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      1 year ago

      Except they don’t need money, so it’s still a free choice they’re making.

      When you don’t need money to have a life worth living and all needs are already provided, any choice to work for money is a free one.

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              1 year ago

              If there were still wages they would only be something extra as a reward, rather than something workers need to live.

              Personal property, remember?

              It’s not unimaginable for there to be no wages at all, though. No one has to pay me to clean my house, cook my food, or grow my own garden. No one had to pay me to help clean up the trailer park when we were hit by a huge storm that knocked down a bunch of trees. Truly voluntary work for no reward other than good feelings and social esteem shouldn’t be underestimated.

              That’s… probably not something that would be realistic for people like us who grew up under wage slavery, though. We probably do need rewards to do truly difficult work because we’ve been traumatized by our material conditions to associate working hard with suffering.

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                  1 year ago

                  Misanthropy. Humans wouldn’t have gotten this far if we were all greedy selfish assholes. That’s the result of trauma of living under capitalism.

                  Communism never fails on its own. It is hunted down and destroyed by the US lol