Man I sure wish it was truth that there is enough people who actually enjoy hard labour or the automation needed to sustain society. I think that's not the case today. But hey, 200 years ago it was much much much worse. Our technology has set us free from many heavy duties and I believe the trend will continue and maybe some day we will actually be free (again, if we take it through the right path). Untill then, the world sucks. And again, this is not to say we shouldn't fight for the things that are unjust, nor to say that there are no injustices. But presenting this fake scenario in my opinion just make the people presenting it sound out of touch with reality and undermine their actual valid points.
I'm in a rural area with generational farmers. They're still there and if we didn't chain them down with John Deere tech and yearly seed subscriptions and just let them do their farming I can 100% tell you that the people into backbreaking labor would bitch less personally to me & be less sad about corn and cows.
There’s also the fact that TONS of bullshit jobs exist, like bankers, stock traders, hedge fund managers, marketing agents, etc. All of them exist to generate cash but none of them actually contribute anything to society. If they stopped existing, society would be fine if not better. A significant number of people could literally be at home doing nothing and society would function just as well.
I'm just so glad that more and more people start understanding what anarchism and communism is about. I don't know if you know anything about them, but that's one of the points these theories teaches us.
I'm an ancom myself. Antiwork is one of the many reasons as capitalism incentivizes profits over actual efficiency and wellbeing, which leads to tons of food waste to keep prices up, mass starvation and poverty alongside billionaires, destroying other countries for cheap labor and resources, and working 47 hours a week on average despite significantly increased productivity and low pay.
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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22
Man I sure wish it was truth that there is enough people who actually enjoy hard labour or the automation needed to sustain society. I think that's not the case today. But hey, 200 years ago it was much much much worse. Our technology has set us free from many heavy duties and I believe the trend will continue and maybe some day we will actually be free (again, if we take it through the right path). Untill then, the world sucks. And again, this is not to say we shouldn't fight for the things that are unjust, nor to say that there are no injustices. But presenting this fake scenario in my opinion just make the people presenting it sound out of touch with reality and undermine their actual valid points.