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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5152804" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>Just found out about this subreddit. You've been holding out on us, [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER] ! </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/antiwork-reddit-fox-news-interview-b2001619.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>"A wildly popular subreddit called r/antiwork, where users discuss ways to reform exploitative labour systems and commiserate over pandemic working conditions, has suddenly gone private after a testy interview between Fox News anchor Jesse Watters and one of the forum’s moderators.</p><p></p><p>r/antiwork has been around since 2013, but has seen a rocket-ship rise to popularity during the strains of the pandemic. The community, whose slogan is “Unemployment for all, not just the rich!” has more than 1.7 million users, and <a href="http://s-fox-news-interview/" target="_blank"><u>was the fastest-growing non-default reddit</u></a> across the site as of 26 January."</p><p></p><p>“The point of the movement is not to tell everyone to go quit your job immediately and don’t think about the economic impact on yourself or your family — that’s definitely not the message,” she told Bloomberg last month.<strong> “The central aim of our mission is to undermine and subvert capitalism as much as possible </strong>and make it so that people don’t have to rely on their jobs as much to pay rent.”</p><p></p><p>In November, a moderator told <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/quit-job-anti-work-pandemic-b1951136.html" target="_blank"><em>The Independent</em></a>: “Anti-work is a philosophy that is a radical one, that tries to strike at the systemic issues within capitalism – but I think that intuitive thing, where a lot of people are trying to do work-life balance, a lot of people are quitting their jobs, a lot of people are fed up with how their companies may been handling Covid and stuff like that”.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5152804, member: 48469"] Just found out about this subreddit. You've been holding out on us, [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER] ! [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/antiwork-reddit-fox-news-interview-b2001619.html[/URL] "A wildly popular subreddit called r/antiwork, where users discuss ways to reform exploitative labour systems and commiserate over pandemic working conditions, has suddenly gone private after a testy interview between Fox News anchor Jesse Watters and one of the forum’s moderators. r/antiwork has been around since 2013, but has seen a rocket-ship rise to popularity during the strains of the pandemic. The community, whose slogan is “Unemployment for all, not just the rich!” has more than 1.7 million users, and [URL='http://s-fox-news-interview/'][U]was the fastest-growing non-default reddit[/U][/URL] across the site as of 26 January." “The point of the movement is not to tell everyone to go quit your job immediately and don’t think about the economic impact on yourself or your family — that’s definitely not the message,” she told Bloomberg last month.[B] “The central aim of our mission is to undermine and subvert capitalism as much as possible [/B]and make it so that people don’t have to rely on their jobs as much to pay rent.” In November, a moderator told [URL='https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/quit-job-anti-work-pandemic-b1951136.html'][I]The Independent[/I][/URL]: “Anti-work is a philosophy that is a radical one, that tries to strike at the systemic issues within capitalism – but I think that intuitive thing, where a lot of people are trying to do work-life balance, a lot of people are quitting their jobs, a lot of people are fed up with how their companies may been handling Covid and stuff like that”. [/QUOTE]
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