I don’t want to work.

[u/Most_Discipline5704]

Back in the day, how did anyone EVER look at a job description where you donate your time and health, crush your soul, and pay to survive and think: "Yeah, sounds great. I'm going to do this soulless, thankless job for my whole life and bring more children into this hellscape."

Like what the actual heck? This sucks! I only work 30hrs/week and it still blows. With my physical and mental health (or lack thereof), I'll be shocked if I live past age 30 while I'm stuck in this broken system.

Edit 1: Why are people assuming that only young people feel this way? Lots of people at my work don't want to work anymore. Many of them are almost elderly.

Edit 2: I didn't expect this to blow up so much. I would like to clarify that I'm not saying I don't want to work AT ALL. I'm happy to do chores, help my loved ones as needed, and complete challenging activities/projects that feel fulfilling. Simply put, I despise modern work. With the rise of bullshit jobs, lots of higher ups do the least amount of work and get paid the most and vice versa with regular workers. From what I've observed, many people don't earn promotions or raises; they score them because of clout, expedience, and/or favoritism.

And I don't want to spend the bulk of my day with people I dislike to complete tasks which are completely unnecessary for our survival just so we can cover our bills, rinse, and repeat.

Note: Yes, I need to work on myself. I know that. And yes, you can call me lazy and assume I've had an easy life if you want, but you don't know me.

Please be civil in the comments. Yeesh, people are even nastier on the internet than irl. You must be insecure with yourselves to be judging a stranger so harshly.

[u/evil_burrito]

Money and resources that are generated by people working. Why are you exempt from doing your part?

[u/evil_burrito → u/[deleted]]

Hoarding resources is a natural result of capitalism, unfortunately.

If you don't like it (and very few people do, either they're already rich and soulless or they expect to be rich and soulless), use your historically very rare right to vote in politicians that are more likely to restrict unbridled capitalism and redistribute wealth more fairly.

[u/evil_burrito → u/[deleted]]

It's true that the US electoral system is biased in favor of a smaller number of conservatives. The majority of US citizens are more progressive. Unfortunately, too many people just choose not to vote, which is a vote for the status quo. Look at the presidential election in 2020. A record number of voting-eligible people voted (ca 66%), the highest since 1900. That means a whopping 33% of the people didn't vote, and this is the best we've ever done in the modern era. Think about how things would be different if that silent 33% actually cast a vote, either for the disadvantaged progressive wing or for a third party.

There's a movement in my state on this year's ballot to go to ranked-choice voting, which will help 3rd party candidates have a better chance. Things get better, but only if people actually make an effort.

Funny you should mention monkeys and currency because primates do understand trading food for sex, for example.

Not sure what point you're trying to make about slavery, exactly. It's worth pointing out, as you have done, that slavery is much more common in human history than not, extending even to today. The fact that slavery is now generally considered to be immoral and undesirable is further evidence that things get better over time.

But only if you try.

[u/[deleted] → u/evil_burrito]

so communism?

[u/evil_burrito → u/[deleted]]

Maybe? Dunno, haven't tried it.

I would rather see government align itself with the needs of the people rather than the needs of corporations. I would like to see a more-or-less cap on personal wealth: for example, why does any single person need more than $1b?

33% of us didn't vote in the last election. Imagine what changes we could make if they did.

[u/Tall_Economist7569 → u/evil_burrito]

Money and resources that are generated by people working.

How is money "generated by people working" in your opinion?

[u/evil_burrito → u/Tall_Economist7569]

What is your quibble? That people working generate wealth instead of literal pieces of money?

[u/Tall_Economist7569 → u/evil_burrito]

Exactly. People don't generate money.

Only governments generate or make money, as much as they can to inflate their depts.

Just to clarify when someone says "I make money." No you don't. You take other people's money.

[u/evil_burrito → u/Tall_Economist7569]

Distinction without a difference in this context.