Antiwork != Mooching, is it?

I just saw the following meme, What the hell even is a dream job? by PrecisionAcc (Reddit), which highlighted the picture shown below.

What even is a dream job?

Wait. I know that this was picture was just to snark about the term “dream job”, but it also highlights an interesting divergence of opinion about what work is.

I thought antiwork was about being against the drone-job work culture, not against being useful at all.

I understand that it’s hard to even conceive of a world where jobs don’t suck when you have a shitty job. But isn’t that what this forum could help people imagine and then realize? Or am in the wrong meeting?

I mean, the dream can’t be just to mooch, can it? That’s what the OP’s caption says: travel and eat good food is all they can imagine, when the question was: what would you like to do to earn that lifestyle.

I interpret the “dream job” question as: what would you like to provide society while others make it possible for you to travel and enjoy good food?

Helping old people, making lunches for kids whose parents work, caring for a forest, building water pumps for the sewage-treatment plant, building cell-phone towers … society needs a lot of stuff to get done in order for people to enjoy unlimited data, travel, and good food.

Maybe not everyone needs to work anymore in order for everyone to get what they want—but it’s kind to arrogant to assume you’re in that privileged class. Also, it gets boring real fast.

So, where would you love to help? What’s your dream job?