where did all you western anti-work āsocialistsā come from anyway. you want the āto each according to their needā and forgot the āfrom each according to their abilityā. āI do not dream of labourā ok, but you do dream of living well. so what you really want is someone else to labour for you, which makes you indistinguishable from any bourgeois capitalist you claim to despise. the consumerist-oriented āfully automated luxury space communismā bullshit has truly rotted peopleās brains. you want all the trappings of excess but you want the brunt of creation of that excess to be on someone else. well congratulations, you already live in an imperialist society. you have that. someone else is already harvesting your vegetables, sewing your clothes, mining the cobalt for your electronics. all you want is more, easier access to those things.
I get it on some level, especially as someone who has worked alienating, minimum wage jobs in which I have absolutely no stake other than the necessity of getting money to pay rent. but itās not the work. itās the capitalism. I do not dream of labouring to the benefit of a boss who steals my own time from me, or to pay for the militarism of my government, or even to contribute to a hypothetical pension for a hypothetical retirement. but I do dream, intensely, of labour: labour that wonāt kill me, and contributes meaningfully to a society I am proud of; a society not driven by profit for a few, that exists to meet the needs of everyone around me. we do not live in that society. but if we want to make it, labour will exist, and not just menial physical labour but an extraordinary amount of mental and social labour, almost none of which will ever be replaced by automation, and that is not a bad thing.
I do dream of Labour, I just donāt dream of exploitation.
Well, letās see, I have chronic mental and physical illnesses, so yeah, I do dream of not having to work, for both me and my fellow disabled people. I donāt think that makes me a bourgeois capitalist, but rather someone who is forced to work more than is good for me, and Iād like to stop doing that, please. There are always going to be people who canāt work at all, and people who canāt work as much as others, and people who would rather work less than what we currently consider āfull timeā because theyāre happier and healthier when theyāre not working all the time. If your revolution doesnāt include those people I want no part of it.
Oh shut the hell up.
How do you find the energy to respond like that while somehow completely missing the literal second line that states āfrom each according to their abilityā
ā¦Even beyond the fact that the OP deleted the original of this b/c it escaped its original intended limited scope and was generally intended more as a very specific vent, this response pissed me off enough that I had to reply
Like, people with easily-erased disabilities; whether it be chronic pain/fatigue to executive dysfunction; get hit with forced labor they canāt handle in our current system because thereās every incentive to pretend they donāt exist.
Because any system that uses ālazinessā/āmoochersā as a cudgel like this (Again, admitted by the author to be hastily done, incomplete and taken out of context) post does has every incentive to leave the people whoās problems they can sweep under the rug to rot, because it is significantly easier/less resource-intensive than actually helping them, and the doctrine of fearing the āfreeloaderā is the perfect instrument for blaming deeper issues on personal character flaws.
Weāve seen this logic used against us before, and that says to me that the negative readings of this are less ābad faithā and more āknowing where that shit so often leadsā. Like, thatās really an issue a lot of yāall mistake for ābad reading comprehensionā in backlash to certain points (Even if said backlash is very flawed in other ways) but thatās a wholeass different post!
Also note that the same reason applies to artistic laborers taking this badly. Cause, I have also seen some assholes using that same logic towards artists (Which I was regrettably introduced to in a post that was distressingly popular on the tunglrs) because art is difficult to fit into most economic systems and itās easier to fuck over artists than to acknowledge that.
Like, I can get what the OP was probably venting about, which Iām guessing is something like what this other reblogger outlines, but sweet genius read the room and realize thereās probably a reason why disabled people get nervous about that shit.
Thatās a lot of words saying very little.Ā
Tip: donāt assume that Iām not part of the āusā youāre referring to, buddy.
