Tim Scott is channeling Stalin in his campaign advertisements: "If you are able bodied, you work!"
#Stalin #TimScott #communism #Marxism #workism #USA #tankie

Why Americans Care About #Work So Much
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/work-revolution-ai-wfh-new-book/673572/
#Workism is rooted in the belief that #employment can provide everything we have historically expected from #organizedreligion.

I’ve been struggling lately with the concept of #workism and the impact it’s had on my life. As a #newmom, I want to spend time with my #baby, but feel guilty because I should be working. The reverse is also true. #momguilt is quite real and #society is complicit in abandoning #mothers.

At what point do we end it? When are we allowed to draw the line and say “no more?”

Eh, it’s #teatime now. Then back to work to prep for the week.

For the first time in 50 years, the rich are buying more free time. On #workism, the result of a society obsessed with #work:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/01/american-rich-men-work-less-hours-workism/672895/

It's clear from the newest Pew data
That parents ought to be aware
That chasing success and hard work
May be what's standing in their way

#workism #parenting #grandkids #pewstudy #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/pew-parents.html

People are so brainwashed into the cult of capitalism, that they can't even recognize "#workism."

Basically it's the idea that you're defined by your "#productivity." "High energy" is just another way of saying "I'm super productive." But producing what?

It's like we love to talk about "free speech" but refuse to talk about content. Sometimes #freespeech is just freedom to hate.

If I'm a "high energy" person, but what I produce is destructive to humanity and the Earth, then what I'm doing with my life is even more destructive than if I was a "low energy" person.

It's the same basic problem as the measure of #gdp What is the product? Health? Happiness? Progress? Or is it more "things" that lead to more oil and gas consumption and pollution that's killing us all?

There's a number of books like Utopia for Realists and Bullshit Jobs that shatter the productivity myths. Unfortunately, people are so programmed to value generic productivity over raising uncomfortable questions, that it's a hard sell to even raise the topic of, "what the fuck are we doing as a society, and why?"

Raising that question is like being the proverbial skunk at the #capitalist garden party.

RT @SteveSuca@twitter.com

"For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver." #workism #millenials #work #mentalhealth #meaningoflife #latestagecapitalism
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SteveSuca/status/1143943045328580613