We've been playing a farming sim type game in the same genre as Harvest Moon. We've just been idly having a video in the background and a thought occurred to us. We'll convey it here.
Marxism tends to talk about how we derive our purpose in life through the labor we create. Alienated labor is as a result something that we don't extract direct value from, because all the work we do is for the sake of people we'll never meet. We work for a corporation and our labor is thusly alienated.
Now we could be enjoying this lovely time with a gross corporation and praise them for their oh so generous progress in the world. But that progress is a load of crap to get their profit margins to increase. And that's a pretty obvious point for us from every company we've worked for so far.
And well, for little old us, we find that video games and even house work and errands or doing something for a friend tends to be a lot more rewarding than whatever is offered from some stinky employer. I'd go as far as to say that the labor we put into intimacy is heck of a lot more fun and engaging than getting the socks off of some profit chart or whatever.
Now of course, we're aware that these processes are like babies first Marxism. Yet it's something that has continued to strike us as fascinating every time. We gain no monetary gain from playing these cozy games. We are, for all intents and purposes, doing something that could be considered a job task in itself. But because we're seeking to accomplish it by our own, it ends up holding value to us and being important. In regards to the, let's use the economist's "great" wording here, more productive tasks we can do, those still give us more satisfaction, even if we'll never be directly paid for any of this. The alienating nature of money and how that money will always be in favor of the house, means that for us, the players, the workers, we'll never gain much. And what we can see as people that fit into all sorts of labels for fun minority groups, but we're considered even more potentially exploitable by the few willing to hire us. And that's just not okay.
The world should be collective. The world should be communal. The world should be communist and it should be anarchist. And it certainly shouldn't force people into labor, whether caused by MLM styled state policies or by liberal, neoliberal, conservative or authoritarian styled ideas of capitalism.
This has been our first post where we've collectively written this. This has involved 3 of our headmates. We're still a very recent system, so we're adjusting to things. Apologies if you find this strange, but if you do, deal with it. Because we're certainly not going to bend to you.
