• tooclose104@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    You’re a crab in a bucket and so wrong.

    If you need to work to afford to live, you’re being lied to about what’s possible for a healthy and functioning modern society to thrive.

    Don’t forget that in order for capitalism to stay alive, it requires poverty, manufactured scarcity and obsolescence.

    You should question why billionaires even exist in what you consider to be a just and modern society. You should also look up a visual representation of just how much larger 1 billion is from whatever your gross annual income is if you still think it’s reasonable that they do exist.

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      8 months ago

      You okay? I wrote about pre agrarian societies and you went with a semi hinged rant about capitalism and billionaires?

      If you meant to respond to my point though, I’m super curious how you think a society where almost everyone spends their work time getting food ALSO develops the luxuries of modern life, like a washing machine. Everyone work 2 jobs? That seems pretty against the whole free time thing. So, uhhh, help from Aliens or Jesus?

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        8 months ago

        Your post was a view point that we couldn’t work less while maintaining modern conveniences and luxuries, at least that’s how it’s coming across.

        If your point was simply that in pre-modern times they didn’t have what we have today and that it was due to working too much for sustaining life to develop, then ok I guess. Maybe I misread the thread. The main post was about the fact we’re working too many hours in our current society though so… yeah.

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          8 months ago

          I really appreciate that response and I think it’s a good example of what I love about Lemmy.

          In my head, the thread was about OP’s addition to the image, which was “whoever invented the 8 hour 5 day work week is Satan.” Where, ehhh, 8 hour work day feels like an improvement on most of history.

          Original image, I more agree with you. I think we do have technological surplus that could be better allocated towards labour/leisure/all our modern conveniences. But, I am keenly aware it is capitalism/civilization/whatever that got us here.

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            8 months ago

            Fair enough! From that view point I definitely understand where you were coming from now, my bad!

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      8 months ago

      The person you’re responding to gave no reason to think this mountain of accusations