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Please don't read comments until you've read this. It is very short and fast to read. It is radicalizing. It is a good short story to send to your friend who needs to understand what capitalism is. LeGuin wrote this in 1973, cementing her status as Chad Supreme of Fuck Mountain. Bow before her might.
Let's discuss in the comments below.
Thats a bit bleak. You don't need slaves, infact slaves are undesirable.
Letting alone the peoblem of how slavery isn't actually a useful system. The gimmick is that in our world there isn't enough work to go around. If you only accounted for useful work we could have a society on the level of ours with people working two hour days or so. There just wouldn't be shoe salesmen.
Sorry wasn't advocating some utilitarian idea about slaves or anything just was saying things are horrible for so many under the current system against that teacher's logic against utopia. I understand that in order for a better world to be possible we shouldn't and can't sacrisfe anyone. Not just from whatever country we might be from but also around the world. We stand together in solidarity or get taken out one by one.
Oh no, I didn't mean to imply you had. It is just a pet peve of mine when people describe slavey as efficent and abhorrent. When it is only cheap and abhorrent. It is actually highly inefficient but in the way of capitlaism that doesn't matter. So I came off to hard, sorry.
I was worrying I came a across wrong, no worries though. Maybe I should get some more sleep store posting next time.