• @Cryophilia
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    24 months ago

    I guess I should say, dangerously reductive.

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      34 months ago

      It’s reductive, but not dangerously so. It calls into question why humans are working so many hours, and the answer is Capitalist profit.

      • @Cryophilia
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        04 months ago

        I guess that’s a matter of opinion. I think you’re downplaying the negative aspects of pre-industrial life too much.

        • Cowbee [he/him]
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          24 months ago

          That’s certainly not my intention, however the point must be confronted, why is it that working hours have not been reduced to, say, 4 hours daily, 5 days a week? Or 3 8 hour days? The answer lies in the fact that “standard living conditions” will always be regulated around maximizing time to work, minus time to survive and raise the next generation of workers, under Capitalism.

          • @Cryophilia
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            04 months ago

            But that’s not a unique feature of capitalism. Serfdom, even communism had it. The powerful will always seek to exploit the labor of the masses, under any economic system.

            • Cowbee [he/him]
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              34 months ago

              Why would it happen in Communism, mechanically? I’m not asking if it happened in AES states, but why.

              • @Cryophilia
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                14 months ago

                As I said, The powerful will always seek to exploit the labor of the masses, under any economic system. It appears to be fundamental to human nature.

                Note I’m not saying it’s inevitable that it will happen, but I am saying it’s inevitable that those in power will try.

                • Cowbee [he/him]
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                  14 months ago

                  As I said, The powerful will always seek to exploit the labor of the masses, under any economic system. It appears to be fundamental to human nature.

                  This is pseudoscience.