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But guess what: most people like to work, and everyone needs to feel productive to be psychologically healthy. I'm sure that was easy for someone like Marx to o
by davidmathers 18y ago
But guess what: most people like to work, and everyone needs to feel productive to be psychologically healthy. I'm sure that was easy for someone like Marx to overlook...
Actually that is Marx's point. That when people are free of labour they will fill their lives with productive work that they enjoy. The conservative anti-Marx viewpoint is that no, people are by nature bad and lazy and need to be forced to be good and productive.
work != labour
labour: doing something you don't want to do
leisure: doing something you want to do
work: being productive (orthogonal to labour/leisure)
- dkarl 18y agoLiking or enjoying something does not mean it cannot be labor. It is labor as long as I would rather be doing something else. Anyway, look at the picture Marx painted: "to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind." This is dilettantism, a reaction against work. Not many people would find this satisfactory as a life's occupation. This is the image of life a person finds appealing when he is overworked. Marx himself would have found such a life intolerable.
- windsurfer 18y agoI find that, personally, if I like something, but then get paid for it, I like that activity significantly less while I'm getting paid. I think it has something to do with the obligation and lack of free-will.