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Ah... and what about the mythology of no work ? Granted, there are vast amounts of wasted work hours these days, be it farmers producing food when 30% of it go
by JodieBenitez 2y ago
Ah... and what about the mythology of no work ?
Granted, there are vast amounts of wasted work hours these days, be it farmers producing food when 30% of it goes straight to trash or those poor souls stuck in bullshit office jobs. But this:
> Yet once upon a time, before time cards and power lunches, everything got done without work.
Is a straight-up lie.
- dominicrose 2y agoassuming the "work" as defined in the dictionary has always existed, there is a time when the way we're working now didn't exist
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoSure, subsistence farmers didn't work the way we work now, with hyper division of labor. If you think it wasn't work, though, you're kidding yourself.
- robtherobber 2y agoMany researchers (labour historians, anthropologists, sociologists etc.) draw a distinction between labour and work, as well as the different kinds of work [0]. [0] https://ilostat.ilo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Capture.png https://ilostat.ilo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Capture.p...
- sdellis 2y agoNo one said anything about "no work", but that's an attractive straw man. Most people don't mind working hard, but they don't want to be exploited which is the point of the essay. Exploitation is rewarded under capitalism which must perpetuate the myths the author calls out to make it easier to exploit people.
- JodieBenitez 2y ago> No one said anything about "no work" What straw man ? It's written in the essay: "everything got done without work". Nope, it never happened.
- sdellis 2y agoOk, yes, "no forced exploitation" if you need someone to translate the out of context cherry pick. There is that nuance in definition of the word "work" that enables these myths. Also from the author: "Let’s be clear about this—critiquing work doesn’t mean rejecting labor, effort, ambition, or commitment. It doesn’t mean demanding that everything be fun or easy. Fighting against the forces that compel us to work is hard work. Laziness is not the alternative to work, though it might be a byproduct of it."
- wturner 2y agoThis site is a cess pool of libertarian axioms and nit picks by people that believe they are the next Mark Zuckerberg. Anything remotely critical of capitalism is piled on. It's their culture.
- standardly 2y ago"Axioms" is a very generous way of stating it.. but I'm sure you'd agree