Similarly, it's bizarre that, despite the economy being progressively automated and digitalised, people are having to work longer and retire later. These are the results of having a whole social structure centred around accumulating wealth for the owners of capital rather than improving standards of living.
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny. Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work.
Gaesatae_ on July 23rd, 2017 at 23:57 UTC »
Similarly, it's bizarre that, despite the economy being progressively automated and digitalised, people are having to work longer and retire later. These are the results of having a whole social structure centred around accumulating wealth for the owners of capital rather than improving standards of living.
SilverBolt52 on July 24th, 2017 at 02:27 UTC »
Seize the robots of production.
voidesque on July 24th, 2017 at 03:10 UTC »
For those who haven't read it: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/ch01.htm