If you want to live a bronze age life, you can work a bronze age schedule. Sell your possessions, buy a couple acres in Bumfuck, NW, build a log cabin, and live off the land.
A huge chunk of that 8hr workday finances the difference in lifestyle between then and now. You live in a home free of pests, insulated and climate controlled, with unlimited clean water at your fingertips, and wires that fuel unfathomable feats of automation and communication. We’re talking to each other on boxes of minerals painstakingly engineered to fulfill countless purposes.
Get rid of the phones, computers, video games, televisions, air conditioners, water heaters, dish and clothes washers, other various appliances, transportation, medicine, manufactured textiles, infrastructure, entertainment, food and other sundry services, etc., and you don’t have to work all that long to cover your nut.
I’m a Marxist in that I don’t think Capitalism is the end of human progress, and the time is nigh. I’m also a Marxist in that I think capitalism is basically an improvement on what came before. It’s run its course, and will hopefully be displaced soon, but that doesn’t mean I’m not getting a better return on effort than my ancestors.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If you want to live a bronze age life, you can work a bronze age schedule. Sell your possessions, buy a couple acres in Bumfuck, NW, build a log cabin, and live off the land.
A huge chunk of that 8hr workday finances the difference in lifestyle between then and now. You live in a home free of pests, insulated and climate controlled, with unlimited clean water at your fingertips, and wires that fuel unfathomable feats of automation and communication. We’re talking to each other on boxes of minerals painstakingly engineered to fulfill countless purposes.
Get rid of the phones, computers, video games, televisions, air conditioners, water heaters, dish and clothes washers, other various appliances, transportation, medicine, manufactured textiles, infrastructure, entertainment, food and other sundry services, etc., and you don’t have to work all that long to cover your nut.
I’m a Marxist in that I don’t think Capitalism is the end of human progress, and the time is nigh. I’m also a Marxist in that I think capitalism is basically an improvement on what came before. It’s run its course, and will hopefully be displaced soon, but that doesn’t mean I’m not getting a better return on effort than my ancestors.