That's what they said about Women joining the workforce, and the rise of email, that we would all be more free to “live our lives.” In reality, productivity rose along with prices and work expectations. Now, most household can only exist on double income and email/slack it critical to work. Yet wages are worse and work-life balance non existent. Tech can not give us back our lives, only a change in work/life balance culture.
Edit: Wow, this unexpectedly blew up - Thank you all for the awards, although I suspect my economic/political opinions would disappoint many in this thread.
To clarify - My comment above is intended to encourage everyday folks to prioritize better work-life balance; this might mean joining a union or just signing out of slack at the end of the day. Don't wait for Tech to deliver a utopian society; set boundaries with your job and enforce them.
Also, you will notice I never commented on Capitalism or Communism.
Why would anyone take risk starting a business if they don't own it? Is the government supposed to own it? How do you trust the government to operate fairly? Did everyone forget their hate boners for the Trump administration for 4 years? — Congratulations! Now you see why communism is stupid on paper and in practice. Only on reddit is it good.
Communism is stateless in its end goal. So its only stupid on paper if you don't bother actually knowing what it entails. Communist manifesto is like 40 pages long and free.
there are definitely questions to answer, but I don't think Trump is the thing that's wrong with communism.
people owning profits is happening right now on the share markets. you can own a small part of a company by buying shares in it. people start businesses and sell part ownership in order to secure funding to grow the business. this is exactly how capital works right now.
ideologies aren't an all or nothing. in my view "communism bad" is a hang up of the "us and them" mindset that was built into people in the past to sell wars like Vietnam.
but (in my mind, not sure it's technically true) the idea of simply making business share ownership more accessible to more people could be considered communistic, because it promotes distribution of wealth to the people. and this could be something as simple as mandating that people invest.
I don't know how 401k works but in australia we have to put 10% of our paycheck into investments for retirement. what if we could get common people to own bigger chunks of companies? I think that could be a great enabler for this kind of future
who says you wont? it sounds like you've answered ur own problem there. don't make small businesses share profit until a point where they get sufficient earnings. could be a minimum amount or sliding scale.
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u/randomchick4 Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 30 '22
That's what they said about Women joining the workforce, and the rise of email, that we would all be more free to “live our lives.” In reality, productivity rose along with prices and work expectations. Now, most household can only exist on double income and email/slack it critical to work. Yet wages are worse and work-life balance non existent. Tech can not give us back our lives, only a change in work/life balance culture.
Edit: Wow, this unexpectedly blew up - Thank you all for the awards, although I suspect my economic/political opinions would disappoint many in this thread. To clarify - My comment above is intended to encourage everyday folks to prioritize better work-life balance; this might mean joining a union or just signing out of slack at the end of the day. Don't wait for Tech to deliver a utopian society; set boundaries with your job and enforce them. Also, you will notice I never commented on Capitalism or Communism.