Work would be very different if we received anywhere near the full value of our labor. Most people would be very happy to work the few hours a week it would take to provide for ourselves in that situation. But our work is exploited, and no escape is allowed so as to keep the pressure in the system. We will always be fighting inflation so that the bulk of the value stays in the correct hands.
I think at this point it should be 3 six-hour days per week. 100+ years of technological progress increasing productivity, and the number of people’s needs that can be covered by the same amount of work.
One main reason for keeping the pressure in the system is that whichever global superpower exploits their population the most effectively has the upper hand in most fronts. If there wasn’t a competition for world dominance then we could all relax a bit more. Til then we are forced into vigilance.
This sounds like something I would hear in Russia. Those who have at least fraction of functioning brain will ask question “If every citizen will be grinded in name of superpower then what everyone will get? 2 by 2 in the nearest forest and a wooden cross.”
When state acquires its own will that contradists of majoroty of own citizen, it is not a state. Maybe it is Prutin’s mafia, maybe it is China’s puppet, but not a state.
Work would be very different if we received anywhere near the full value of our labor. Most people would be very happy to work the few hours a week it would take to provide for ourselves in that situation. But our work is exploited, and no escape is allowed so as to keep the pressure in the system. We will always be fighting inflation so that the bulk of the value stays in the correct hands.
Id love life if I could work 4 or 3 days a week. I’m mostly productive for 3 days anyway
I think at this point it should be 3 six-hour days per week. 100+ years of technological progress increasing productivity, and the number of people’s needs that can be covered by the same amount of work.
One main reason for keeping the pressure in the system is that whichever global superpower exploits their population the most effectively has the upper hand in most fronts. If there wasn’t a competition for world dominance then we could all relax a bit more. Til then we are forced into vigilance.
This sounds like something I would hear in Russia. Those who have at least fraction of functioning brain will ask question “If every citizen will be grinded in name of superpower then what everyone will get? 2 by 2 in the nearest forest and a wooden cross.”
When state acquires its own will that contradists of majoroty of own citizen, it is not a state. Maybe it is Prutin’s mafia, maybe it is China’s puppet, but not a state.