Work
Work is a glorification of [1]slavery.
Work, better known as slavery, is an unpleasant effort that one is
required to suffer, such as harvesting crops or [2]debugging computer
programs. Work hurts living beings and takes away the meaning of their
lives, it destroys their bodies and minds. Work makes us slaves, it wastes
our lives and is a cause of a large number of [3]suicides -- many consider
it better to die than to work. One of the main goals of civilization is to
eliminate any need for work, i.e. create machines that will do all the
work for humans (see [4]automation).
[5]Fun fact: the Spanish (also Portuguese etc.) word for work, "trabajo",
comes from tripalium, a device made of three sticks used to force slaves
to work. { Thanks to my friend who told me about this <3 ~drummyfish }
While good society tries to eliminate work, [6]capitalism aims for the
opposite, i.e. artificially creating bullshit jobs and bullshit needs so
as to keep everyone enslaved to the system. Fortunately movements such as
the [7]antiwork movement try to oppose this, however masses have already
been brainwashed to be hostile to such movements and instead demand their
own enslavement.
[8]We see it as essential to start educating people about the issue as
well as starting to eliminate jobs immediately with things such as
[9]automation and [10]universal basic income.
Slavery has NOT been abolished. On the contrary, more people than ever are
enslaved, and the conditions don't much differ from those of slaves in
older times. How is it so? Well, firstly slavery back then wasn't as bad
as you see in the movies (just like for example a typical day of a cop is
much different from what you'll see in a movie, it's a fucking movie)
where you usually see black men in chains rowing in a ship or people
dragging stones to the pyramids while being constantly whipped -- indeed
that did happen, as it still happens today in the third world, but it
wasn't so common, slaves were often owned by a family and were part of it.
Yes, they were owned, but your [11]dog is also owned by you, and still
love it and take great care of it, don't you? The slave was a worker but
many times had a good relationship with his master, just as you can have a
good relationship with your boss; the master didn't take pleasure in
torturing the slave or overworking him to death in a week, he wanted to
keep him in good shape and happy so that he would live long and do work
for him. The slave might have had a relatively good life -- if he could
read and write he might have been a transcriber or teacher of the master's
children; [12]Diogenes for example was a wise slave who had great respect
of his master. A slave could many times save up money and buy his freedom
in a few years if he desired. Today's propaganda paints historical slavery
as much worse so as to make seem today's slavery not so bad -- yes, it was
bad back then but it is possibly even worse today -- the only changes that
we made are just cosmetic: for example we don't call slave masters masters
but managers or bosses, your employer still owns you through your work
contract (which you technically "may quit", but won't because you need
money, or because you would simply have to go to another slave master who
will treat you exactly the same), we (at least in the first world) don't
use physical force on people anymore but we use a much more effective and
cruel psychological, economical and social pressure (it works just as well
and keeps the slave in better physical shape, and we can call it
"[13]progress"), we no longer physically chain people in place because we
can tie people down by holding their families hostage or making them
dependent on drugs, and we can track down any individual no matter where
he goes, physical chain is not needed anymore, another cosmetic change we
call "progress". People commit more [14]suicides from overworking than
ever, that alone says something. Many modern capitalists put people under
much worse conditions than old slavemasters, for example at one point
Henry Ford allowed his workers only 10 minutes for lunch -- that's as
fucked up as it gets. If you think slavery doesn't exist, see for example
the documentary Shipbreakers in which you'll see today's people -- men,
women and children -- in India in conditions as miserable as you could
ever image, being forced to dismantle ships all day long just to earn a
few dimes for food, breathing toxic fumes, getting cancer and going blind,
dying on daily basis from no work safety, living in small huts on beaches
soaked with toxic chemical poison. That's today's world.
How To Avoid Work
For lawyers: we officially DO NOT ADVISE any illegal methods mentioned
here. However unofficially we highly welcome them. Also for lawyers: fuck
you. Here are some ways in which it might IN THEORY be possible to avoid
work:
* Becoming as independent as possible: living frugally, stopping
consuming, using old technology, growing own food, making one's
electricity etc. Even if one needs some money, needing less is always
better, as one can work less.
* Just saying fuck you to any work [15]lol: fuck everything YOLO style
can be fun, just stop doing anything, go beg for money. You'll
probably lose any social security such as healthcare and old age
pension, but you may still get some minimum life support, and if you
are extremely sick just lay down in front of main hospital entrance,
they'll probably have to save your life even without health insurance.
Even if not, living fewer years in freedom is probably better than
living longer in slavery.
* Saving [16]money: obviously, saving a lot of money makes one able to
retire soon. Watch out for inflation that destroys savings, it's nice
to put some part of it e.g. in gold so that it keeps the value.
* Some professions come with long holidays, typically e.g. teachers get
about two months off each year, so you can try to find something like
this. Also some seasonal work and so on. In some countries an employer
is required to still pay you a portion of salary even if there is no
work to be done and you have to stay at home -- you can strategically
search for work in an industry that is going to stagnate.
* Getting a disability pension: if you are really disabled then you've
already won, otherwise either fake it or bribe a doctor (e.g. with
sex). As a desperate move a capitalist slave may even go as far as
trying to cripple himself on purpose to avoid remaining slave for his
whole life, however we can't downright recommend this as of course
this can backfire in many ways. One possible way of doing so might be
e.g. stopping eating and become anorexic (to many a whole life of
freedom would be worth a few months of starving).
* Striking as often as possible: going on strikes as often as it is
possible over everything is cool, one gets a holiday and hurts the
employing company.
* Faking sickness or getting sick on purpose: for an employee it is
possible to pretend to be sick to avoid work, to bribe doctor or break
one's leg on purpose to stay at home and leech the employer and state
is a possibility (of course we don't advice you to hurt yourself, just
saying it's possible). If one just keeps breaking his leg over and
over to avoid work, they will also likely give him some mental disease
diagnosis and a disability pension so that he can stay at home
indefinitely.
* Leeching welfare: it's a common practice to e.g. register at the
employment office and then just take unemployment support.
* Becoming caretaker of a relative: in some countries you can become a
caretaker for someone, usually a relative, who's old and/or disabled
and needs a daily assistant, which will count as a job, you'll be
getting some state money etc. So ask your grandma maybe, then just let
her watch TV all day and do whatever you want with the free time.
* Convincing someone rich to just give you $$$: low chance of success,
but it can't hurt to just sincerely ask some millionaires if they
could maybe drop $100K or something, maybe when the guy will do it if
he's drunk or high or just likes you.
* "Religious reasons": adopt of even invent a "religion" that says you
cannot work, for example Judaism forbids any work on Saturday
(Sabbath) -- you may be able to dig up a religion that has a lot of
holy days on which you mustn't work. If your employer protests,
absolutely rape him in court for racism and oppression, sue him for at
least $1000000000, you're guaranteed to win this.
* Calling anonymous inspections: it can be fine to [17]troll one's
employers by calling for example hygienic workplace inspections, one
may for example call that he saw they mix in shit into food, that
there are rats running around, that employees masturbate in workplace
and so on. When inspection comes, workers may be left waiting and just
relaxing or even staying at home, and if the inspection does find some
violations (very likely), it may at least temporarily close the
workplace, again winning a few days off for the slaves.
* Stealing from the rich: stealing stuff from supermarkets, offices etc.
is nice (officially NOT ADVISED, but it's still very nice). It's also
helping society. Do not steal from the poor.
* Getting a rich partner?: someone rich can just take care of you for
sex and love, however it may be not worth it as rich people are often
capitalists whom it's better to stay away from.
* Moving to some nice community that doesn't force work: the problem is
actually finding such community, but maybe some hippie tent villages
could be like that. Multiple people living together can be an
advantage, they may pool in money to pay the absolutely necessary
bills like property tax -- this will spread the expenses over many
people so that every member will have to pay just a very small amount
per year. They may then use their land to establish a micro community
that works on [18]communist principles, making their own food etc.
* Going to [19]jail: in some countries jail are quite luxurious and once
in jail you can just refuse to work as they cannot lock you up more.
In jail you have shelter and food, i.e. already more than most people
in a capitalist society. However watch out: for some crimes you may
just get fined, not actually locked up, so it's good to study the law
to know which crimes it's best to commit to safely get one to jail.
* US edition: suing the employer: If you're a woman, nowadays you can
successfully sue anyone for rape, you don't even need evidence, making
$1000000 shouldn't be a problem. A non-white can play it on
[20]racism, a "disabiled" man can play it on disability etc. However
one mustn't hurt a fellow working class poorfag, it must be made so
that the comapany or some rich manager pays. IN THEORY it is possible
to plot with one's coworkers -- for example the coworkers on same
positions talk to each other, reveal their pays to one another, then
the one with lowest pay sues for discrimination and they split the
profit. Etc.
* Becoming a prostitute (usually for [21]women): it's easy money and you
literally get paid for having [22]sex. Unless you're real ugly it may
be enough to just "work" like this for a few days in a month.
* The gypsy way: making tons of children: gypsies managed to [23]hack
the system by just making 10, 15 or maybe 20 children -- not only you
stay on maternal leave, but you can take financial support for every
one of them.
* Widow pension: sometimes there is a widow pension, so you can quickly
marry someone who is dying, then you'll be forever getting free money.
* The feminist way: if you're a [24]woman, you can sue a random
millionaire for rape. This works every time, you can just make
everything up.
* Getting EU (or similar) money on some bullshit -- if this was to be
considered """fraud""", then we officially DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS (:D),
but it is very nice if someone does it. This would require the
hypothetical man to maybe do some small amount of "work", but he could
just dig a lot of money for doing almost nothing, for example one may
ask for money for some software project that looks like a 100K EUR 1
year project -- this would actually be true if you made the project
the "normal" way (i.e. using bloat tech, hiring consultants, managers,
lawyers and whatever), but you can just do the project in a simple,
[25]LRS way over the weekend alone, then enjoy a whole year off as
well as your free money.
* ...
See Also
* [26]antiwork
Links:
1. slavery.md
2. debugging.md
3. suicide.md
4. automation.md
5. fun.md
6. capitalism.md
7. antiwork.md
8. lrs.md
9. automation.md
10. ubi.md
11. dog.md
12. diogenes.md
13. progress.md
14. suicide.md
15. lol.md
16. money.md
17. trolling.md
18. communism.md
19. jail.md
20. racism.md
21. woman.md
22. sex.md
23. hacking.md
24. woman.md
25. lrs.md
26. antiwork.md