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.
And if you try to point this out to most people, they'll just call you lazy.
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I decided to stay with my lib boomer parents over quarantine and I feel so blackpilled now. They asked me about high-school-appropriate resources for learning to code, because a friend's kid is keen to go into game dev, and I ended up having a rant about the exploitive labour practises and crunch culture in the industry (friends have been hurt by it, so it's a personal outrage for me).
My dad was like "ya, but all work environments are stressful, x at my job thinks she got cancer because of the blah blah project..." And like... What the fuck??? How is somebody ending up in hospital for the sake of a fucking retailer okay? And back to game dev, how the fuck are similar 'stress casualties' considered a normal, accepted part of producing fancy toys?
The craziest thing is that he, himself is a really fit, healthy guy who's rightly convinced that he would never have had a heart attack if it wasn't for an insanely badly-managed project he was on for the last few years before he retired. So, he's accepted that the system he believes literally nearly killed him is just the way shit has to be, and that it's even worth defending from criticism. It's just... DEATH CULT. That's all I can say. How do you even get through to somebody at that point?
I'm so depressed.