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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/692619/capitalism-vs-humanity
If you whip your horses they pull the chariot faster.
If you keep whipping them they pass out from exhaustion or injure themselves and have to be killed.
Good thing there are 8 billion other horses clamoring to fill the gap.
Reminds me how Amazon started running low on people willing to work in its warehouses.
Just need to build it further away, you already killed the competition in the area so the residents can pay extra.
"Why are you collapsing from exhaustion on company time? That's not being a team player. Get up or you're fired!"
Why use long-term thinking when short-term thinking do trick (in the short term)
electrocutes you when you think about your wife
Fuck yeah, sign me up. But now I'm masturbating at my desk instead of in the bathroom.
electrocutes
Yeah, but just the one time.
It's funny how many people don't get electrocute means dead, shock means survived.
It's literally a contraction of electricity and execution.
That's the cute part.
Putting the cute back in electrocute, I see.
Honestly the use of "electrocute" as "major electric shock" is common enough that I'd say it counts as another definition
Productivity shouldn't be the be all and end all but that's a different debate
It reminds me of the story about that guy who trained his donkey to go with less food, and just as he was getting it to go with no food at all,the stupid animal died.
People in the US go hungry, the US government has so much cheese in stockpile that they use caves/abandoned mines to store it.
Release me into the cheese mine and they will have none withing 48 hours.
That's a hell of a superpower.
It ain't a super power, it is simple gluttony that would put the greatest of kings to shame. I live for the cheese.
Release me as well to make that 12 hours.
We don't want people being productive long term. We need to chew people up and spit them out young so we have enough work for the endless unwashed hoards.
But also, we have a declining birthrate problem and nobody wants to work anymore.
And also, AI will do all our work for us and since most of us don't own any capital we can be made into fertilizer.
There is another (way): start building guillotines
Humans suddenly evolve into a species getting off on electrocution.
They try to squeeze the last bit of productivity out of the workforce - while salaries stagnate.
Sure, there are studies that show that a good work-life-balance (like the 4 day workweek) increase productivity and reduce sic days - but that doesn't feel right.
It gives the boss a much better feeling to scream at his employees, force overtime, micromanage, set impossible goals and work them to the bone. How can you feel like a boss if you don't increase your workers misery?
U-oh. Must keep repeating the mantra, that capitalism is the most efficient at distributing resources, harder. Big Baron knows best. Pay no attention to the cognitive dissonance. It's good being owned as mere capita slaves. It's right that we be zapped if we think of our wife. Should be working harder! Pay no attention to the workers dropping off like flies from the stress and burnout. Their diseases are good profit for the corporation! Obey harder!
(/s ~ as if that needs pointed out).
Its about how to best exploit you not how to make you most productive.
It's a schizoid world
Capitalism is fine enough if properly regulated. But that, of course, is the problem. Properly regulaing it.
Capitalism will never be sufficiently regulated because the regulators will inevitably become corrupted by and subordinate to capital.
That’s every system in a large society. The mistake we keep making is believing that systems can substitute for relationships and reputations at rooting out bad behaviour.
There will always be corruption, yes. But we can advocate for a system that doesn't center and reward the corruption the way capitalism does
Any system that allows the formation of elites and the centralization of power will suffer the same fate.
That's why I'm an anarchist, but I also know that most people aren't ready for that. That is why for now I'm only advocating for beheading the rich and powerful who are somehow all also pedophiles.
Tell me what magic system is free from corruption.
What a copout
What a shitty answer.
Why would someone make a game with no dramatic tension? Oh yeah we used magic to turn the world into a utopia and nothing bad happened, the end.
Except no its still bad to allow exploitation of people's labor like that no matter how you try to lower the impact.