• Muad'DibberMA
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    3 years ago

    Thx for this, good article. Reminds me of this one on some of Bucky Fuller’s ideas on work.

    “We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      93 years ago

      Yeah it’s a nonsensical puritan ethic, and I think it’s also possible to argue that this is actually driving the climate disaster. We need to be doing degrowth and we should be minimizing work and production. The idea that everybody has to work just for the sake of doing work is directly at odds with that.

    • lemmygrabber
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      63 years ago

      Worst part is this mentality is so ingrained in general mentality in capitalist society that people are appalled at the idea that someone might get their daily bread without having “earned” their fair share by slaving away for an already rich dude. It also shows in the anti-welfare ideology where people think giving handouts will make people lazy though it is a scientifically debunked myth.

  • @Cysioland
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    43 years ago

    After the days like today you don’t have to convince me, lol.