You’re being exploited the same exact way we see as inhumane for animals. You’re simply performing tricks to make your bosses money while you get the “reward” of scraping by with no opportunity in life for self fulfillment. They’re tossing you fish to survive while they live like kings.
Capitalism has dehumanized us. We witness intelligent animals commit suicide in captivity and it sparks such outrage that the practice is (rightfully) under immense scrutiny. We witness other people kill themselves, while billions of others have anxiety and depression stemming directly from how we live our lives and we consider that NORMAL. I know this post is a block of text but it’s honestly really important to remind yourself from time to time how desensitized people have been forced to become to not be constantly outraged at life under capitalism.
Why should they when it makes no difference? Does it matter how happy a dolphin in a dolphin show is if you can just replace it?
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I agree to a point, but these systems are unsustainable without exploitation.
Baby boomers, for example, were given relatively lavish lifestyles for their servitude. When global exploitation is no longer enough to sustain the artificial growth in an inherently unstable system, domestic exploitation must also eventually increase in order to appease the need for growth by that (now significantly stronger) demographic. Gen X, Millenials, and Gen Z are all now reeling in the aftermath of austerity measures taken to lessen the impact of natural instability under capitalism. You CANT give the generations after boomers the same quality of life because capitalism has already acquired access to the lowest global costs needed for production. Short of making these people work more, to keep the lavish lifestyles of the few intact value has to start coming from somewhere else. The system is unsustainable, it inevitably is a slow burn to slavery. If there is not a promise of growth (which in this case, growth is based off of exploitation) the bottom of the system falls out.
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The capitalists actually can't choose to maintain their power indefinitely because theirs is a fundamentally unstable economic system. The rate of profit declines until some of them start to feel the pinch and begin advocating for the reassertion of class control, which is one of the reasons we saw a global turn to neoliberalism around the 80s.
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there is probably wide agreement on buying off the proles, but the problem is deciding who has to pay for it amongst the factions of capital. it is normally the function of the state (executive committee of the bourgeois) to resolve something like this, but as the institutions decay they are no longer capable of forcing concessions or even making policy