Toblin

Let's have a life before death. Why we must to work so much to survive, and what it means for our freedom. Jokes about work + satire.

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The freedom of those who don't have to work to survive comes at the expense of those who have to survive by doing the necessary work on their behalf.
#UBI #artificialsurvival #shareTheNecessaryWork

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Technology didn't free us - it enslaved us.

Or, rather: capitalism did.

It's not fair to blame the hammer for how it's used.

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Instead, we distribute it unequally by letting some people survive by doing nothing - while others must survive by working full-time, or more.

In other words: we have an unequal distribution of freedom.

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The Unequal Distribution of Freedom

This follows from seeing free time - i.e., the time not required to meeting one's basic needs - as a resource for effective freedom.

In that case, we could all have as much discretionary time as possible if we shared the necessary work. 1/2

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They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
― Samwise Gamgee 3/3

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“It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? 1/3

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But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. 2/3

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If you want to survive, then waste your life.

And, that's not all: that's why you're free!

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We don't blame a slave for not working while the master isn't watching.

But heaven forbid a worker do the same—even when the reasons are eerily similar.

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I don't want to do anything 40 hours per week.

"Find a job you love," they say.

Well - if I have to do it 40 hours per week, then I'll hate it even if it's something I love. Doesn't matter what it is: gaming, playing, reading, writing - if I'm forced - I'm not going to like it.

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Academia summarized.

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Hey man, life. It's precious - and you only got one shot at it. So you better sell yourself into servitude if you want it to continue.

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Why We Work So Much: We Manufacture Fake Survival

Society makes us work more than necessary to meet our needs, creating what I call artificial survival: fake survival, manufactured by man-made systems rather than nature.

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Mordor would have higher GDP than Rivendell - but where would you rather live?

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Psychologists are the priests of capitalism.

They put the blame on the individual for the dissatisfaction we feel from the emptiness and meaninglessness that the system produces.

It adjusts us to a life without rebellion and purpose.

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A happy slave is still a slave.

Living in Scandinavia - I'm often told that I should be grateful when I criticize the way we work. And, I am - but that's not the point. Whether or not I like my situation does not make me free.

Just as happiness does not make a slave free.