jones
Mon, January 10, 2022, 9:34 AM
 
 
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The reasons driving the Great Resignation transcend much more than simply a desire to work less.SrdjanPav/Getty Images
  • The moderator of a viral, "anti-work" Reddit thread said most work is pointless, and humiliating.

  • Doreen Ford is a moderator of r/antiwork, which has gained 1.4 million users since October 2020.

  • "There's a lot of positions that just don't make any sense," Ford told the FT.

A moderator of a viral "anti-work" Reddit thread has said she left traditional employment because much of her work was "degrading, humiliating and exploitative."

The thread – r/antiwork – has nearly 1.6 million members and is part of a movement towards the "antiwork" rejection of the traditional idea of a nine-to-five job in favor of more leisure and fulfilment.

"I think there's a lot of positions that just don't make any sense, that do not have to exist," Doreen Ford, a moderator of the channel, told the FT.

"You're just pushing around papers for no good reason. It doesn't really help anybody," she said.

Ford, 30, spent 10 years working in retail, but left her job in 2017 after her grandmother advised her to follow her passion for dogs.

She now walks dogs part time and has never been happier, she told the FT.

"Usually, at best, [working was] pointless," said Ford. "And at worst it was degrading, humiliating and exploitative."

She added: "Most of us are just normal people. We have jobs that we don't like, which is the whole point of why we're in the movement to begin with."

The thread, whose the full name is "Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!", was started in 2013.

For years its membership numbered in the low thousands, before growing exponentially since the onset of the pandemic, which fueled a reassessment of work and its value and prompted a "Great Resignation" of resignations.

The Reddit thread now receives an average of 1,500 posts a day, in which members – so-called "Idlers" – share accounts of bad bosses and encourage each other to quit, similar to the Tang ping movement in China.

Membership of r/antiwork has grown exponentially since the beginning of the pandemic.
 
Membership of r/antiwork has grown exponentially since the beginning of the pandemic.Subreddit Stats

Insider's Hilary Hoffower reported how Gen Z and millennial workers were leading the way by trading in bad jobs for careers that offer greater purpose and meaning — while many older workers are choosing to switch to self-employment or early retirement.

A record 4.5 million Americans quit their job in November.

The reasons driving the great resignation transcend much more than simply a desire to work less.

Kentuckians, whose state is at the epicenter of America's Great Resignation, outlined fears over the Omicron variant, a dearth of accessible childcare and social inequalities as among the reasons to Insider's Juliana Kaplan, Hillary Hoffower, and Madison Hoff.

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 "Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!"

 

Most of the middle class people I know with a decent lifestyle, some would call rich, have never been unemployed.

Most in fact have worked very hard for what they have.

Zam is correct, it is the dog whistle for the welfare state and the great reset.

 

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2 hours ago, Voodoo said:

 "Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!"

 

Most of the middle class people I know with a decent lifestyle, some would call rich, have never been unemployed.

Most in fact have worked very hard for what they have.

Zam is correct, it is the dog whistle for the welfare state and the great reset.

 

It’s amazing what some are calling “rich” now.  A decent little house and a couple of late model cars, a toy or two and BAM….You are rich!!!!  

It’s all relative.  

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5 hours ago, Zambroski said:

It’s amazing what some are calling “rich” now.  A decent little house and a couple of late model cars, a toy or two and BAM….You are rich!!!!  

It’s all relative.  

Probably racist, too.  

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15 hours ago, Zambroski said:

Work was “degrading and humiliating”.

SMH.

Government welfare, less so.  Unreal.

go back to paper monopoly money for food stamps and see how quick it becomes degrading. welfare and food stamps was to be a short-term help for those struggling. not a career choice

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3 hours ago, Mainecat said:

You guys have no clue what dog walkers earn.

Yes I do in fact know what they earn,lots of cash. Most earn cash and their do not do taxes so they cannot borrow anything to get a car or buy a home. Most don't have a retirement plan or put anything in social security never mind a bank account. If it wasn't for Obama care they would have no insurance and everything is society's fault.

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On 1/11/2022 at 2:23 PM, Skidooski said:

Just trolling for a reaction...any reaction. Very SnowRider'esque

I'm your huckleberry..

On 1/11/2022 at 1:56 PM, Mainecat said:

You guys have no clue what dog walkers earn.

Unionized dog walkers, in a single source environment?

Way too much.

 

In a free market, where we can all become dog walkers?

The market will go up and down based on the supply of dog walkers and the number of dogs wanting walks.

Until the government gets involved, limiting the supplier and number of leashes available etc.

 

Simple enough to understand I think.

 

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32 minutes ago, Voodoo said:

I'm your huckleberry..

Unionized dog walkers, in a single source environment?

Way too much.

 

In a free market, where we can all become dog walkers?

The market will go up and down based on the supply of dog walkers and the number of dogs wanting walks.

Until the government gets involved, limiting the supplier and number of leashes available etc.

 

Simple enough to understand I think.

 

you van only walk three because the other guy/gal cannot control four, that would be a unfair competitive advantage 

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