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Work Alienation is the byproduct of a mass-society and standardization/ commodification of goods & Services. Nobody gives a damn about your personal injections
by kwere 2y ago
Work Alienation is the byproduct of a mass-society and standardization/ commodification of goods & Services. Nobody gives a damn about your personal injections in your work bcs your work is fungible by design. Its mostly about being cheap and fast. On other ways very few would pay at scale premiums for "personalized" work.
Such things are even more pronuncied in communist societies where efficiency, political ortodoxy, collective needs are placed well above personal social needs.
- throwawayqqq11 2y agoGood point. I should have clarified that alienation is not the only source of unhappines, having no perpesctive in robotic labour is another important part, which i just scratched by mentioning low wage workers. There are very repetitive tasks that can still fullfill you, eg. simply by having contact to customers. Raising wages, lowering work hours or extending worker protections would help the depressed workforce but these things threaten capital income and so, have somehow less political momemtum until it explodes in a revolution.