capitalists: ‘you just hate capitalism just cause you’re lazy and dont wanna work’
me:
crazy thought - i DONT wanna labor away and never truly experience living my own life?
These are always funny to me because they don't want communism--they want to be royalty. They don't want this life of leisure for everyone, because their electricity, food, plumbing, appliances, medicine, etc., aren't going to just drop out the sky. Someone is going to have to work and work hard to provide for them while they contribute nothing to anyone, like the indolent spare heir of monarchy. They're just trying to cloak their parasitic desires in benevolent mask.
Simone Weil pointed out that the soul-crushing, alienating nature of assembly line factory work persists when the factory is worker-owned.
The fact is, Life has never come for free.
Look back in time to a more agrarian era, where home was basically your business.
Yes. There were days of rest, Holy Days - religious festivals.
But the rest of the time you were working long hard days, and at the mercy of the forces of nature.
House building and maintaining
water gathering
Animal Husbandry and Agriculture
Gathering Wild Harvest
And then there was the work of turning raw materials into what the family would use. This was often work done by women.
Grinding flour - baking bread (or getting flour from the mill)
Brewing ale/wine etc.
Preserving fruits and veg
Preserving meat - smoking, drying, salting, making sausages and black pudding
Dairy work - butter, cheese, clotted cream etc
Textiles work -
gathering raw wool, flax, nettles
carding/preparing
spinning thread and winding into balls or onto bobbins.
weaving, knitting, crochet etc of cloth
sewing, mending laundering of clothes.
You could barter goods and services with other people.
And eventually we got money. You could provide a service and people paid money for the convenience of you doing the job for them.
Of course money can bring it's own potential for problems, when it meets human greed.
And we should fight these when they rear their heads.
But it's a tool, when all's said and done.
And we can/shoud put effort into finding work/life balance.
tankies upon reading this:



































