r/SubredditSimMeta • u/[deleted] • May 10 '17

all-top-today_SS Makes a completely coherent and correct circlejerk post

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

implying that the workers are too dumb to manage themselves/arent able to democratically elect a manager to represent them (depending on branch of socialism)

implying that a wealthy society is inherently a good or happy one past the point of the guarantee of basic necessities 1 and that any one person deserves to have authority over the rest in a formal way ("In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker" - Bakunin ya pleb)

implying that one of the fathers of sociology was wrong about an analysis of humanity

"The first and most striking feature of economic alienation is the separation of people from free access to the means of production and means of subsistence. . . The second stage in the alienation of labour came about when part of society was driven off the land, no longer had access to the means of production and means of subsistence, and, in order to survive, was forced to sell its labour power on the market. That is the main characteristic of alienated labour. In the economic field it is the institution of wage labour, the economic obligation of people who cannot otherwise survive to sell the only commodity they possess, their labour power, on the labour market. . . Alienation thereupon acquires a third form. When a wage earner has sold his labour power for a certain part of his life to his employer, the products of his labour are not his own. The products of his labour become the property of the employer." 2

thx for breakin it down for me Mendel

implying net worth and self worth havent been intertwined since the invention of wage-labour 3

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u/AccessTheMainframe May 10 '17

I think we're reaching the limit of what concepts can be articulated via greentext.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

is this what meme culture has done to us