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why are left leaning groups still using reddit? (linux.community)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the most egregious example I can think of is antiwork in reddit. Posters there love to rant against companies, but they also give good advice regarding laws in different states and is a good source to deal with micromanagers and toxic workplaces.

But it's like they simply don't think that reddit is making money with every post they write. It's like they're working for the enemy they so much despise, a large corporation.

It baffles me that people keep posting there. Is the fediverse alternative really that bad?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

lol. Yeah well, I'd love not to work either but I also want food, a home, and to do things I enjoy, so, hear me out, in our society I trade my skills and time for money to pay for those things.

If you want to talk about tangible, actionable items like how much money, or how many hours, or anything that can actually be done, then we can have a conversation. If your standpoint is "We shouldn't have to work" then to me that's not an argument. Very few people want to work - but I hate to be the one to tell you this but we aren't going to tear down 1000s of years of society in a couple of years. There's a reason Star Trek is set centuries in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The modern concept of work is relatively new, and a product of capitalism. Being anti-work is being against the modern concept of work, not labor in general.

[–] nitefox 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you. I don’t want to work, but I have to so I do. That doesn’t mean I don’t dream of a time where we won’t have to work anymore [for pointless, shitty, greedy stuff]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's my main realization over the years. We can't change the system just by being against it. We have to use the crappy system to change it incrementally over time.

[–] 0x4E4F 4 points 9 months ago

There's a reason Star Trek is set centuries in the future.

And they do work there. They don't call it work though, but it is work.

Maybe the term is what pisses some people off 🤔...