Look my point here was that work sucks and always will suck and the goal is always to do less of it If you ever lose sight of this fact people will fuck you over It doesn't matter whether the system you live under is called "capitalism" or nothttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1259630632637874176 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Tbh people usually don't even do that much less work when they aren't forced either, they just do what they actually want to. Like before this shit I was taking a shop class that I'm pretty sure was entirely SSI recipients because if you GO FUCKING INSANE if you do nothing.
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"doing something" isn't at all the same thing as "doing work", even if you're producing something by your action.
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Replying to @IgneousSigil @KatastrophicImp
The actual definition of "work" is that you're not doing it because you want to but to fill some kind of need
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
The big argument of the Cold War should not reduced to the strawman (freely used by both sides) of "How do you get people to do stuff instead of just sitting around all day" It's the *coordination* problem, "How do you get people to do the specific things that need doing"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Which ties into the arguments about the exchange vs labor theory of value Okay, everyone at our factory spent years working on these ball bearings, but it turns out they just became obsolete and no one can use them for anything anymore Do we still get paid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
The harsh inconvenient truth that the rest of the world doesn't care much about what inspires or motivates you, and the *product* of most careers people undertake out of love or passion doesn't actually help other people very much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Most home cooks who cook for the love of cooking could not survive cooking for big groups of people in a restaurant, much less a communal dining hall To make that work you have to do all this shit to be more efficient that makes cooking no longer fun or creative, but work
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Most home gardens planted with love and care don't even make enough food to actually feed the one person who planted it To make it into a working farm takes the fun out of it and adds all these chores and hard choices that make it work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Even in purely creative fields this is the dynamic We all know this by now Millions of people churn out billions of words of free fiction and nonfiction memoir and analysis for no compensation every day And it's all unreadable garbage
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