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I don‘t really care if he said other wrong things, even a blind chicken finds corn sometimes, and with this he struck a chord in me.
Even though I’m in country with social safety nets, which DOES help with being able to leave a shit job don‘t get me wrong, but they also look down on you if you ever make use of them and you do get forced back to any job no matter how shit ASAP.
So all in all just feels demeaning to work anyway like a game of "choose your own kingdom" and so as if under a dictator, mainly for me cause some company owners do behave lordly and like to order around others and flex their power over people.
So to escape what always felt wrong to me, as much as I am allowed to by the system, I chose to work less on my own, I chose a "lying flat" lifestyle and it‘s opened up more freedom in my life to stop and think about what I want and why.
It‘s pretty decent for me now (my current king is kind) and I‘m lucky to have this sort of privileged position where I can do this, though it requires sacrifices too (will never own anything or have kids for one) and when I tell others they look at me as if I‘m crazy. Still worth it.
Yeah, I'm doing quite similar, but I will try to do a PhD, and I want to do some kind of remote software worker coop because I know machine learning, still after I started applying for normal jobs I figured fuck that shit that you have to fight for them to exploit you. For now I can survive by remote math + programming tutoring.
For a lot of people their chains are the reason for their "success", if you tell them to destroy the chains to get free they will deem you a madman.
Yeah so I edited my comment like 5 times cause I felt so insecure voicing all this, cause I did get a lot of pushback from pretty much anyone I know and ridiculed before even online. So I was afraid they are right, so far it works for me though and I went from suicidal to alright, just from working less.
I hope you can make your coop work, seems like a cool idea too, though it‘s also so hard for small business, a friend of mine has one and it‘s almost like he is his own king and he isn‘t kind to himself either, mainly cause the competition is so fierce.
Maybe try finding other anarchists near you? On average they should be less obsessed with workerism, maybe you can cooperate with them on some project, at least you will be less socially isolated because unfortunately social isolation is very harmful - which is one of the biggest issues with changing even clearly oppressive systems like our states/capitalism. Even though you may behave rationally, other people may take their suffering as a badge of honor and deem you not worthy of their respect just because you have better perspective on exploitation of the current system. If you are in Europe you may be interested in attending big anarchist congress in St Imier, Switzerland: https://anarchy2023.org/
Thank you a good suggestion, this is interesting and actually maybe I could make it to this!