mercure_in_retrograde
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The Humiliation of Work
Imagine a farm with ten workers on it. To sustain themselves, each worker has to work 5 days per week. Now let’s say that through mechanical inventions, the efficiency of the farm has so incr…
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It's a good commentary on work under capitalism and the commodification of humans in general.
I also think that capitalism chips away at people's individuality to make them fall in line (you can't wear your own style of clothing at work and have to tone it down if your style is too flamboyant, stuff like that). But I'm less pessimistic than the author and do believe everyone is unique and can bring something different to the table.
That being said, I don't think blaming everything on institutions as if they were living entities is totally fair. Yes, 1% of the world population owns half of the world's wealth. But the 99% are greater in number and are complying to their rules.
Anyway, would love to hear if any of you has something interesting to add to this,