Just released: my last issue of The Anticareerist for 2018, including appreciative comments on a recent piece by @TheWorkDogma. anticareerist.substack.com/p/reading-room…

2 years ago, I burned out & stopped publishing The Anticareerist. I deleted the blog and Substack newsletter. Polywork (Not Active), the new professional social network, has inspired me to write about being a 'Professional Anticareerist' again. polywork.com/danicaswanson/…

"Embracing Anticareerism on Polywork" is my third new blog post on Polywork in 10 days, and there's more on the way. Thanks to Polywork (Not Active) for creating a space where blogging can be so enjoyable. polywork.com/danicaswanson/…

We have to entirely disconnect healthcare and survival money from jobs. No matter what you do, no matter the job, no matter anything, you should at the very least have enough money to survive, and healthcare when you need it. All jobs should be about more than survival needs.

It brings me a unique and unprecedented kind of joy to see people freely claiming the "#anticareerist" badge I added...on a popular new professional networking site. Thank you Polywork (Not Active)! Anticareerist Pride!

Crypto rails can offer a great gateway to #UBI. I'm keeping my eye on Proof of Humanity, for example.

"Once upon a time there were good jobs, but there was a problem. These jobs weren’t for everyone… And over time there were more and more bad jobs and fewer and fewer good jobs, and even the good jobs started getting less good… Then there was a plague…" vox.com/22621892/jobs-…

Sounds like a book I've been waiting on for decades. Can't tell if it's already been published - the flyer says July, but I don't see this book on the publisher's website, so maybe that means July 2022. Can't wait to read it!

Just discovered Stacksearch! It's a nicely organized discovery engine for newsletters, including a section to explore by topic. Here's the page for The Anticareerist: stacksear.ch/for/@theantica…

"The current brand of career skepticism I’m talking about is...not a rejection of how somebody navigates the game, it’s a rejection of the game itself." It's encouraging to hear this kind of career skepticism is growing. Welcome to the new anticareerists!

Guest writer Justin Douglas unpacks "jobism," the tendency to conflate jobs and work. Enjoy this reader favorite originally published on his former Asobinomics blog in 2012. theanticareerist.substack.com/p/get-a-job-ju…

Anticareerism is not "anti-work." Anticareerism is not a critique of work in general, but a critique of "earning a living," i.e. compulsory paid employment for survival.

Great explanation. The sign-up process is quite involved; it requires a deposit, an application, a crypto wallet with ETH, making a statement on video publicly, and someone to vouch for you. But it's not means-tested or tied to wage work, which is important!

"Born of years of alienated-labor angst, The Anticareerist is a publication that unpacks and critiques the ideology of job culture, the Puritan work ethic, and the normalized injustice of 'earning a living'." theanticareerist.substack.com/p/what-is-anti…

Tough lesson for the antiwork movement. I'm not "antiwork" but I'm glad to learn that there IS a movement critiquing compulsory wage labor. When I started Why Work in the 1990s, it was hard to find others on the same page. I've now joined /r/WorkReform.

I just realized my non-US friends probably don't know how US insurance works. So lets say your employer offers insurance. They pay a portion and then you pay a portion. For a family, the employee pays on average about $400 per pay cycle, or $10,400 per year.

A major milestone. Proud that my vote helped Measure 111 pass!

“Why aren’t people making the kind of old-world classical sculptures and oil painting I like anymore?” I dunno dude why aren’t you providing an artist with a full time salary and residence on your property so they can focus on nothing but making one painting for three years.

As someone who founded a 'famous' website in the 1990s (whywork. org), I'm sad that big chunks of internet history from that formative time are now inaccessible. Most of my old site is at the Wayback Machine, but the beloved discussion forum is gone forever.