11mo ago

Dont get it twisted.

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Having to work to survive is the default state of nature, unless you are a baby or an elder. It doesn't mean you're oppressed.
- What about our modern world makes you think humanity exsists in a default state of nature?
  
  We don't live in a post-scarcity society, so the rules of nature still apply. People need food, water, shelter, energy and someone has to work to provide those things.
  
  My fellow Lemmy user, we dont live in a post-scarity world because profits matter more than people in our Capitalist Society. We could live in a post-scarity world, but that would come at the cost of profits for the 1% who do effectively zero work.
  
  We literally destroy food in this country instead of giving it to people who have nothing. The "scarcity" is entirely manufactured.
- And yet, there's a class, that neither me or you belong to, who dosen't need to work a day of their life to survive.
  
  Sounds like a parasite. We're supposed to kill those, right?
  
  And yet many of them do anyway. And what percent of that class has never worked a day in their life? Most of them probably have years or decades of experience in their career and had to work hard to get to where they're at.
  
  Lol, lmao even
  
  You know, it's tempting to think people like this aren't real but i met a guy just like gigan IRL sitting in a bar one night.
  Guy was a working stiff like me but he was just convinced that the super-rich deserved what they had, and that he was in the proper place, the bottom. He didn't put it exactly that way, but that was the gist.
  Cant understand it, and certainly can't help folks like that understand.
  
  Maybe you didn't read the entirely of OP picture. "If you HAVE to work to survive you are working class". Some of them still work, to keep their power and privileges, or to pursue their personal needs on the arts and other alike.
  
  A gentleman should have something to do after all. Not employment of course, but some enterprise
  Not /s but said in like a mocking tone. Anyway, I'm agreeing with you
  
  The point is they don't need to work. Sure, if I didn't need to work for money then I would probably get bored and find something to do, but it's not same as selling your labour because you have to.
- I think we're lumping different kinds of "work" here. But even if we accept the premise, what would that say about people who who don't need to work? Are they unnatural?

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