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-21 points

Having to work to survive is the default state of nature, unless you are a baby or an elder. It doesn’t mean you’re oppressed.

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What about our modern world makes you think humanity exsists in a default state of nature?

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We don’t live in a post-scarcity society, so the rules of nature still apply. People need food, water, shelter, energy and someone has to work to provide those things.

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My fellow Lemmy user, we dont live in a post-scarity world because profits matter more than people in our Capitalist Society. We could live in a post-scarity world, but that would come at the cost of profits for the 1% who do effectively zero work.

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18 points

And yet, there’s a class, that neither me or you belong to, who dosen’t need to work a day of their life to survive.

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5 points

Sounds like a parasite. We’re supposed to kill those, right?

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And yet many of them do anyway. And what percent of that class has never worked a day in their life? Most of them probably have years or decades of experience in their career and had to work hard to get to where they’re at.

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11 points

Lol, lmao even

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Maybe you didn’t read the entirely of OP picture. “If you HAVE to work to survive you are working class”. Some of them still work, to keep their power and privileges, or to pursue their personal needs on the arts and other alike.

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The point is they don’t need to work. Sure, if I didn’t need to work for money then I would probably get bored and find something to do, but it’s not same as selling your labour because you have to.

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14 points

I don’t see where she said this makes you oppressed.

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I think we’re lumping different kinds of “work” here. But even if we accept the premise, what would that say about people who who don’t need to work? Are they unnatural?

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