Do you really think "anti-work" is the prevailing ideology in Western society? I'd argue the current popularity of "anti-work" sentiment is a backlash to the dominant "work is everything" ideology we've had the last couple of decades.
Today's zeitgeist has taught youngsters to never reach their potential and be perpetually inward looking. The exponential rise of "mental health" industrial complex and "safe spaces" in last 7-10 years is mostly has religious undercurrents and less on anything objective. It makes people misrable and pessimistic. May be the idea is to get them hooked on goverment services? I don't know. I can't steelman it.
I don't have any data to prove, but just speaking from the heart and what I see. There is definitely a need to address extreme issues and occurrences, but there is no way to separate wheat from the chaff and the entire movement has taken on weird self-fulfilling ideology.
Worker rights movements today feel less like the worker rights movements pre-2010. The absolute pinnacle of this is r/anti-work. And lots of it on HN unfortunately.
If you're here looking for optimism, there is none to be found. Cynicism everywhere.
