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I'm on the other side from you, but not in the way the OP is... Personally I'm against this thing where "work" is a whole separate thing outside of "life". We'

I'm on the other side from you, but not in the way the OP is... Personally I'm against this thing where "work" is a whole separate thing outside of "life". We're not doing anything directly to benefit ourselves, we're doing random often-useless tasks to make someone else rich, just so we can be allowed to access the basic necessities of life. I long for world where "work" means "tasks that need to be done", not "the place I go to be a slave so I can earn the magic capitalism points". I long for a world where work is directly beneficial to us. I long for a world where there's no concept of "going to work" and "coming home from work". I really long for a world where people don't think it sounds like a good thing to have to leave home and stop acting like a human for a massive portion of the day, every day, just to earn some arbitrary pieces of paper that only benefit us because life has been turned into a commodity by the parasites who benefit from this arrangement: the shareholding class. I often wonder what the psychological impact of this is. What does it do to us to be forced to walk on a hamster wheel for 8+ hours a day in exchange for food?

mhss 3y ago
> stop acting like a human for a massive portion of the day, every day What does this mean to you? I've worked remote and in office, I never felt like I had to stop acting like a human, so I'd like to understand how has it been for you. > earn some arbitrary pieces of paper that only benefit us because life has been turned into a commodity by the parasites who benefit from this arrangement: the shareholding class. I mean, I see Capitalism in dire need of adjustments but living costs some effort. You need to shelter yourself, feed yourself and your family, keep them healthy, safe, etc; all of that takes effort. Capitalism or not. I think Capitalism needs adjustments. There should be limits to how much profit owners can capture and should be distributed more fairly among employees, etc; but physical presence to do some types of work will continue to be needed for quite some time. We won't reach Asimov's 'Solaria' state anytime soon.

mhss 3y ago

> stop acting like a human for a massive portion of the day, every day What does this mean to you? I've worked remote and in office, I never felt like I had to stop acting like a human, so I'd like to understand how has it been for you. > earn some arbitrary pieces of paper that only benefit us because life has been turned into a commodity by the parasites who benefit from this arrangement: the shareholding class. I mean, I see Capitalism in dire need of adjustments but living costs some effort. You need to shelter yourself, feed yourself and your family, keep them healthy, safe, etc; all of that takes effort. Capitalism or not. I think Capitalism needs adjustments. There should be limits to how much profit owners can capture and should be distributed more fairly among employees, etc; but physical presence to do some types of work will continue to be needed for quite some time. We won't reach Asimov's 'Solaria' state anytime soon.