• Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Why are the Labour Party still campaigning for the votes of the Daily Mail and true-blue Tories?

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    1 month ago

    But Chatbots are supposed to be able to do all our work now (except for entrepreneurship which is absolutely not a combination of privilege and dumb luck). Make your mind up, Liz Kendall!

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      1 month ago

      Why? Why should we all have to work just to survive? Productivity is so immensely high with computers and machines that work is not a requirement for life or society like it once was. A smaller percentage of the population can work than before for the same overall output.

      Work should improve your life. You put something in, you get something out (pay). Now you can go and improve your life somehow by buying goods and/or services. But needing to work just for the bare basics of food and shelter is ridiculous in the modern age. We’re a rich country, we should be able to afford to feed and home our population with ease and yet constantly in political discourse there’s talk of benefits “scroungers” “stealing” money they “don’t deserve”, usually for pitifully small amounts of money as well.

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          Hahahaha most certainly not!

          I’m not saying I don’t work, I’m saying it’s unnecessarily forced upon us for the enrichment of the capitalist class and not required to the extent that it is for society to function in the modern age.

          A lot of business is just business for the sake of business. Pushing people to consume regardless of whether they want or need to, or not. If people truly wanted half the shit they buy the advertising and marketing industry wouldn’t be so big.

          If you’re on benefits for whatever reason, health issues (mental or physical), bereavement, disenfranchised, whatever, our society is so rich that you should be able to eat and have somewhere warm to sleep at night without being forced to perform labour against your will.

          To make matters worse, this is coming from the Labour party…

          I’m not saying nobody should work. I’m not saying there’s no benefit to work. I’m saying it shouldn’t be forced upon us just to exist. That’s just slavery with extra steps.

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        1 month ago

        Productivity is so immensely high with computers

        🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂.

        Oh wait, you’re serious?

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        “Why can’t I just sit at home and do nothing and get taxpayers to fund my laziness?”

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          Yes. Or rather why is everyone working such ridiculously long hours when everyone could work less than ten a week and still produce enough for everyone to have more than enough to thrive?

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            1 month ago

            Yes, in the socialist utopia, money clouds would rain cash on us all and no one would have to contribute anything to society.

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              Yes, they shouldn’t have to. Bad societies are created solely with punishments, good societies give back as much as they received from the individuals.

              I’d say only scaredy cats can be controlled via punishment. Being homeless is both a punishment and a warning to others.