• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Because “Work” is just effort for some stranger’s benefit; a CEO or Corporation. Whereas the result of effort enriches you and/or the people you love.

    • Zement@feddit.nl
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      2 years ago

      I feel like below a certain wage threshold, jobs are made shitty on purpose.

      There is no need for a cashier to stand all the time, a small and high chair would suffice. There are boards used by mechanics to slide around on the shop floor when working beneath cars, but there are no carts for workers filling up lower shelves. Etc.

      I worked in engineering and now process management and I could exit most B2C shops screaming of frustration for their inefficiency and spiteful brutalism.

      Ergonomics is one of the main factors for worker health, happiness and productivity, but if you have literal wage slaves, you can even save the peanuts. True Greed.

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Have you ever tried to produce food, though. It is surely not free, and I refer you to the labour theory of value (LTV) for a straightforward explanation of that.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      Food is literally free here in sweden at least, thanks to the right to roam. You have the legal right to pick mushrooms and berries in the wild.

      • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        There is not enough wild growing food to feed the entire human population. You are welcome to live in the woods and survive on only berries and mushrooms go right ahead.

        Agriculture is hard work. Hard work has value and therefore the resulting product of agriculture (food) has value and is not free.

        I am not some capitalist pig, I generally agree with anti-work sentiment and am pro work reform. I am working class, working to live, if i dont work I’ll be homeless in 2 months. But also I realise that if you build an extremist ideology based upon blatant falsehoods like that in the posted image, it is doomed to fail.

      • DeadTestament@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Would you say there are enough wild berries and mushrooms that can be foraged to sustain the population of Sweden?

      • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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        2 years ago

        On virtually any job you’ll earn enough in an hour to buy more mushrooms and berries than you can pick in that same time.