The upper class keep all of the money and do none of the work, the middle class do all of the work, keep none of the moneys... The poor are there to scare the shit outta the middle class!
__________________ Sig by Nuke Nixon Last Edited by Blakemore on Jan 1st, 2000, at 00:00 AM
Typically the rank and file or lower-middle class individual does the lion's share of hard/tedious/difficult work in most businesses, while the higher up it goes that's less true. From a workers' perspective, grunts do the heavy lifting and bigwigs pretend to have super-human work ethic and be self-made while benefitting from those below them.
If you're speaking about the general population, then yeah - there's plenty of lazy fools and free-loaders. Is it an economic or social crisis? Not really. A bigger issue is wealth hoarding, not hand outs for people who make barely a living wage. Every society will have people less inclined to do their part or rely on social safety nets. People abuse privileges and so on. That doesn't invalidate the need for those privileges by a greater whole. Drunk drivers are dangerous; that doesn't mean I want all driving to stop.
I don't think many people think like this. The serious political left is entirely based around the fact of work, and making sure people aren't having their labour exploited.
However, automation is fast making 'work' as we see it (which is still through a Fordian lens in the West) irrelevant, and more jobs are invented to sustain the population. These jobs tend to be useless bullshit, which disincentivises people from working at all. I believe if they were doing something meaningful then there would be few people unwilling to work if they could. Either way, the Capitalist model will soon become entirely unsustainable (heavily due to automation and freedom of technology) and will eventually collapse or transform into something else, where our approach to work and labour will (have to) change.
Remember, even anarchism is based around mutual cooperation; everyone has to pull their share to keep the community sustained. Perhaps there is a certain small class of people who think they'll be the local commune spiritual guide or tea-maker instead of performing necessary labour, but very few people who are worth their salt think that "people should be free to live their lives" in such an absolute sense. Those that do have negligent influence on general discourse and ideological / social development.
I was going to mention automation as well and how we may already be artificially creating jobs now just to sustain a model that probably is old and outdated.
Also how many of the 'non-workers' aren't necessarily asking to not work. They just want to make sure the work they get will actually sustain their lives and it's not just feeding into the corporate machine while they struggle to barely survive.
Noah was a mistranslated story of a flood in mesopotamia over 6,000 years ago.. to think the entire Earth flooded defies physics! How can anyone think something so dumb 😂
__________________ Sig by Nuke Nixon Last Edited by Blakemore on Jan 1st, 2000, at 00:00 AM
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