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natecox@programming.dev 23 hours agoNah, fuck this.
If we were allowed to do just what is necessary for survival we would spend way, way less time on it than we do working now. Picking weeds from a crop just big enough to support a family does not take 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year. Picking berries does not require you to check with a supervisor before you’re allowed to pee during working hours. We live in a form of indentured servitude, which eats most of our waking hours and provides a host of genuine physical and mental health issues.
The sentiment in the comment I’m responding to is reductionist nonsense borne of corporate brainwashing.
This shit has nothing to do with “a job should be sunshine and rainbows” and everything to do with “working a 60 hour work week to displace more wealth into the hands of a few people is not and should not be seen as fine”.
merc@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Sure, bud.
Sure, bud. I guess you’ve never met a farmer?
Sure, bud. That famous form of indentured servitude where you get nights and weekends off, and are free to change bosses at any time.
natecox@programming.dev 23 hours ago
I guess one gets real accustomed to the taste of boot.
merc@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I guess one has spent too much time in church or movies or something, believing that there’s some utopia where berries gratefully fall off bushes into our waiting hands, if only the durn gubmint, or frickin capitalists would get out of our way.
natecox@programming.dev 18 hours ago
My dude, I live on a hobby farm. Complete with livestock. I have giant blackberry bushes.
But please tell me more about how sitting at a desk all day making money for people who don’t know you exist is just so natural. Modern day berry picking even.