If not for capitalism we could man positions with an adequate amount of workers and reduce the work hours. Instead all jobs are understaffed underpaid and jobseekers struggle to find employment. What a joke of a system.

Moments are the elements of profit

Marx really opened my eyes to how vitally important time is to capital. Whether it’s squeezing more time out of workers, speeding up production processes, or reducing the time it takes for a capitalist’s money to return to them… arguably time, motion, and speed is what capitalism is all about. And none of this speeding things up really benefits us workers. It’s all done in the service of accumulating more capital and profit for capitalists, that’s all.

I feel every word of this and I say this as someone who's been to war, been homeless l, gone blind....

Things can get better and I hope they do for you.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. In a way they have brought me comfort of all things.

We all struggle and all struggles are real. ✊

yep. its such an insidious thing too, it even invades non-work activities and everyone's whole lifestyle. When I finally get a free day I usually dont even know what to do with it or how to relax

fuck i relate to all of this. i can't turn it off most of the time.

i like to feel competant at my job and despite it being a fuck i mostly try to do good work so my co-workers don't get screwed over.

when i was a manager it was my only real standing rule: basically solidarity or else, fuck the company, look out for each other

but even after i switched positions it's the same. case counts/hr, no time for anything, doing a 50/hr a week job in 40. getting bitched at about OT. it's been hard but lately if my trucks are too big (say a 4 to 5 hr truck) and i was only able to get started 3 hrs before shift over i just have to walk away.

everything is so intense i can't even talk to anyone and probably come across as an asshole. there should be reasonable slack in jobs, people should have time to dick around. otherwise when things pick up or something goes wrong there is no give at all. but as well all know the squeeze is here and it's only going to get tighter and tighter to get every second of wrung out.

it also makes my ADHD go crazy but partly it helps me with insane multitasking sometimes. but yeah humans aren't meant to work like this. i'd love to have a future socialist utopia job where everything is worked slowly, safely and deliberately because there are no "labor costs" and we are all working large meaningful megaprojects or supporting those projects to save the future. a world of "road crews" as in 3 people watching 1 person work and then taking turns lol or for the workhorses just short 20 hr weeks so we dont burn out

You should stop worrying about OT, for one. Jobs take as long as they take, next time your boss chews you out, just say "Oh okay, so you would prefer I just go home after 8 hours, even if there are a couple things left to do?". Not as a gotcha, just a legitimate question. Just don't care about whether you work 8 hours or 8.5, and do whichever he says he wants you to do. Find out which side he prefers, and do that.

I was thinking recently what it would be like if we replaced all aeroplanes with airships instead; like helium-filled zeppelins. If it meant saving the planet, surely everyone could tolerate a slower journey, after all, people used to spend days and weeks on ships travelling across the world.
The only real obstacle to this is the system's incessant need to extract as much of everyone's labour power as possible, not just over the course of a work day, but over their entire lives, meaning that any reduction in speed of travel, for instance, is intolerable, as it results in 'wasted time' that is not actively being spent on exploitation.

We have enough productive power to ensure an ample quality of life for every human being, several times over. It's the most devilish of paradoxes that expounds how as technology advances, returns get faster and faster, and yields get higher, we all just seem to be more immiserated.

If we were to cut out most of the meat industry, to design things to last so that we wouldn't need to replace all our clothing, electronics, appliances, and buildings all the time, and to live in a density where we could access everything within a short walk or bike ride from the nearest transit stop, it would take maybe one fifth of our present extraction and also one fifth of our present labor inputs to live well. Granted, rebuilding around density with durable and sustainable materials would be a massive endeavor.

95% of all this could be done with pre-transistor technology. A plurality of it might even be done with late-medieval technology. I don't think taking this stance makes one an agrarian or hunter-gatherer utopian.

This sounds just like the deliverators job description at the beginning of snow crash.

"You have to do everything quickly, the bank is closing soon. God, why does everything go so fast? People and their savings - all so fast!"

accurate translation.

Dreams have to be mourned to understand That the last bourgeois justice is dead

L'unica would mean "the only", but "the last" is a fitting context-based translation. However, "si è spenta" in the wider context of preceding lines would probably best be translated to "has expired" (literally: turned itself off. Like a lightbulb), as in: has to be discarded. Apparently it's not "in sogni", but "insonni" (while suffering from insomnia), so crying while being unable to sleep instead of crying in your sleep. The message is almost the same.

the rest of the translation is accurate.

That song is beautiful. A reason I'll likely never be able to play in bars is all the longs I listen to and play are depressing like that.

Gotta go fast