I feel like companion animals aren't exactly a "luxury." Obviously in world with more humane work laws, you won't necessarily need dog walkers (since we won't be working 8 hr days anymore so you'll be able to come home and walk your dog yourself). I'm also not gonna pretend that if you're working class you have the ability to pay for a dog walker.
However, unless we're never allowed to take trips away from home or spend more than 6hrs at whatever job you have, you might need a dog walker someday. As it is now, sure it's :bourgeoisie: as fuck. That doesn't mean it has to be. Working class people own dogs too. Having dog walkers that care about animals helps animal welfare - dogs not being cooped up all day (or worse, put out in the yard) - is a good thing.
Luxury is a hilariously vague term here. Is having a child a luxury then? Free childcare is DEFINITELY a luxury. Or is it not since eventually they will be future labor power? What about reading? Is that a luxury? Your argument is literally buying into capitalist ideology. The goal is not to beg for crumbs but change things and if we're going to change things we need to imagine a world where something like pet ownership isn't seen as a luxury just because it's unproductive but instead a human pursuit of companionship in a world we are alienated from our labor.
I mean pet ownership goes across class lines. While currently dog walkers/pet sitters are definitely a luxury for working class people, they shouldn't be.
Work is work. It's being forced to sell your labor that makes you working class and creates the material conditions for solidarity. Trying to divide workers between those that do "valuable" work and those who don't is what reactionaries do to try and divide us.
I agree on principle, but work that exists only to ease the cost of a luxury and facilitate consumption isn't valuable.
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Another good point here.
I feel like companion animals aren't exactly a "luxury." Obviously in world with more humane work laws, you won't necessarily need dog walkers (since we won't be working 8 hr days anymore so you'll be able to come home and walk your dog yourself). I'm also not gonna pretend that if you're working class you have the ability to pay for a dog walker.
However, unless we're never allowed to take trips away from home or spend more than 6hrs at whatever job you have, you might need a dog walker someday. As it is now, sure it's :bourgeoisie: as fuck. That doesn't mean it has to be. Working class people own dogs too. Having dog walkers that care about animals helps animal welfare - dogs not being cooped up all day (or worse, put out in the yard) - is a good thing.
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Luxury is a hilariously vague term here. Is having a child a luxury then? Free childcare is DEFINITELY a luxury. Or is it not since eventually they will be future labor power? What about reading? Is that a luxury? Your argument is literally buying into capitalist ideology. The goal is not to beg for crumbs but change things and if we're going to change things we need to imagine a world where something like pet ownership isn't seen as a luxury just because it's unproductive but instead a human pursuit of companionship in a world we are alienated from our labor.
I mean pet ownership goes across class lines. While currently dog walkers/pet sitters are definitely a luxury for working class people, they shouldn't be.
Almost all work is not valuable. That's been established for a long goddamn time. Producerism is vulgar Marxism.
Work is work. It's being forced to sell your labor that makes you working class and creates the material conditions for solidarity. Trying to divide workers between those that do "valuable" work and those who don't is what reactionaries do to try and divide us.