you know how people, especially on twitter, try and share their absolute dogshit takes without a care for humility, just unbribled stubbornness

everybody seem so full of themselves and I just can't bring myself to trust anyone unless they show a hint of doubt over their own thoughts, and that's flat out absent from most social media

idk, I don't think I did a good jb describing what I feel, it's hard to accurately put into words

but like, do you have stuff you usually keep to yourself, because like you know the thought isn't well rounded or something and you don't want to say something incorrect. or like interrogations about stuff you can't really answer by yourself

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    They don't have to be done under the brutal conditions of capitalism. Look at farm labor - those jobs would probably still suck but they would suck a lot less if you weren't busting your ass on threat of being fired and you could take a break and just hang out in the shade or in the A/C and drink somethin cold and had a standard of living like a computer programmer

    • darkmaster006 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

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      Imagine if jobs were actually rewarded in proportion to the effort they took, rather than according to how much institutional power it gives the worker. WoofWoof91he/him/any pronoun•

      What are you, some kind of communist? Owlhe/him/any pronoun•

      A lot of those jobs could be made more pleasant with a good standard of living and low hours. I genuinely like cleaning bathrooms and carrying heavy objects; wouldn’t want to do that 8 hours a day for barely enough money to exist in our society, but a few hours a day and my current standard of living? Yeah.

      I hate farm labor but I assume it’s someone’s jam. PureIdeology•

      I like digging holes and day drinking so it’s either farm labor or field geology for me. WoofWoof91he/him/any pronoun•

      If I was paid a decent wage, I would be a janitor or a garbage collector in a heartbeat, i don’t find cleaning and maintenance work all that boring, and garbage collection is a half day job

      This made me rememember a great passage from Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread' that says exactly the same: It is evident that a factory could be made as healthy and pleasant as a scientific laboratory And it is no less evident that it would be advantageous to make it so. In a spacious and well-ventilated factory work is better; it is easy to introduce small ameliorations, of which each represents an economy of time or of manual labour. And if most of the workshops we know are foul and unhealthy, it is because the workers are of no account in the organization of factories, and because the most absurd waste of human energy is its distinctive feature.

      Nevertheless, now and again, we already find some factories so well managed that it would be a real pleasure to work in them, if the work, be it well understood, were not to last more than four or five hours a day and if every one had the possibility of varying it according to his tastes.

      Look at this factory, unfortunately consecrated to engines of war. It is perfect as far as regards sanitary and intelligent organization. It occupies fifty English acres of land, fifteen of which are roofed with glass. The pavement of fire-proof bricks is as clean as that of a miner’s cottage, and the glass roof is carefully cleaned by a gang of workmen who do nothing else. In this factory are forged steel ingots or blooms weighing as much as twenty tons; and when you stand thirty feet from the immense furnace, whose flames have a temperature of more than a thousand degrees, you do not guess its presence save when its great jaws open to let out a steel monster. And the monster is handled by only three or four workmen, who now here, now there, open a tap, causing immense cranes to move by pressure of water in the pipes."