Conspiracies, Employment, and Absolution
Why I'm against proxy work on moral grounds.
Here's the ground floor of today’s horror: Jobs. People will not risk their job for Anything, full stop. From there it's simply knowing what you're discouraged from saying at work. SFW==the ultimate default indoctrination. “A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will” ~Alexander Hamilton, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ~Upton Sinclair, I. Jobs by definition are like limited liability corporations. A job exists to absolve someone of evil acts because they become proxies for employers. That's the basis of the entire idea of doing something YOU'D rather not do because a disconnect is made from your interests and your actions. It's inherently and by definition a wall between your action and your accountability. That is what a job IS, that's what employment IS. "Just doing my job." == "Just following orders." == "I am absolved of my evil." This is why big evil groups always push the work ethic. Proverbs 16:27 Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece, literally, “A worthless man devises mischief; and in his lips there is a scorching fire.” EVERY evil group has some version of this explicitly or otherwise.
"Work" by definition is your action with reduce ethical and moral culpability. It's literally evil to some degree. and must ALWAYS be justified on some grounds. This even applies to daily chores. You take out the trash when you'd rather not because of a lesser evil calculation. It's only canceled out because you are your own employer, so the reduction of moral responsibility is canceled out by your own increase of it as your own employer.
A proxy job, where you have an external employer, or client, is by definition a culpability exchange. The level of evil in the actions if any is separate. Virtually no one understands this consciously and virtually everyone is trained according to it unconsciously. IE knowing what is SFW and what isn't intuitively.
Context:
https://x.com/Innomen/status/1832819393534783748
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1fc25nv/im_actually_antiwork/
See also: Part 2?
You're right. I saw the writing on the wall and retired early rather than watch everything turn to shit. For a while I continued as a hobby on my home acreage until it got too expensive to continue.
From what I hear from my friends and former colleagues that is exactly what happened. Our little company was crushed by the big multi nationals. I was very lucky. Because of my early retirement I only have good memories of my career. I've been gone for nine years now and every government and private entity has done everything they can to destroy a business that could have fed a huge portion of the world not to mention life long jobs for people.
I guess I'm extremely fortunate in that for most of my life I was involved in a job for which I had nothing less than a passion. I remember once when I was conducting a tour of our facility and had a visitor say to me with incredulity in his voice. "Wow! You actually really enjoy what you're doing." I remember at the time thinking why wouldn't I enjoy it. After all what would be the point of doing it if I didn't? I knew several people in the same field who were as exuberant as I was. Maybe we were just lucky.