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Originally Posted by J. Falcon
Don't forget eating, going to the bathroom, standing in line, getting dressed, etc.
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Good point.
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Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius
There's no excuse for this kind of soul crushing existence in a post-industrial economy. It's the elites that keep us in this state of grinding servility.
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If we had a rational economy, we could enjoy the same standard of living we do now with every able bodied adult working perhaps 15 or 20 hours a week.
You have to figure 75% of the work people do today is bullshit - most of it doesn't benefit anyone in any tangible way. A century ago, if a farmer stopped doing his job, SOMEONE was going to go hungry. If a laborer didn't labor, someone somewhere would do without something. What would happen if your local Starbucks shut down for the day? People might have to go to McDonalds for coffee instead? Most jobs nowadays are like that. Just endless bullshit that at most produces a slight increase in convenience by having such massive redundancy of everything, but at a cost of unfathomable waste.
I'm not saying I know how to create a rational economy or that such a thing is even humanly possible... it's just a trip thinking about how inefficient our civilization is and how wasteful it is, and how many people are deprived or overworked needlessly while so much production capacity idles and a tiny fraction of people become super wealthy.