Reminder that socialist countries like Cuba or the USSR have historically de jure and de facto guaranteed employment, with worse economic conditions and over a half century ago. Unemployment is a capitalist construct and we can do better than that.
i think we need to get rid of the mentality that work is a moral obligation.
what’s the point in having exponential productivity increase if we are all still expected to work full time or starve.
we could probably just set up a 20 hour week maximum and the economy would still run. just with less profits for the 1%, but they can go fuck themselves with syphilitic cacti.
Just “Marxist” suffices. Judging by your hatred of socialists, that’s probably a slur for you already.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, and explain myself to you:
Labor, according to Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, is the source of value in society and economy. Without labor, there simply is no value.
I envision a society that behaves according to the moral principle that can be summarized as “everyone contributes according to their capabilities, and everyone receives according to their needs”.
Who are those who obtain compensation without work? Landlords, capitalist owners, financial institutions: rentiers and exploiters, in short. I don’t want those in my society.
“refusing to leave”
Where, specifically, did they expect her to go? Being thrown out on the streets at 93 is effectively a death sentence.
not being able to work is a death sentence in America
guess the freedom in america is the “works makes you free” variety
I saw that sentence somewhere in German.
Reminder that socialist countries like Cuba or the USSR have historically de jure and de facto guaranteed employment, with worse economic conditions and over a half century ago. Unemployment is a capitalist construct and we can do better than that.
i think we need to get rid of the mentality that work is a moral obligation.
what’s the point in having exponential productivity increase if we are all still expected to work full time or starve.
we could probably just set up a 20 hour week maximum and the economy would still run. just with less profits for the 1%, but they can go fuck themselves with syphilitic cacti.
That’s up for debate, but my point was about work being a guaranteed universal right, not about it being forced at gunpoint.
It’s only up to debate if someone’s is a capitalist bootlicker.
I’m a communist, so no, the only way to debate this isn’t by being a capitalist bootlicker.
ok.
tankie bootlicker? if I’m off, please provide me a slur to use for you…
actually, besides pronouns, it would be polite to ask people for their slurs.
Just “Marxist” suffices. Judging by your hatred of socialists, that’s probably a slur for you already.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, and explain myself to you:
Labor, according to Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, is the source of value in society and economy. Without labor, there simply is no value.
I envision a society that behaves according to the moral principle that can be summarized as “everyone contributes according to their capabilities, and everyone receives according to their needs”.
Who are those who obtain compensation without work? Landlords, capitalist owners, financial institutions: rentiers and exploiters, in short. I don’t want those in my society.
The cruelty is the point