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How is this not the standard view?
(sh.itjust.works)
Temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome. "I can't vote against what the rich people want, because what if I become rich some day?" Completely missing that they, in the course of their entire lives, will not make as much as what most of the rich assholes of the world make in a day/hour/minute/second.
EAT THE RICH.
You forgot the part where rich make sure that poor remain poor.
Hard to believe people work sixty hours. Got a decent living over here in Europe and am currently reducing from 40 to 35, just because.
Maybe you forgot to type '/s'?
No, why would you work 60 hours a week?
Because rent is going up 30% a year while pay is going up 3%.
Because you paid out the wazoo for it
Lol
It seems you are the only one who is laughing about that :)
Everyone doesn't live in 1st world countries.
I'm in one of those places where people barely make a living even after pretty much working to death. I am still a student and I have been lucky enough to be born into a more fortunate family. I don't have firsthand experience, so I will give an example.
A good example is my teachers. They have a 6 to 5 job 6 days of the week, and their monthly salary is equivalent to 865USD.
The fact that I can use the internet and tech as much as I want is a blessing
the amount of equivalent USD is mostly meaningless in regular life. What matters is what you can buy in that place for how much they make. And also what you have to buy and what goes besides your paycheck (socialised healthcare in scandinavia vs higher wages in usa for example).
For example within Europe: yes, wages are way lower in eastern EU countries than in some western EU countries, but so is the price of coffee, the rent etc. That only becomes tangible when you travel.
It's an underdeveloped country, everything is imported so prices are much higher than what you'd expect. The government is corrupt, there is no free public healthcare or education.
You simply can not sustain a family without having one of your family members in a foreign country as the breadwinner. If you can't go abroad, it's grueling poverty for you, good luck caring for your sick parents or sending your kids to school. Even our nation's leaders send their children abroad for studies/job.
Yeah, the USD equivalent doesn't mean much if your nation actually has something to offer in exchange for your low wages, but that is definetly not the case everywhere.
That's why "Why would anyone ever work over 60 hours?" first seemed like a sarcastic comment to me.
Everywhere isn't europe or america guys
Basic services should all be free to any human.
No. Time to privatize water, you commie!!! /s
Yeah, the spirit of your comment i agree with, but not the letter.
Nothing should be completely free, because nothing is free. Water needs processing, electricity needs a grid, sewage needs treatment, etc.
Basic things should be affordable for all: housing, water, electricity, internet, food etc.
But "free" creates incentives to be careless with resources. Which is counterproductive to making sure they are available for all at affordable prices.
Without (real or artificial) scarcity profits would go down, and if profits ~~go down~~ stop growing the-best-possible-system© just collapses.
Because old people aren't looking at tweets like this.
It's just our generation that has this as a standard view, and now we're reaching the point where our generation will take over.
And there's going to be some changes, let me tell you.
It's not a generational thing. It's an economic class thing.
Rad name btw!
The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed.- William Gibson
Many great reasons raised to explain why the current system persists so its clear to me that there isn't just a single roadblock. One reason, in my mind, is the challenge of reaching consensus. Even in small groups this can be problematic and more so for an entire population. It frustrates me no end that often small disagreements in the details of an idea is enough to prevent any positive change, even though at a macro scale the idea is good and universally supported.
Because capitalism demands infinite growth, forever, which means even when we're post-scarcity we need to keep working forever to continue growing beyond what is necessary.
There ought to have been a more definitive goal to work towards...
at this point in time.... All hunger, all deprivation, all poverty
Is because SOMEONE wants it so. Not because circumstances make it so
1984
Propaganda
Do you know how long it takes for crops to grow?
What are you implying with that comment?
That long work days are still necessary, technology isnt fully there to automate everything
But the farmer is not eating all the crops them self. And it doesn’t have to be one farmer doing all the work.
have you seen modern farming? these days there are tractors that can be set to follow a route and the driver just has to monitor things.
yeah it's not completely automated, but it's extremely disingenuous to imply that we're closer to traditional farming than we are to full automation.
Because inequality creates incentive. The bigger the difference between the bulk of the society and the top percentages of earners the more people are willing to risk to reach the top. That's why there are more successful startups in the US than in Scandinavia.
It's a global rat race and the US is "winning".
Because every man-hour freed by automation is a man-hour of opportunity to exploit and profit elsewhere.
Always remember the dishwasher and why it was invented. Then apply that to EVERYTHING man-made. It's alway to save time, for someone who is not you.
I'm glad that dishwashers exist though. Washing dishes fucks up my skin and I couldn't pay someone to do it for me.
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