They say you have to work hard to get ahead, but some are finding that you can work very little and still do pretty well.

On Reddit, the “antiwork” subreddit is now one of the social network’s most active and engaged pages, after seeing explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. It currently has more than 1.6 million users, up from 180,000 in October 2020. People post epic text and e-mail screenshots of quitting their jobs, but the real heroes are so-called “idlers” — those who stay in jobs doing the absolute minimum to get by while still collecting a paycheck.

“Everyone has hit their limit with COVID, overwork, their mortgages, rent payments and so many things with capitalism. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to take a break from that and do less of it,” said Doreen Ford, the page’s moderator. A 30-year-old living in Boston, Ford once held a job in retail, but for the past five years, she’s been self-employed as a dog walker, working about 25 hours a week.

She noted that the general idea behind the anti-work movement “is to reduce the coercive element of labor as much as possible by subverting capitalism,” and said that those active on the page are mainly far leftists who support Bernie Sanders and AOC, and, often also identify as socialists, communists and/or anarchists.

Among them are users like podcastquestions, who boasted that they make $80,000 a year by answering one to two calls a week “and literally nothing else.” Another user, an anonymous IT professional, bragged about taking things a step further, automating their gig at a law firm with “a simple script that performed [their] entire job” for over a year. Company brass didn’t catch on, and the employee was still paid $90,000 a year. (Read more from “‘Anti-Work’ Threads on Reddit Are Fueling the Great Resignation” HERE)

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