These are robust days for the “antiwork” crowd. Together with bedsores, sagging muscle tone, Cheetos stains on clothes and a profound sense of unjustified entitlement, one other occupational hazard for the occupationless has simply emerged: Contact with the skin world.
On account of three minutes on Fox Information Channel, the I-refuse-to-be-useful crowd have simply seen their motion knocked off its axis by a nuclear degree of ridicule. Over on the social media website Reddit, there are 1.7 million shiftless members of a slovenly subreddit referred to as r/antiwork. Fox’s Jesse Watters thought the group’s outlook sounded attention-grabbing, so he referred to as up one in every of its leaders for a chat. What transpired went so badly for the antiwork sorts that I worry they received’t have the ability to get away from bed all weekend, though I concede that’s a moot level for the armies of the susceptible.
Watters requested a number of not-particularly-mean questions of the chief, a transgender particular person named Doreen, who … properly, I might by no means need to be accused of being impolite. Let’s simply recap how some members of the group described one in every of their chiefs:
- “Doreen, honey, that you must change your look. That is coming from somebody who seemed similar to you. You can't have a messy room, poorly lit situations, messy hair and count on folks to take you severely.”
- “At this level, the face of r/antiwork is a lazy, unprepared, unappreciative canine walker.”
- “It’s just like the mods handed Fox Information a loaded gun, Fox Information handed it again, and the mods proceeded to shoot themselves within the foot.”
- “I consider that this was clearly finished on goal by a head-hunter at Fox to showcase how ‘completely ridiculous’ all of us are.”
Truly, no, it was your personal chief who showcased that. Fox merely put her onscreen. Doreen, who works 20 to 25 hours per week as a canine walker however wish to work much less (both that or turn out to be a philosophy instructor, she defined, as a result of she clearly has numerous knowledge to cross alongside), informed Watters, “I feel laziness is a advantage in a society the place folks continuously count on you to be productive 24/7.”
Yay laziness? That isn’t speculated to be one thing you say out loud. Laziness is mostly considered a personality defect, particularly within the hard-charging US. The members of antiwork don’t need to hear it, however the share of Individuals who have been “fully happy” or “considerably happy” with their jobs was 87% in 2021, in response to a Gallup ballot. Pre-pandemic, it was 93%!
After Doreen imploded, a lot mockery ensued on the subreddit, so towards her acknowledged philosophy, the moderators went to work feverishly eradicating important posts earlier than shutting it down totally. (It was subsequently reopened.) Eradicating the entire important remarks was like making an attempt to bail out the basement with a teacup, however they acquired cracking anyway.
These of us actually busted their tails in pursuit of the bigger aim of not working. Alas for them, not like common individuals who work and receives a commission, typically even whereas having fun with it, they acquired the worst of each worlds: They needed to go to work with out pay, on deeply disagreeable responsibility, getting rubbish baggage filled with jokes and insults dumped throughout their heads.
So not solely will the antiwork motion eternally be dogged by a video clip during which it disintegrated stay on tv — the YouTube clip has scored 2 million views, not counting the hundreds of thousands who noticed the present stay, so the implosion is now higher identified than the group ever was by itself — it now has to attempt to convey peace as its personal C.H.U.D.-dish members devour one another.
As soon as once more we discover that, like these Climate Underground radicals who blew up their very own townhouse in Greenwich Village, the left has a form of genius for destroying itself.
As one other Reddit consumer mirrored, “If solely the CIA was as competent at tearing down ‘leftist actions’ as infighting leftists are.”
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