Farage is right about Woke from Home
J’accuse blogs
“One of you will be a sort of personal assistant to me for a year — this will involve a mix of very interesting work and lots of uninteresting trivia that makes my life easier which you won’t enjoy. You will not have weekday date nights, you will sacrifice many weekends — frankly it will hard having a boy/girlfriend at all. It will be exhausting but interesting and if you cut it you will be involved in things at the age of ~21 that most people never see.”
My blackened heart grew three sizes during the dreary little hissyfit that many online Tories got into after Nigel Farage railed against working from home. The Reforce Yookay leader said that it was important, in a spiritual sense, for the country to regain a sense of get up and go – and to stop working from home as a result. The howling of so many worthless Nikolas 41 ans has sent pangs of empathic depression through coursing through my veins. I feel I must save a generation of men, my followers at least, from the listless NEET-lite purgatory of working a non-job from home.
Look. Most of these people are just stupid. They heard what was a broad comment about national work ethic as ‘I will legislate to prevent companies to prevent them from letting staff work from home’. Stupid as these people are - this insight into their lives - that their occupation is so meaningless that threatening to make them do it on Mondays and Fridays, instead of watching cattle television in bed, makes them quake with horror? So much so that despite their recently acquired racism, that being told they will have to pay for a zone 1-3 railcard five days a week will lead them to vote Labour, so that the Le Grand Remplacement can continue at pace?
Answer me this, Nick 30 ans. Why bother working at all? Civil Servant, Big Four Audit. You know you could just be unemployed and fake disabilities…you’ve documented it extensively…the government will then give you a free car and a flat. In what possible sense is it more dignified to ‘work’ in a middling job that you make no real effort in? If you are producing almost nothing in a 9-5 job you are as much a leech as somebody who NEETS at home and benny maxxes, even moreso if you are using this sinecure to pay for a flatshare in London (and thus displacing somebody who really makes a contribution in some respect) instead of staying in your parents basement or adventuring through the third world.
You - the lawyers, the bankers - must know that the work you do is worthless, and that in a timeline in which had properly embraced technology you would be as Calhoun’s mice. The only reason you are drawing an income is because modern capitalism is communism. We have insane regulations, laws, management structures and other distortions which have created masses of pointless middle class jobs instead of embracing automation. It is almost impossible to fire people in Britain if they have worked in an office for more than two years, managers in the public sector are even told they must consider the financial circumstances of an individual before sacking them.
It makes me laugh out loud when I see loonies like Elizabeth the Yudkowsky dribble on about how the blimmin AI is going to make white collar people unemployed. If computers, the internet and robotics could not achieve this feat, I see no reason to believe that constantly hallucinating large language models will be capable of doing it either. Every government of my lifetime has been elected on a pledge to ‘create more jobs’, nearly all policy announcements (e.g a new Data centre…in the North) are shaped around this urge. For what reason would this stop? It won’t. The adult daycares will continue to sputter on because, in this world, the Bolsheviks won the 20th century.
You do not need to read David Graeber on ‘bullshit jobs’ to grasp this. Just look at middle class graduates howling about being asked to work five days a week properly. There is already an informal understanding in many parts of the private and public sectors that middle class people should not be expected to work on Mondays and Fridays. It is unthinkable to schedule a meeting late on a Friday afternoon. There are exceptions to this, of course, but it is the cultural direction of travel, and is almost universal in the unskilled (e.g managerial) parts of the public sector. People who actually have to do work in the real world, as an example Doctors, or Tube drivers, do not have this option. No wonder they are all on strike. Why shouldn’t you pay more taxes to support them?
It is, perhaps, a defensible position to say that you believe that society should be structured this way. But you must understand that many of you, much like the motability thieves which you malign, are rentseekers in receipt of vast amounts of middle-class welfare which is given to you through a faux-capitalist structure. If you are mostly preoccupied with how you can milk woke from home for as many days as a week as you can at your job, I will not shed a tear for you when you find it difficult to buy a house in Europe’s most competitive real estate markets. Having more of ‘you’ living where the Somalis have been occupying in Zone 2 social housing will not help the economy go gangbusters. The pensioners might as well keep their nice four bedroom houses in the inner suburbs of London, they will make much more use of their free bus passes after all.
I have some sympathy for those who use these sinecures so they can pursue artistic endeavours during the working week. Similarly, I am sympathetic to women, who are far too beautiful and precious to be working, but are forced by feminism to have a job – and parents who don’t want their children to be eaten by Bully XLs at school so they’ve been forced to move to some commuter suburb where the schools aren’t so stabby. I can understand resigning yourself to the slog for the sake of other people.
But I am disgusted by men in the early 20s, who believe themselves to be some sort of counter-elite whingeing that Farage wants to take their choccy biscuit days off away. Why do you think I invented the ‘Stakeholder’ meme? It was intended as a derisory target, not something to emulate. Why should I care about your living conditions if you want to live like a parasite? What would you do with your freedom, Nicholas, if you were not subsidising Karim? Why should we unchain you when you wish to be a slave anyway?