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[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

More leisure time would mean more time to become educated and/or form real bonds within communities (again).

People breaking free of the "cuck mindset" that is prevalent under capitalism of "it is natural to have unaccountable, non-elected, non-workers own the company/corp and steal profits from workers" is the ultimate fear.

I'm not sure WHY that mindset hasn't already broken, everyone inherently knows stockholders and basically everyone above a direct manager of workers does jack shit, everyone knows this, yet they don't go to the logical step of "we could just eliminate the people doing nothing, take their ill gotten capital, and make them workers too..." Very quickly societies everywhere could reduce overall working hours once commodity production purely for profit of an owner class is no longer the priority of every industry.

That doesn't mean not producing ANY commodities, but the ones which are produced would not be purposely shit-quality, built with obsolescence in mind to force more production sooner. They would be designed to "last forever" within reason.

Yes it would mean less labor (bring this up IRL and listen to people howl over this).... and that's a good thing AS LONG AS labor has already taken the reigns of government power, seized all industries and resource extraction, and has a (true) democratic government in place that ensures the meaningful existence of all people.

Cummunism

Unfortunately, we seem to be rocketing towards a future more like that (kinda shitty but good idea) movie "Elysium" from like 10 years ago. Where the ultra wealthy live almost like humanities' gods, literally up in the heavens, because they hoarded all the life improving technologies for themselves. We already see some level of that happening if you look at the entirely separated-from-reality life that billionaires live while shooting themselves up with crazy serums to turn into jacked bodybuilders at the age of 55.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

More leisure time would mean more time to become educated and/or form real bonds within communities (again).

People breaking free of the "cuck mindset" that is prevalent under capitalism of "it is natural to have unaccountable, non-elected, non-workers own the company/corp and steal profits from workers" is the ultimate fear.

I'm convinced that it would not. The effect would be similar to providing cheap housing and nice socdem reforms on welfare etc. People would just be living better, we know from experience that people living better translates to less revolutionary energy rather than more.

this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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