I am tired of people validating their machismo masculinity, please let me go from this life
Fucking hell people can’t help but get weird about how supposedly hard people should work.
We need to get the brainworms out of peoples heads that freak out over the idea of someone poor not having every inch of productivity squeezed out of them constantly.
It’s 2026, not 1917. A communist society of today should be far more capable and understanding of it’s peoples needs than it was over 100 years ago.
It’s like what is “hard work.”
I worked harder in my first job as a dishwasher and later line cook than any of my blue collar “real” jobs. People doing shit retail and service work are some of the hardest workers out there, but that’s rarely viewed in such a light. Not to say those are the only forms of hard work, but just that any concept of it is surely misguided when viewed thru the lense of our capitalist society.
It’s the capitalists (real ones that actually own capital) that are genuinely afraid of hard work.
To them hard work is anything a masc person with a body built from constant gyming does. A disabled person can die on work floor by ut it wouldn’t be hard work for anyone
A main point is that even soviets made advancements for their time in how much they accommodated everyone of every need, like reading pat sloan’s soviet democracy literally made me cry. Even earlier utopian socialists championed what these can’t grasp 8 hour work, 8 hour leisure, 8 hour sleep, these people claim to be nom religious and for “automation” but they are for sure very Protestant in their worship of hard work
I interpret working hard as in “from each according to their abilities”. The goal is not slaving away every grueling hour, but for everyone to be empowered to contribute meaningfully to society.
The comment about western leftists believing socialism is paradise is uneducated, Marxism is scientific and not utopian, everyone understands that, for the time being, people work.
Honestly I can’t give them this interpretation because of how much antagonizing they were towards people who would do non-traditional work. Western leftists seems like a euphemism used for disabled people because those are the only ones who can’t work as much as everyone else.
Could perfectly be tbh, I’m not used to detecting such dogwhistles
It’s alright I get it, I live in a fascist household so I was forced to develop my dog ears like that
I finally got a my dream job at a green house. The boss was shit and worked me to hard and now my disabilities are worse. Still working on what they are after the hysterectomy to deal with the forever periods. We are leaning towards autoimmune based on a screening.
Every day is a struggle now. I do a few things and I’m laid out on the chair for a day or so. What sucks is, I really miss the work before my boss got his hands in it to much. I miss being useful and doing work I enjoyed.
But my choices are to make my disabilities even worse and work myself to death or stay unemployed. And that choice I have is a fucking privilege which I fucking hate.
I still do work when I can. I put a lot of effort in the garden and my local community (when I’m not suffering from burn out. Was burning the candle from both ends at the tail end of that job) but I still suffer from this idea that it’s not enough because I don’t get paid.
I’ve thought of this a lot, actually.
So far I’m at some kind of waiver system for those of us who’ve been working hard or with a disability or neurodivergence. I know it’s all a bit of putting the cart before the horse but I’d like to think after revolution we can all have a break for a bit.
I’ve been thinking about something like this, frankly if there’s one immediate thing that could be done upon taking power that would get average “apolitical” people on our side and quell their doubts about the new society, it’s declare that everyone gets some money and a nice long vacation if they want it. Just an immediate shocking change from the status quo
is the implication that product design is easy? i dont get the context
I don’t get it either but I didn’t focus on that, that’s simple enough to me, universities consolidated their programmes all the time what hit was the foundation it was laying
