I have been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 this week for the first time and part of the game is blacksmithing your own tools, it has this whole well-designed minigame for making badass weapons and you have to buy your own materials for it, make the gear properly so it is high quality and then find somewhere to sell it or use it yourself, if you do use it yourself you also have to repair it over time on this little sharpening wheel thing.

It is so rewarding and freeing to be able to work when you want, for yourself and then be rewarded properly for your hard work and feel the pride of your own ability! I know real life working is not as simple as it is in this game but it really made it click for me that our relations to production, our exploitation as workers, our necessity to work to survive rather than to thrive all make working go from a mostly positive to a mostly negative for the majority of individuals.

If we could all live with relative comfort as a guarantee and then have our own self-employed trades we are passionate to make extra money for ourselves and our community, life would be pretty good as it turns out, someone should write a manifesto about this ‘community-ism’ thing.