Antiwork/Work Reform
A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
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Date Created: June 15, 2023
Date Updated: July 17, 2023
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The Anti-Work Library 📚
Essential Reads
Start here! These are probably the most talked-about essays on the topic.
- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2013) | listen
- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
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Well, as someone who works in film, this actually does affect me. This is a very real and very imminent threat. I would love to have no work and be able to survive. But that’s not the world we live in. And I think that being cavalier about letting massive corporations’ AI amass all the power they want while we all use it for fun is incredibly foolish. This isn’t the vanguard of the revolution. This is the elite creating a system that doesn’t replace us so we can live free. It’s about creating competing software that can do the fucking creative work. (a.k.a., those of us that found something we can stomach doing for our living in this backwards ass system.)
How can anyone—especially people in antiwork—be supportive of AI built by the most massive and dangerous tech companies going after the artists that have managed to make a living creating that art first? How is the concept of AI the good guy here? Writing, digital art, acting? Literally some of the only creative endeavors we have to survive on in this fucking capitalist hellscape.
Did you see the deadline article, where an executive said the current negotiating tactics for the writers is “wait until they start losing their apartments?” And you’re…supportive of this?
Also: your last argument is about…the ongoing profitability of films? Not about human enjoyment or surviving in a capitalist dystopia or the human experience of creating and appreciating art, but…the vampiric studios’ ability to continue profiting after an actor gets canceled? The fuck?
Open Source FTW
This is why fast transition from the current world to post-work world is important. If the transition will be slow it will be very unpleasant for everyone. And again, open source FTW.
Open source FTW and we need to push the governments for UBI and such as a transition to post work world.
Uhhh, you can still write and draw whatever you want, it's just that the art will be available to more people. More people will be able to create characters, worlds, images etc. more easly which is very cool.
Why would I support this?
Bruh, just bruh... The argument was about not having a fictional character tied to the real world person which will allow you to disconnect from the real world and immerse into the medium even further.
Your clinging to open source as some life raft just isn’t as buoyant as you might think. The leaders of AI are still Meta and open AI, both of which have talked about closing their code.
And look at the mastodon vs. Threads scenario. Mastodon was more established, federated, and free. But FB decides it wants to eat Twitter’s lunch, and threads becomes the fastest growing app in history.
If the two assholes behind both twitter and Facebook decide they want to “disrupt” the current sharing of code, they both have their hands on the lever the close those floodgates and hoard the AI advancements. Look how far AI has come lately. And we’re still in the early stages.
If in the next, say, two years, (which is an incredibly long time in tech), both open AI and meta’s AI both close up shop to protect their primary driving force (profit…and they absolutely will as soon as they want), the open source revolution you’re clinging to will more or less become irrelevant. Look how much the internet changed from its early days. And social media is similar. As soon as the power is realized, the market is cornered and money talks. How can you imagine anything different will happen this time?
You read this article, it was saying very clearly this tech was attempted to be used for evil. AND ITS STILL BRAND NEW. They were trying to screw all future actors out of their faces and voices. And these are still very early days.
I just don’t have any faith in favorable laws being written to protect us, I don’t have faith in the companies with their hands on the trigger, I don’t have faith in our current world ever transitioning to a post-work world. How can anything in the past…forty years make you think this is possible without revolution? Look at every single trend.
I dunno where you are located, but in my country, thinking we can get the government to seriously look out for us in the face of massive paradigm shift is…foolish. And in your country, maybe that’s possible, but this tech will hurt a lot of people because of the state of politics in a lot of the world. Capitalist mindset just won’t let go so easily.
I'm not talking about CORPO open source but the actual open source software. Fuck corporations indeed, noone should trust them.
This is simple because facebook had an established userbase and a lot of people knew about it. Now that they are in the fediverse a lot more people will learn about other fediverse apps and will check them out.
Corporations will absolutely try everything they can to monetise stuff. Thats why need to watch them, talk about their actions and advocate to regulate them in a way that makes sense. The future is going to be very chaotic and I don't know how we will solve those problems when most of the people are not in the ai space and are uneducated on this topic. Because of lack of knowledge about that stuff people will be advocating for and talking about the wrong stuff which will bury the actually good talks, concers, benefits etc.
Fuckers shouldn't be able to own their identities. Especially the virual ones. Even more so if the stuff is ai generated and not hand made in the computer because ai generated stuff shouldn't be copyrighted no matter what. And if they do? Then I'm with you, we will be fucked by corporations again.
As we very well know the corporations care about the profit and the profit only. They will ditch naturally grown meaty cheap machines to artificially created ones as soon they are good enough or better than humans at doing tasks while being cheaper and having no rights. Once too many people lose their jobs and there won't be nearly enough available then people will start protesting. I can see governments reacting by creating more bullshit jobs in the short term but in the medium-term they will have to introduce universal basic income because there will be no other way to keep people alive and not angry. They UBI will be only a temporary solution and I have no idea how the next steps of the process would look like but this scenerio is probably what will happen in some countries. The transition to the ai/robot workforce needs to be fast to avoid many people suffering because of lack of the jobs over a longer period of time because things were moving too slow to make people react to the change. If something bad happens to many people in a short period of time people are very probably to organise and protest. But that's not that much probable if things move slowly and gradually because the moment when people will react/organise will be when things are worse and affect more people than if it affected less people but in a very short amount of time. At the same time things need to move slowly to allow for regulations to catch up and for general public to be able to follow the topic and advancements in the ai/robotics space. Hopefully we hit this spot where we have a great balance of both but I doubt that such a thing exists when governments are very behind with regulations and they react very slowly to a new stuff (or any stuff in general).
Oh boy, now I understand all your concerns. Everything I just said will very probably not apply to you then. EU is much better when it comes to reacting to such stuff. EU still has it's problems but still does "good enough".
It won't but it's something that we need to go through unless we want for the things stay as they are. If we don't move our society forward then we are pretty much guaranteed to end up in a dystopia where corporations have all the power and people are miserable.
I'm open to further discussion and being pointed out my mistakes. My mind is not good at putting out long complex arguments so there's a very high chance that I missed some obvious stuff, started talking about something different mid argument or something else.
You’re definitely right, EU regulations are always much, much better. But look at every tech advancement. The internet is the most readily comparable advancement, yes there is a time where things look bright and like advancement will help us all, but every single technological advancement since the Industrial Revolution has burdened us more: less is never expected of us, it’s always double because of the advancement. We never find more time because of groundbreaking tech. We’re expected to utilize the tech to advance capitalism.
Capitalism is always the end goal. Even in the EU, governments acts as a sort of guardrail, but the drive of humanity isn’t ever diverted from keeping markets rising. They would wipe us all off the face of the earth before they did anything big that wasn’t utilized to advance markets and streamline productivity and expect more.
I just don’t have any faith that tech will ever set us free. AI, I cannot imagine, will be any different. I wish I had your optimism. But I just find no basis in reality for it.
Edit: and I’ve diverted from my original point, but the fact that they’re going after art first seems incredibly troubling. It’s just a sign of what’s to come, in my eyes. How can we expect them to eliminate work and keep us fed if the first major advancements that seem to be on a runaway train are creative writing and art? And now acting? That’s such a sad statement on the state of humanity.
You’re definitely right about the EU having stronger regulations by comparison, but the problem is curbed a little, it’s not gone. There is consideration for people over there, but people still are an afterthought after capitalism is firmly on its course. It’s always people being protected after we realize something is wrong (and it’s never fully protected, because the businesses concerned still have a huge say in the matter). Our entire society is upside down, we live to serve capitalism, capitalism is no longer serving us. And the next advancement will serve industry before it is curbed to protect us from it. And again,if you can imagine a world in which people are allowed to live without contributing to capitalism with our time (even in the EU), I just don’t see how you can be so optimistic when nothing about the world in 2023 seems to warrant it.