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I think the other side of this coin is particularly glaring as well. Since we decided to blame those workless people, and punish them if they don’t find work.

I think the other side of this coin is particularly glaring as well. Since we decided to blame those workless people, and punish them if they don’t find work. They _have_ to find work. Which means more competition for consumption, you _have_ to consume their stuff to keep them fed. Which means more senseless competition to produce shit no one actual my need, more ads, more tele marketing, poisonous food, exploiting of addictive behavior, more jealously guarded trade secrets and “intellectual property” walls instead of cooperation and peer production. In essense by insisting that all people must be employed at all time, we force the market to produce anti-value.

wonderwonder 6y ago
Absolutely. The current crisis drives your point home. We forcing workers to go to work and expose themselves, if they refuse, they are fired and ineligible for unemployment. They are forced to martyr themselves for the a system designed to efficiently move resources from the bottom to the top. We have somehow convinced people that making other people rich while we toil our lives away is good. “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright