No one “makes money” they transfer it.
When people say “Eh, it’s a living” are they referring to simply being alive? I think people sometimes look too much into some idioms.
In the natural world, you don’t actually deserve to be alive and need to compete for it. In societies I would argue it’s what the society can put up with. You don’t deserve to be alive, you simply are or are not … or the many thousands of states in between. By default, you are going to need to adapt regardless to keep alive. I can see “living” referring to that adaptation, but then again, I can understand polysemy.
Life isn’t exactly easy for most of nature. Animals starve and are killed continuously. It has been the same for most of human history. We may have overcome challenges regarding having sufficient resources, but we haven’t overcome all of the obstacles that our selfish animal nature continues to produce in society.
I thought this was about to go a very different way at the beginning.
There are a great many things I would like to do, but don’t do, simply because it is not economical. Even when I find employment doing something I enjoy, I am forced to do it at an increasingly fast pace, and I know that what I’m making is low quality garbage that will be discarded quickly. How can one be expected to take pride in their work under those circumstances?
Capitalism murders your soul, and blames you for being soulless.
And most of the work that actually contributes something to society has shit wages, while the jobs that don’t contribute anything or are detrimental to society have insanely high wages.
I’m secretly hoping that AI takes out banking jobs and VC first, just so that that the moneylickers have to confront their new reality of who they are without it
I remember as a kid being told god hates us and we have to spend our lives earning his love. Like wtf? Im automatically hated by being born? This is the same energy as the posts if not the source of the belief.
Was it the cosmic being, or some aliens pretending (or being mistranslated) to be god?
Still… either way, it’s still wrong.
Similar to “make money”, it’s an insidious Orwellian mislead.
“Make money” =~= “profit” =~= “wealth extraction”.
There are a few folks who don’t deserve to be alive… Unfortunately they don’t need to “earn a living” as they happened to be born silver spoon in hand…
I mean … in a way? When one looks at it from nature’s point of view, no organism has some “given right to live”, all organisms try to survive. But do we, as a society, really want to live like animals, each for themself, without empathy, without solidarity?
So nearly got an upvote from me, but then you had to ruin it with a false dichotomy. Better ways
Oh, and also, I just caught before clicking reply, “given the right to live” is a moved goal post.
You sound fun. Can I have an upvote?
I’d argue that our social capabilities are our nature, rather than an exception to nature.
Massive disagree, we exist within nature not separate from it.
Human sociality doesn’t supersede nature because it’s an embedded system within nature.
I think… That’s what I said?
Yeah I definitely responded to the wrong person, my bad
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in 10,000 of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” — Buckminster Fuller
I remember talking with a fellow Hungarian who happened to be a “moderate” conservative, and he told me there’s nothing wrong with Fidesz making our country for cheap labor, because some of those cheap laborers can be promoted to be middle managers in the factories.
i fucking volunteer to labor for humanity. Fucking pick me when we get the socialism please.
Isaac Asimov said that in the future one third of the population would be scientists working on new discoveries; one third would be engineers mananging all the technology; and one third would be entertainers.
Well, I think we are on track with the entertainers part, at least.
Man, those pro life people will be so mad when they find out
Lol same
(Jokingly) Hey! Get (that meme template) out yo gotdamn mouth!
