I’ve been seeing this weird shift in rhetoric, especially in the US lately.
As more and more people realise that China’s government has massive approval ratings and their people are generally happier and more positive about the future than people in the west, the idea of “the west is the best” falls apart more and more. The average westerner can expect things to get worse, while the average Chinese person can expect things to get better and better.
So we’ve seen a shift in rhetoric, instead of things like economic security and government approval ratings being used as measures of quality of life, they are now being used as an example of “authoritarianism” that a popular government, and people being able to afford things like housing and basic necessities is being portrayed as a bad thing, because the west increasingly doesn’t allow for that sort of thing in their countries.
I expect to see things like police brutality and school shootings being pushed as examples of “freedom” soon enough.
I expect to see things like police brutality and school shootings being pushed as examples of “freedom” soon enough.
Already are here and there, “those are just inevitable bad apples that will happen in the system that allow for superior freedoms instead of communist drone brainwashing where you are disappeared before you do anything” no shit this is a real take i seen few times already.
Damn, that is terrifying.
It seems that alot of those comments come from such an individualistic perspective. Understanding that the totality of all workers in a society produce a certain amount of goods and services regardless, and the real question is how those goods and services are distributed. Technology can increase the total number of goods and services per labor output per individual. Also people generally like feeling that they are contributing to society. Why are they fussing over whether one is laboring rather than how the fruits of the labor are distributed. With techological progression you can work 16 hour weeks and just chill and everyone can chill once the work necessary to maintain civilization is satisfied.
With techological progression you can work 16 hour weeks and just chill and everyone can chill once the work necessary to maintain civilization is satisfied.
Oh, what I wouldn’t give for that reality. If I could just get through to people that we only work as much as we do because we must have enough bullshit jobs to satisfy the greed of the capitalists. If we restructured away from shit we don’t need to worrying about socially necessary labors, we could all work a lot less and have a much higher quality of life.
oh my, that was a rollercoaster of emotions for me
