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minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·edit-23 days agoThese things should not be directly associated with work Of course rewarding people for work is good in some sense in every economic system, just putting it in the sense of being paid just makes it very stuck in that sort of capitalist mindset. Other economic systems can exist.
minus-squareBombOmOm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days ago These things should not be directly associated with work Unfortunately for humanity, food, shelter, and transportation doesn’t place itself in front of you. People have to work to make/gather those things. I would also love to live in a place where nobody had to work in order for shelter to exist. But, someone has to work to build the home. I would love to live in a place where nobody had to work for food to exist. But someone has to grow and gather the food. I would love to live in a place where nobody had to work for cars/trains to exist, but someone has to work to build the car. Other economic systems can exist. And in those systems, people will still be working for food, shelter, transportation. People like being paid for their work.
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·3 days ago And in those systems, people will still be working for food, shelter, transportation. People like being paid for their work. “Source: it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
These things should not be directly associated with work
Of course rewarding people for work is good in some sense in every economic system, just putting it in the sense of being paid just makes it very stuck in that sort of capitalist mindset.
Other economic systems can exist.
Unfortunately for humanity, food, shelter, and transportation doesn’t place itself in front of you. People have to work to make/gather those things.
I would also love to live in a place where nobody had to work in order for shelter to exist. But, someone has to work to build the home.
I would love to live in a place where nobody had to work for food to exist. But someone has to grow and gather the food.
I would love to live in a place where nobody had to work for cars/trains to exist, but someone has to work to build the car.
And in those systems, people will still be working for food, shelter, transportation. People like being paid for their work.
“Source: it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”