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MelodiousFunk ( MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net )  to Antiwork@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Effort vs "work"

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Effort vs "work"

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MelodiousFunk ( MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net )  to Antiwork@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Free_Opinions ( Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ) 
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    As if you don’t get anything in return for the effort you put in and are just doing charity to benefit someone else.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun ( Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ) 
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      “In exchange for making me rich, I grant you the privilege of having enough money to pay your bills and maybe go to disneyland once in a while.”

      That’s not a return on your effort for your own benefit; it’s quite literally serfdom with extra steps. “You harvest me 1,000 acres and I’ll let you keep two acres to take care of your family.”

      • Free_Opinions ( Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ) 
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        If you’re not being paid adequately you’re free to go work for someone else. I don’t get why people act as if they’re slave labor. If you don’t like working for someone else then start your own company.

        • Hemingways_Shotgun ( Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ) 
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          The entire system is designed to make the second part of that statement uniquely difficult.

          Billionaires don’t stay billionaires by letting other people join their club.

          • Free_Opinions ( Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ) 
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            Maybe you should set more realistic goals than trying to become a billionaire.

            • GoodEye8 ( GoodEye8@lemm.ee ) 
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              And how do billionaires become billionaires if it’s not a realistic goal?

              • Tiresia ( Tiresia@slrpnk.net ) 
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                Inheritance or gambling.

        • chunkystyles ( chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ) 
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          Free_Opinions. You really do get what you pay for, huh?

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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not “reform work” but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.

To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. …the love of work… Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of ‘work’, in the unwearied talk of the ‘blessing of work’, I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc

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