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The distinction is that trading labour for money/capital is a creation of society. It's not a natural rule. There are gatekeepers. I can't simply decide to go o
by stegosaurus 11y ago
The distinction is that trading labour for money/capital is a creation of society. It's not a natural rule. There are gatekeepers. I can't simply decide to go out and kill some wild animals or whatever and eat, and I can't decide to chop trees down and build a house. Getting a job is not a simple matter of just deciding to do it.
By contrast, eating well is, aside from in cases of poverty, completely a matter of free choice.
- baddox 11y agoI don't see that contrast at all. You just said you can't decide to go out and kill wild animals to eat, then followed up by saying that what you eat is completely a matter of free choice.
- stegosaurus 11y agoI'm going to leave this now as I suspect we're not likely to make further progress. Working a job for an employer in order to live is not immutable, people do cling to it - if you think we can't change that, we have nothing further to discuss.