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What about work for learnings sake? Frankly, I'm quite glad to be able to do basic arithmetic in my head -- having to pick up a calculator every time I need to
by achierius 1y ago
What about work for learnings sake?
Frankly, I'm quite glad to be able to do basic arithmetic in my head -- having to pick up a calculator every time I need to multiply two numbers would burn through far more time over the course of my life than what I spent in Kindergarten (or whenever) learning to do it myself.
All you want is for people to be better slaves for your capitalist machine. Never learning how to do things themselves: only consuming, buying what could otherwise have been achieved by the simple (but non-GDP-increasing) exercise of their own mind. Your rhetoric betrays your own class.
- Der_Einzige 1y agoThe idea of work abolitionism / being anti-work is somehow turned into an accusation of wanting to enslave folks for capitalist ends. You can't even imagine a reality any different than "Capitalist Realism" Go read Mark Fischer.
- achierius 1y agoTry reading more than one leftist book: Fischer is great, but he doesn't try to talk praxis. So I'm talking about pragmatics here: just pretending that "we can abolish work by automating it" is pure ideology, totally ignorant of the centuries of historical examples to the contrary. Any time you get back will immediately be seized. What matters are your personal capabilities, what the working class is capable of doing with their own hands. You advocate waiting on the bourgeoisie to hand over control (what, out of good will?), but Fischer could tell you that only by seizing power for themselves can the working class ever become free.
- Terr_ 1y ago> Any time you get back will immediately be seized. I imagine some guy several thousand years ago: "Once we finish teaching this animal to pull the plough for us, descendants of The Tribe Between The Two Rivers shall have lives of pure leisure!"