That's fair, but it's also our job to build our own communities, whether jobs are there or not
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Replying to @ryangrim
Impossible to sustain and build communities when those communities are under attack and can't defend themselves.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
I'm saying there's no law that insists you must organize a community around labor and work
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Replying to @ryangrim
There's no law saying humans need air and food or social contact.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
There are biological laws that say that. But you could organize a community around family, art, leisure, sports, learning, etc.
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The anthropological literature is replete with examples. Work doesn't have to be everything, unless we insist that it is
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Replying to @ryangrim
We organize communities around shared myths, like the notion of work. Still, that it's invented doesn't make it not real.
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And that we have organized an attack on many communities through our political system to help foreigners (another myth) is also real.
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My point is wealth in the US has risen a ton the last 40 years (marked by trade deficits). The wealth has not been shared, but it's there.
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Replying to @ryangrim
I know. But it's increasingly... not there. Check out cancer drug shortages, for example. Or this.https://www.thenation.com/article/how-america-could-collapse/ …
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Yeah. It isn't. It's hard to convey the loss of wealth that's going on right now. Real wealth, like the ability to sustain life kind.
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