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Waiting for the inevitable HN critique about "voluntary work" and "why should anyone have the right to tell someone else to work less" without a complete unders
by llamataboot 10y ago
Waiting for the inevitable HN critique about "voluntary work" and "why should anyone have the right to tell someone else to work less" without a complete understanding of what voluntary means in a world with massive structural inequalities.
Or as the anarchists say, "Work 50 hours or starve" isn't a choice, it's a threat.
(edit: nitpick misspelling)
- beaconstudios 10y agowhich is kind of ironic because in a state of anarchy like subsistence farming you'd expect to work a lot more than 50 hours, and doing back-breaking manual labour at that.
- llamataboot 10y agoI'm not sure how much subsistence farming has to do with a socio-political theory that primarily came out of 19th Century Europe/Russia and Modernity, but sure, if that's your critique I don't want to derail the thread into a discussion about what anarchism is/isn't
- beaconstudios 10y agoit's just one example of a system of living that doesn't involve a central government. I'm not an anarchist myself so tend to be extremely skeptical of anarchist claims that a country with no police force would continue to be "modern" for any stretch of time.
- conanbatt 10y ago> "Work 50 hours or starve" isn't a choice, it's a threat. Damn nature, we'll get back at her somehow, we will.