Comment on Anon questions the epidemic

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I do think people living under capitalism sometimes forget the human condition exists beyond the economic condition.

  More free time, less economic precarity, better health, better education, a place to call home. All of that is great. But you still need to go out and meet people.

  Socialism won’t make you touch grass.

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  • UnequalExchange@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Socialism will make it WAAAAY easier rto touch grass and to ‘touch’ o ther people (to deal with your touch starvation) and even to touch people’s hearts cause youll work less than half of the hours you do right now. The 40 hour work week is to kept to keep you tired ,unimaginative, disconnected from your neighbours, yoyr community, and even disconnected from your family. We have no need to work 40 hoirs a week to keep society running. We have a lot oof things that can take care of most o f the labour we do nowadays OR a lot of the 40 hour work week jobs are just bullshit jobs like stockbrokimg or being trappped in an office wasting time.

    And also in a socialistic society, the human condition is placed at the centre of everythinng that is planned or done. If the people in a socialistic society collectively agree and their research and researchers also collectively agree through theor data that there is a ‘loneliness epidemic AND that the loneliness epidemiic is worsening the human condition of the people’? The poeple of that socialistic society will collectively put in the work to permanently change society so that there will probably never be another loneliness epidemic whilst fixing the current loneliness epidemic.

    THATS how socialism will work for problems like these.

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