I think anyone who thinks work is natural has severed their consciousness. That's some zombie shit.

But even within anarchist circles antiwork is a minority current. Most people are workerists because it's all they know.

They've been thouroughly indocrinated into the system from birth. Trained to be unthinking worker bees.

Most ppl who resist the training are silenced by the state in various ways: Prison, mental institutions, execution by cop, or they're just medicated into submission with antideppressents. While a few find ways to exist outside of the worker industrial complex by becoming self sufficient, by manipulating the welfare system or much more rarely by lucking into an alternative mode of work that isn't completely overwhelming, debt-forming, anxiety-ridden and alienating. But mostly by realizing happiness doesnt come from stuff. It comes from simplicity.

Ppl have the destructive habit of placing all these requirements on their happiness. They say "i need x and x and x and x and x to be happy".

And then they spend years trying to check all the x's off their list. And 1 of 2 outcomes happens:

Either they fail to check them off after working for decades and become bitter and resentful that things didnt work out the way they were "supposed" to. Or, much more rarely (almost always reserved to rich people), they actually achieve all the xs but continue to be unhappy when those xs don't actually change how they feel and thus they become bitter and resentful at having worked for years towards their goals only to feel the same after i.e. shitty, anxious, exhausted, joyless.

Like when Jack quits his new dream job at the end of 30 Rock because he realizes after all those years of working towards his "perfect life balance" chart he still isn't fulfilled. Work isn't meant to fulfill us. Life isn't about working ceaselessly to check goals off a list until you run out of time and die.

Once you reach the x on your list you're too exhausted to get any joy out of it. And then you have to put your face back on and get back out there in pursuit of the next soul-crushing goal.

None of it matters.

The whole system is constructed to keep us in perpetual toil. Only the system benefits from our work. We just survive. There's no prosperity in work, only defeat.

Doesn't matter how much stuff the system lets us buy along the way with our work tokens. We only buy the stuff because we feel alienated from ourselves by the constant grind of work and we want to fill the gaping hole within us, but the stuff only makes us have to work harder and thus makes the hole bigger and harder to fill.

All humans need is food, shelter, company, and a way to express themselves.

That's it.

Everything else just alienates us from what it means to be alive. Work is a death trap. Crawl out of it as quickly as you can and and start living.