>However I think a substantial number of posts are creative writing exercises

A lot of division trolling going on there, trying to foment labor militancy. r/antiwork is the most visible facet of it, endlessly trying to encourage strikes, calling out, sandbagging, etc. This overemployed stuff (people blatantly bragging about how they're getting so much money for barely working and how you're stupid if you don't try and scam the system) is another facet of it.

It's the usual suspects exploiting and widening any and all divisions in society they can find.

Nah, it's more of an offshoot of r/cscq and Blind in the spirit of maximizing compensation above all else.

I can see this

Smart lad, keep it up.

It's WallStreetBets-esque. Not sure if it's reached the stage where most of the people on that subreddit are taking ironic advice unironically like we saw with WSB.

Nothing would surprise me in this age of post-irony. Fittingly, there is also apparently a grift component to it because the subreddit’s creator is hawking some service/product he’s selling.

The post-irony age has some amazingly brazen grifts. It's funny to watch from afar, but the last near-decade has shown how close to home these communities and grifts can eventually hit.