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squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The same is true for capitalism too, though.

If you work in your own little company or if you are self-employed, then the “mission” of your work might be important to you and a source of motivation.

But if you work in a huge corporation, hardly anything you do actually matters. If don’t perform at 100% and instead slack off, there are other people doing the same work. And if everyone slacks off, then they just hire more people. And even if the whole department underperforms, there are other departments that rake in the money.

And whether the company thrives or goes under, your input as a lowly grunt wouldn’t have made a difference anyway. Even as a mid-level manager your input wouldn’t have made a difference.

Years of my work at my job can be wiped out with one email from the CEO.

Literally the only difference between capitalism and communism when it comes to that is whether the CEO wipes out my work or the state.

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