The Antiwork Movement, Lazy or Enlightened?

[Kak]

Total communists. I have gone over this on my show. The root of work. How if we had no one to trade with, and no specialization of labor, that we would work incredibly harder on building our own shelter, finding our own food and largely fending for ourselves.

Work to survive is something every living being has to do. We just do it better with capitalism. Which is really just voluntary cooperation on a grand scale.

 

[Simon Angel]

Total communists. I have gone over this on my show. The root of work. How if we had no one to trade with, and no specialization of labor, that we would work incredibly harder on building our own shelter, finding our own food and largely fending for ourselves.

Work to survive is something every living being bas to do. We just do it better with capitalism.

I used to be just like the antiwork folks. Broke, in debt, and couldn't keep a job even if I had a gun to my head. I also speculated that maybe socialism would mean I'd be better off. Especially since I live in a country that was closely allied with the USSR and having heard the "Back in my day.." stories from my grandparents.

After figuring out how to add value and getting paid by ecstatic clients, my tone changed. Actually, my whole worldview changed.

Thank god for capitalism. Or, well, the guy that created it.

 

[WJK]

Has anyone else here come into contact with the Antiwork movement?
It's something I came across recently while watching this video:

Antiwork is one of Reddit's fastest-growing communities.
Part of me was actually expecting to see people that were taking control of their finances and starting businesses etc, but as far as I can tell it's mainly people boycotting the idea of work completely and largely the entire capitalist system, crying for the establishment of a socialist state.

Maybe my assessment is misinformed, but what's your opinion on it? It's clearly a manifestation of much of the same frustration I think a lot of people here have felt, it just seems they have responded to that differently.

I think it is more fundamental than what is being presented. For me, it has several parts:

1. For the younger set, I think they lack fire in their bellies. To me, this is many times rooted in them having no understanding, and internalizing, the concept of cause and effect. I do this and that happens... Being expected to perform and produce is a first for them. Why? Because -- When they were kids, they got a prize for showing up and participating. No one won or lost. No one's feelings were hurt. They expected the world to give them a "safe place" to keep them emotionally isolated. None of their actions to date have had dire consequences. They never went hungry or without anything. And now we expect them to act like a grownup and do the hard stuff? (I was tougher when I was in the 5th grade than a lot of these young people are as adults!) And they're very verbal about their demands. They howl loudly when they get uncomfortable. They've been playing the game all their lives just as they were taught to do it.

To me, it is a matter of stunted growth through a lack of real-world experiences. I believe that the whole reason for parenting is to foster and help create an independent, self-directed adult -- not a failure to thrive, wining little wimp!

2. For the older adult, I see this trend as an on-set of a mid-life crisis type of moment. Many of these people are waking to discover that the working for 40 years thing and then retiring is a terrible hoax. The idea of keeping up with the Jones -- by buying stuff that can't afford and don't really use -- on credit cards that makes them slaves to the financial industry -- is a dead-end street. What happens when they discover that it all means nothing? Can they find another way to make their lives work? They too have been playing it just like they were taught to do it in their youth.

3. And then there are those idiots who think that the government is going to take care of them out of the goodness of its heart. The welfare system here in the USA has made more slaves than the South ever thought about making. These people are stuck in a system that holds them in poverty for the rest of their lives. They can't work and get ahead -- they'll lose that monthly deposit that they depend on... Women can't have a husband and partner in life. Men are relegated to being a "baby daddy" -- which ruins their lives because the State hunts them down for child support. payments to support "the system". The women must raise their kids on their own. They are given just enough funds to barely make it, but never enough to be comfortable. They must learn to grovel just right to stay on the programs. That monthly deposit is the velvet handcuffs that hold them down, while it supports an army of social workers and politicians.

So, what's my answer? Most of these people will go back to work when their money runs out and they are faced with going hungry and being homeless. Many have shot themselves in the foot and must start over again. Some will pivot and take on a different job from the one that they had -- if they have truly had an awakening. A bunch of the young kids will end up at home with their ever-helpful helicopter parents. Again. They'll be thinking about going back to school for another useless degree -- and wracking up more student loan debts... Very few of these people who quit their jobs will successfully start their own business and join the few us out there that are slugging it out every day.

PS -- I realized after I wrote this that I'm just NOT very politically correct. Sorry if I offended some people -- or am I really sorry? I'm not so sure...

 

[ZCP]

Seems like you guys should actually visit that subreddit. May not be what you think. I don't think you understand how bad it has gotten to work some places. The new influx to that sub has shifted it from lazy people bitching to people actually being mistreated and a LOT of good info on what your competition is doing with job offers and recruiting / interviewing.
Suggest you take a spin before jumping behind yelling communism.

Have learned several good things that we have implemented in the business to do better for our staff so they can do better for us.

 

[Phikey]

I've been watching this movement the last 6 - 12 months. It's absolutely fascinating to me. Especially that subreddit. A lot of people that don't understand that their pay is closely related to the value they provide their company (or provide to anyone in society). They don't understand that their skills are currently in huge supply, or not difficult to train, and that they are not particularly unique or valuable to their company. They believe they should receive certain wages just because they've "done their time" rather than because they're paid for a specific action, job or output.

At the same time, I feel very very sorry for these people. Why? Because this movement is just going to drive the demand for automation even more. As this movement continues to grow and people demand more for providing less (doing less work, getting paid more), businesses are going to be forced to turn to cheaper forms of labor. Do you know how current AI is progressing? It's insane how much better they are getting at replacing jobs. There are now companies springing up that go into big companies and automate 20-30% of their labor force. Boom, replacing swathes of people with code. As the antiwork movement grows and employers are faced with a change in the market (towards lower supply of labour) they're going to turn to cheaper forms which will be automation. The automation is coming anyway, but this movement is accelerating it, in my humble opinion.

So while these people think they're making a big change, it's going to result in a very sad situation where people will find that they have very minimal ways to add value to society (in the way we currently structure work).

 

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[Fox]

The comments on the original video (linked in the first post) are super interesting...



















This is the result of locking everyone inside for two years.

A lot of regular-type people have seen how much of a scam the system is and how little of a reward there actually is.

It will be interesting to see what happens next.

 

[Johnny boy]

It’s not a problem that retarded teenagers don’t want to work and expect things to be free. That’s always been a thing.

It’s a problem that our society is enabling it.

Antiwork should mean “anti-eating” and “homeless”

That’s the beautiful thing about the free market. Lazy people can think and wish and argue all they want but when it comes time to survive, they have to actually work and provide something.

But, universal basic income is coming, and over 50% of people will be sitting in a cheap apartment, smoking weed, eating their ‘beyond’ meat made with bugs and watching VR porn while a shrinking number of people are adding anything to the GDP and getting taxed out of their asses.

The only way out is to build something great and isolate yourself and your family from the degeneracy that’s creeping its way up.

 

[ZCP]

update ..... have messaged @Antifragile . I definitely owe him a nice drink!
have also just done a phone call with @thechosen1 , great dude with a bright future!!
also just sent a bunch of trash talk and love to @Kung Fu Steve

TLDR; start making some connections with people on the forum. Pick up the phone! GROW this community and HELP each other.

 

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[ZCP]

I owe @Antifragile a drink. (I'll dm you)
Maybe @SteveO can facilitate?
I was feeling gamey this morning with all the other chaos I am dealing with. My bad.
Just jacking around a little and one of my championed causes 'look into it before accepting the narrative' was available.

Couple of things we've gotten from that subreddit:
- they need more money to combat inflation. show them how to help the company make more money to help them get more money
- small rewards, like here is a bumper sticker for our record profit quarter, are more insulting than helping
- there is a layer of management in bigger companies that is downright evil to people and their lives. we must root out that evil
- there is power in the masses. let's help them use it for good
- be better than the other employers = have your pick of the workforce

 

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[Speculatooor]

What all of you seem to understate is how broken the current financial system is, and how it is at the root of much of the growing phenomenom of people desincentivized to work.

Why work when inflation is 14%? Brrrrrrr another trillion package on the way
Why work when you can only barely make ends meet?
Why work when you are just a cog in the system?
Why work when there is no future?

Capitalism is the most effective system for incentivizing wealth creation, but fiat money undermines it and corrupts it to its core.

What we are seeing here is the results of 50 years of unbacked money, to be printed at will.

And the most sad thing about this all is that capitalism gets the blame for government greed (brrrr), and people are championing for socialism/communism (MORE GOVERNMENT) as a result.

People are becoming more and more anti-work, because they are not being compensated anymore (stolen by inflation), treated like dogshit, while at the same time working their asses off.

Don't believe me? Check for yourself:

WTF Happened In 1971?

"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." - F.A. Hayek 1984

wtfhappenedin1971.com

 

[Johnny boy]

Inflation is also bad for business owners. Good luck keeping products in stock. Good luck bookkeeping when prices hike 50% in a year. Good luck keeping employees. Good luck avoiding price controls.

Yes, these people are kept in wageslavery. They work to barely survive and are seeing cantillionaires (look that definition up) everywhere. You don't think they will revolt at some point? They are already chanting 'eat the rich'.

Your argument that lower class shouldn't get an 'allowance' because they will waste it is ridiculous as well. Who cares that they buy weed, that just gives entrepreneurs more opportunity. Right now it all goes to goverment.

Just because you and I made it out doesn't negate the fact that the system is completely broken. I don't want to drive my car along homeless camps. I don't want to get robbed after having dinner at a restaurant.

Bookkeeping doesn't have anything to do with the value of the dollar. I change prices, our books change. It's very simple.

Employees would leave to go do what? We pay more than any other comparable job, it's easier work, and we still have a 50% profit margin.

Wage slavery? It's called "You don't get free shit for just existing". What do I owe you for just existing? You can live any way you want. Learn a skill and you will be able to bring in some good money. You are free to learn no skills, waste your money, waste your time, make terrible decisions, etc. But when you have a shit life, you live with it, not cry about the government not subsidizing your bad choices.

Who cares that people will go from having some sort of productive existence in society to a completely draining dead weight on society? Who cares that we literally steal from more intelligent more productive high quality people and essentially throw it into a bonfire? And now we want to make the fire bigger? Right now it all goes to government...yes that's how it works. "Fake moral reason to collect more taxes -> it actually all goes to government -> find new fake moral reason to collect more taxes -> even more goes to government"

The system that's broken is the PEOPLE we have. They are retarded, drugged, brainwashed, and diluted. We have a people problem. Imagine if we took the people in our country from the WW2 era and swapped them out with the people we have now. Would we still have the same problems? Of course not. Anyone who thinks otherwise has their head on backwards. We've gone from a group of people who can't be stopped, to people that can't be helped. Things have never been easier and we've never been dumber. Our society is crumbling and it's well deserved. The degenerates that are sinking this ship don't deserve to inherit what their ancestors have created.

 

[Fox]

Ya, he did well there all things considered - I’d say the pressure of being live on Fox News is massive.

That presenter was super passive-aggressive also - no need to make it personal.

I want to read into the whole movement more but it seems like a bunch of people who feel something is wrong but don’t see any way forward that doesn’t feel equally as rigged.

We are super lucky on this forum to have a community that makes the path as clear as possible. But for many who haven’t been exposed to the right principles, it probably seems like stumbling around in the dark. They can feel it’s broken but can’t see anything to move towards.

Honestly, I kinda get this guy on some level. Why go work at a dead-end job for years and have zero to show for it. He likes philosophy and animals but what’s missing is a way to do that work in a fulfilling/valuable/profitable way.

With a different approach, he could have been a guy with a cool animal-based business who reads books and studies in his own free time. You can see he wants something like that but he just doesn’t grasp how to make it possible.

It’s pretty sad - just seems like a generation of people left behind from a lack of strong and caring leaders. No winners with this.

 

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[SteveO]

@Antifragile and @ZCP are both quality people doing excellent things. Both contribute well to this forum. Perhaps a truce is in order? On to other topics!

I don't like to see friend against friend.

 

[ZCP]

and you guys say this isn't a solid subreddit??

 

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[Devilery]

That community is something I hate with a passion. Miserable people pushing each other further down the path of misery, and anyone who offers a legitimate solution is "a corporate slave workaholic who is only driven by materialistic consumption".

Degenerates (some due to unfortunate upbringing, tragedies, etc.) who cannot grasp the simple concept of - create and share more value, get more value in return, with "value" being subjective and fluid.

 

[Antifragile]

No worries, it's a long vid.

Interestingly the whole premise of the antiwork movement is what I was struggling to figure out myself.
I genuinely thought maybe a whole new generation of people had stumbled upon something akin to what MJ talks about in his books, but sadly it seems not.

They have realised they are trapped in a system that is keeping them trapped and poor, but they still fail to figure out any constructive way to combat that. Basically, they are just dropping out of work with no plans, rejecting society while still wanting all of its benefits.

Very surprising how shortsighted all these people in their 20s/30s appear to be.

I'd say WJKs assessment is pretty accurate.

Thank you for explaining. I was genuinely curious and even googled it. Turns out they are anti-capitalist. It is back to the concepts of hating the rich.

When the wealth distribution gets too wide, we get civil wars. Think of the French Revolution. Prior to that there were only two ways to get rich in France: 1) born into wealth or b) married into wealth.

But people forget that to be able to create wealth for yourself (when you are this frustrated and want to quit a job) requires free markets and capitalism. It's the opposite of what some young folks think. The "American Dream" isn't to sit on a couch in mommy's basement and collect a handout from the government to buy bulk socks. The dream is to create, to work, to do. The dream is based in action, not inaction.

 

[Levit]

@Antifragile @ZCP My post is too dumb to fight about...

 

[Kung Fu Steve]

I feel like you guys are looking at a completely different subreddit, too.

Every time I see something on there it has a lot to do with food service and extremely poor leadership and management.

Bartenders, servers, cooks, dishwashers who are just being abused through a really rough time for that industry.

It looks to me like there are plenty of creepy people standing on the sideline working decent jobs who like to complain about other people's situations and scream "corporate greed!" to match some of their political views.

But most seem to be servers working 90 hour weeks and being called in on their one day off "OR ELSE" and them quitting on the spot.

The amazon delivery thing comes to mind. What an absolute shit show of people just not being human beings. We can get our packages tomorrow. It'll be okay.

 

[chabs]

Then why not a Subreddit that just says "My job and employer sucks"?

Ah, yes, because that wouldn't promote their political ideology as an extra added bonus.

Everything these days always comes down to the same, stale political agenda.

“Antiwork” sounds a lot more provocative and implies choosing a side/team. “My job and employer sucks” sounds like a whiney thing that might struggle to get much interest whilst people share shit experiences.

The caveat is that anti-work then has a muddle up of people complaining about shit working conditions and treatment, with generally lazy people blaming everything but themselves for all the problems in the world.

As someone who loves the grind, it can still get too much..

And the reality is we live in a world where Costco and Amazon simultaneously exist and are both profitable.

Costco = very good experience for employees (low turnover)

Amazon = very mixed experiences for employees (high turnover)

A company will do well if it provides massive value.

However it can choose to be like Costco , and leave a good taste in peoples mouths, especially the employees.

Or it can be controversial like Amazon, Walmart, etc.

People just need to understand each other and not necessarily take an absolute side on literally every issue..

Unfortunately most business people will just dismiss the whole discussion, blaming people as lazy and entitled. The reality is there would be less people energised to argue for anti-work if we had more Costco’s and less Walmart’s

 

[MJ DeMarco]

One of the mods went on Fox News and terribly represented the sub.

Funny, that's EXACTLY how I pictured "a Reddit mod" would look, straight out of central-casting.

That said, I didn't think the interview was that bad and he/she held his/her own.

 

[Levit]

Has anyone else here come into contact with the Antiwork movement?
It's something I came across recently while watching this video:

Antiwork is one of Reddit's fastest-growing communities.
Part of me was actually expecting to see people that were taking control of their finances and starting businesses etc, but as far as I can tell it's mainly people boycotting the idea of work completely and largely the entire capitalist system, crying for the establishment of a socialist state.

Maybe my assessment is misinformed, but what's your opinion on it? It's clearly a manifestation of much of the same frustration I think a lot of people here have felt, it just seems they have responded to that differently.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Bartenders, servers, cooks, dishwashers who are just being abused through a really rough time for that industry.

It looks to me like there are plenty of creepy people standing on the sideline working decent jobs who like to complain about other people's situations and scream "corporate greed!" to match some of their political views.

Then why not a Subreddit that just says "My job and employer sucks"?

Ah, yes, because that wouldn't promote their political ideology as an extra added bonus.

Everything these days always comes down to the same, stale political agenda.

 

[Johnny boy]

I don’t believe the assumption that those people are lazy. Minimum wage jobs ive had were hardest jobs in terms of exhaustion.

Work when taxed 100% is slavery. No one would work in that case.
Work when taxed 80% is still extremely disincentivizing.

Work at 50% tax and 14% inflation (and rising). How does that sound?

I would be ‘lazy’ too if I am expected to work for basically nothing in return. This phenomenon would not happen if we had sound money and low taxes.

Inflation should not scare us business owners.

If I wake up and dollars are now worth only 50% of what they were yesterday, we double our prices and wages. If customers do not stay with us that is a different story. Inflation would worry me if I had 10 million sitting in the bank as cash.

The only thing keeping most of these people at work is that they NEED to work in order to eat. You give the lower class an allowance and they'll just make weed shops rich and live in their subsidized affordable housing and have plenty of time to attend their protests in Seattle. The "people will have money to focus on their true passions now" lie is a giant joke. It would be about as effective as giving guns to prison inmates "so that with their power, they could learn to peacefully interact with the guards as equals instead of being scared". Lol no, they're going to buy weed.

These people do not get taxed at 50% lol. I do.

Yes, working no-skill jobs are awful. But, I didn't join an anti-work movement. I joined a "work twice as hard and start a business while working full time" movement and with NO help, NO loans, NO connections, built up something very nice and now life is very very good.

 

[Tjack102]

I'm embarrassed to say I go in that sub(or used to anyway) to read/troll ridiculous posts and comments from people who don't understand why they don't get paid more simply because they exist. Honestly I have a hard time believing that who or whatever is behind those usernames are real people. You have some people who legitimately think they should be paid like 50/hr to flip burgers. I couldn't help but mess with somebody that said "janitors should be paid the same as doctors".

There's people who straight up don't wanna work and want to make art all day because they think UBI will save them. People who think landlords are "evil and do nothing but extract wealth because they didn't physically build that house", but seem to be okay with giant banks and corporations owning said house.

Then you have the, imo, reasonable people who want better treatment from employers. Complaining about unreasonable qualifications such as a master's degree for a $15/hr job. Maybe 40 hrs a week is unnecessary and outdated. They think work is fine and that landlords aren't evil and they catch hell from everyone they disagree with (I've gotten my downvotes lol).

Combine all that with all the fake texts, creative writing prompts, and brigading businesses of bad reviews and I can't see how that sub can viewed as anything but entertainment.

In a way I believe how they think is the other side of the same coin as the people around here. Who the hell wants to work 40+ years with no guarantee of retirement or until they die? Whichever comes first. They just go about it the wrong way imo. They're arguing for how they think the world "should" be. How the Government "should" be.

 

[woken]

They can always move into the woods, grow their own plants and stay there for F*ck’s sake.

Who do they expect to take care of them? The government?

 

[Kak]

@WJK you are hands down the star of this thread. Thank you for your posts.

 

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[Kak]

@Kak can you elaborate how you see the currency world working then?

If you say FED caused the Roaring 20s, which led to excessive credit spending, which then led to 30s Depression, which later led to abolishment of Gold Standard and the upward cycle for the next ... well, until now I guess.

Thought experiment. Walk me through it. No FED. What does that world look like?

Edit: spelling

Get listening! Text me to argue.

What Would Life Be Like Without The FED? - Ep 250

Understanding Our Money System - Ep 154

What Happened In 1971? (Part 1) Not Capitalism's Fault - Ep 127

What Happened In 1971? (Part 2) The Gold Standard - Ep 128



Briefly, things would get cheaper, measured in work, over time. An amplified version of what we see in tech today across most industries. As people get better and better at producing things more and more efficiently, they should cost less and less… But for some reason they don’t… How strange…

Basically the government really wants no one to think about that too deeply. It’s a tax.

 

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[bibbysoka]

I was permanently banned from the anti work subreddit for consistently responding to people that complained about working minimum wage suggesting they find better paying jobs or learn skills to get better jobs.

I defended capitalism and moderators messaged me saying antiwork is completely anti capitalist and it is in their side bar.

The subreddit is growing insanely fast because there is some truth to it: a lot of employers are a$$, and a lot of people do grunt work, have to pickup shifts with no control of their schedules, high stress shitty quality of life and low pay.

However most on that subreddit use it as a complain fest, and shun entrepreneurs and anyone who believes they can create a business or provide value in the form of creating something special. Most of them believe that the world should be fundamentally different but have no actual ideas on how to do things differently and how to implement those things.

I feel like this forum is a totally, totally different place from that subreddit and I feel like Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted are literally MEANT for those types of people who don’t realize they will always be stuck in that mentality. You’re not going to destroy capitalism in my opinion, so don’t even try.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

I'm a bit late on this, but wanted to address the movement...

View: https://youtu.be/1zouvwHDLU0


TRANSCRIPT

Hello my fellow Fastlaner’s, just want to start by saying thank you, my YouTube channel just recently topped 50,000 subscribers, so if you subscribed, thanks for trusting me with your time, and if you haven’t subscribed and you have an interest in financial freedom, the type of financial freedom that does not involve regimented saving, stock market patience, and frugal budgets, please hit that subscribe button.

So if you hang out at my forum, there’s a thread there about this new movement that has surfaced on Reddit called the “anti-work movement.” It’s a pretty active discussion, there’s already over 100 comments on it, so if you’re interested in adding your thoughts there, I’ll post that link in the video description below.

Now If you haven’t heard of the “anti-work” movement, on the surface, it sounds like a bunch of quasi communists, ya know, lazy young people who don’t want to get jobs, they want to sit home all day and finger-paint or play video games.

While the movement does appear to have some of these freeloader types, surprisingly the main ideology of the group appears to be a rebellion against the big corporate systems that run the economy, or specifically, something I wrote about over 10 years ago called The Script, which by design, promotes a Slowlane way of living, ya know, spend a fortune on college degree, get a job, work 5 days a week, save your money, invest in the stock market, buy a house, then retire at 65, the good American Dream.

Unfortunately, people are now discovering that the Slowlane is no longer a guarantee, and instead I’d argue, a high probability bet of misery, mediocrity, and meaninglessness.

Millions of college graduates have discovered that if you spent six figures and five-years on a college degree, that there is NO six-figure job waiting for you after graduation —
and instead what they all found was an entry-level, meaningless job from an over-demanding employer that barely paid $40,000 and sucked the life out of ya.

I mean if you read some of these job descriptions from these employers, some of them are just so ridiculous it infuriates me…

Gee, you want 10 years experience and that will give me the privilege of your 50K a year job in your “face paced environment” (which lets face it, means : overworked)…

Oh yes, your job offer mentions that I can enjoy “remote work benefits” which likely translates into “be on call 7 days a week”
and of course my favorite, “competitive salary” which we know as just a corporate whitewashing for “we pay just as bad, or worse, then other companies in this field.”

So what these job-seekers are left with is this feeling of hopelessness and “why bother?”

Why should I work, or trade 5 days a week for the rest of my life, when it’s clear it won’t win me my freedom or happiness, and even lessor, there’s no guarantee that it will even earn me a comfortable retirement.

In short, it appears that the people in this anti-work movement have finally figured out through either their own experience, or after watching their parents struggle in the “work-consume-save-retire paradigm”, that the Script that their culture has sold them, and continues to sell them, DOES NOT WORK.

Moreover, the rampant inflation that we are experiencing right now, is putting the Script and its futility in the spotlight, where its existence is no longer a secret reserved to only those who were fortunate to read one of my books in the last 10 years.

For instance, I had someone join my forum the other day who said he wanted to become a millionaire within ten years … well I’ve got bad news for you, a million bucks 10 years from today ain’t gonna be worth jack-shit, or as I wrote in the 10th anniversary edition of TMF , a “millionaire” is now about as impressive as a used Toyota Camry.

Anyhow, going back to the anti-work movement, surprisingly, I don’t have a problem with it, because I know of no one more “anti-work” than me!

It’s the cornerstone of my The Fastlane philosophy, to create a business system based on relative value so work ultimately, work becomes optional.

But the thing is, I’ve worked my a$$ off for years so now I have the privilege of being “anti-work” minus the 1 bedroom apartment, minus the budgets, and minus the rusty truck with 200,000 miles.

Now don’t get me wrong, I still WORK by all measures of the definition — but it doesn’t feel like work. The last time I felt like I actually worked, George Bush was president.

So if the anti-work movement resonates with you, congratulations on finally discovering the that system is rigged for your lifetime enslavement, either as a consumer of material goods or entertainment vices, or as a Wall Street savings slave who plans to invest every dollar she earns into the stock market, in effect, funding the companies who support the consumption paradigm.

However, the answer to actually living an “anti-work” existence is not found in posting on Reddit, the answer is not found in tweeting “tax the rich” or voting for some politician, the answer is to change yourself.

I’m telling you, one way to guarantee yourself a lifetime of misery, is to resist, or fight things you cannot change.

Face it, your rantings on Reddit aren’t going to change human behavior, you’re not going to change how large corporations operate, and being pissed off and angry how these things treat you is like being pissed off that you can’t change the weather.

Instead, change what you can change — and that is how you interact with this system— instead of playing the game they want you to play, work to serve the game, and once you do, you can be the impetus for changing the system.

There’s an old proverb that says to be the change you want to see.

Instead of looking for a job with one of these thankless, soulless corporations, start your own CENTS-based, Fastlane business, a business that is not only designed to free you from meaningless work-save-repeat tyranny, but a business that can actually give you financial freedom while making this “anti-work” dream an future possibility.

Think about that.

Instead of blindly accepting the outdated, slave-based economic paradigm that your family, your government and your educational institutions are brainwashing you to accept, be the maverick and say, “hell no, I’m not going to play that game, and my solution to this antiquated work-slave system is not going to be a bitch and moan session on Reddit,

instead, I’m going to start a business that not only will pay me what I’m worth, often more in one month than I could earn all year at a job, but this business will force me to grow personally, it will give my life purpose and meaning by adding value to society, and most importantly, when it comes time to hire employees, I won’t treat them like dogshit, and I will pay them a meaningful wage.

Be the change you want to see, and you’ll change your life. And who knows, you might be able to change the world.

I’m MJ DeMarco, and if your looking to start a business, give your life meaning and purpose, and ultimately, live an “anti-work” existence, you can pick up any one of my books on Amazon usually for less than $20 bucks, and as always, if you pick up one of my books either because you bought it or stole it on the torrents, there’s nothing more to buy before, during, or after. I offer no upsells, no sales funnels, no coaching programs, and no big ticket seminars because ultimately, learning how to make a fortune, should never cost a fortune.

 

[WJK]

AKA hungry and homeless!

I just read an article by VOX about this issue. They were calling the Covid 19 and climate change an apocalypse. The premise of the article was that our world is over, so why should we continue to work? Uh? I know that the one thing that we can count on -- is change. And change does NOT equal an apocalypse. Talk about being silly, over-the-top dramatic! This is more of a religion rather than being just a political position.