• PixeIOrange@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Labour is fine. Just not 40, 50 or 60 hours a week. 10-15, maybe 20 hours should be way enough to live a worryfree life. Change my mind.

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    8 months ago

    While I agree with the sentiment, saying that it’s been hundreds of years in the making is just wrong. If anything, labor rights are at historic highs, and that’s been centuries in the making.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Capitalism is supposed to put the worker at the top

        It doesn’t because the people with capital make decisions

        Christianity straight up opposes wealth, but it doesn’t play out that way because people with wealth make the decisions

        It’s the same for every system/ideology because a power vacuum will always be filled

        • olivebranch@lemmy.ca
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          8 months ago

          You are assuming someone always has to be in power over someone else. Historically most communities where run without anyone in charge, but with direct democracies. It just became harder with bigger cities, because it was harder to communicate with everyone else. Perhaps we can change that with the Internet.

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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            8 months ago

            Historically you are incorrect

            If you don’t put power over someone else then someone comes in and puts it over you

            The vehicle for change was just how easily that other person can get to you

            You can go back to bronze age kings to demonstrate how what you said was false in all of recorded history

            • olivebranch@lemmy.ca
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              8 months ago

              There is a good yt channel talking about egalitarian societies in prehistory called What is Politics

              • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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                8 months ago

                If you want to go far enough back that we use theory

                Then we can say prehistoric nomadic humans still had fights with other clans and territorial disputes because our genetic ancestors (chimps/monkeys/apes) also have those

                And if you were there with a gun, would you be able to dominate them? If so then you are able to put power over people without a power structure

                • olivebranch@lemmy.ca
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                  8 months ago

                  Territorial disputes where only common after agriculture in humans, because territory wasn’t as important before as mutual aid.