#post-work

[green-and-grey-solarpunk]

When they said people could easier imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism they really meant it people are really out here thinking a post-work society means no one does any labor ever and that therefore it is evil and bad. Smh

[kenotype]

[ajmonte]

Who was in a good mood today? Cuz this dude wasn’t 🙄

[awed-frog]

Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don't like and are not especially good at. Say they were hired because they were excellent cabinet-makers, and then discover they are expected to spend a great deal of their time frying fish. Neither does the task really need to be done—at least, there's only a very limited number of fish that need to be fried. Yet somehow, they all become so obsessed with resentment at the thought that some of their co-workers might be spending more time making cabinets, and not doing their fair share of the fish-frying responsibilities, that before long there's endless piles of useless badly cooked fish piling up all over the workshop and it's all that anyone really does. I think this is actually a pretty accurate description of the moral dynamics of our own economy.

David Graeber, On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant

[spaceintruderdetector]

In recent years, developed countries have seen the rise of discussions concerning "the problem with work today." Since this literature tends to reflect the frustrations of the professional–managerial class (as well as other workers in globalized services industries in the digital age), it is often at a significant distance from the concerns of the organized labor movement and the traditional Left. Much of this literature presents an unacceptable either/or: workers are encouraged either to "lean in," and become better "human capital," or else to develop forms of palliative care for these same neoliberal selves by means of personal projects of self-optimization, recovery, and wellness.

Signs of the Great Refusal: The Coming Struggle for a Postwork Society : Tedd Siegel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[awidevastdominion]

my post-work plans/fantasies have evolved in the past few months from the last few years' "do casual volunteer work, club occasionally" to today's "rent out the house, move to the islands, build a house in the mountains or by the sea." it's weird but sort of not that weird all things considered?

[liam-h]