capitalism vs humanity

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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. 

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Good thing there are 8 billion other horses clamoring to fill the gap.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Reminds me how Amazon started running low on people willing to work in its warehouses.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Why are you collapsing from exhaustion on company time? That’s not being a team player. Get up or you’re fired!”

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• emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why use long-term thinking when short-term thinking do trick (in the short term)

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    electrocutes

    Yeah, but just the one time.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s funny how many people don’t get electrocute means dead, shock means survived.

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Productivity shouldn’t be the be all and end all but that’s a different debate

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People in the US go hungry, the US government has so much cheese in stockpile that they use caves/abandoned mines to store it.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Release me into the cheese mine and they will have none withing 48 hours.

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    • Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a hell of a superpower.

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• daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Capitalism is fine enough if properly regulated. But that, of course, is the problem. Properly regulaing it.

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  • humanamerican@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Capitalism will never be sufficiently regulated because the regulators will inevitably become corrupted by and subordinate to capital.

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Tell me what magic system is free from corruption.

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  • theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Except no its still bad to allow exploitation of people’s labor like that no matter how you try to lower the impact.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it is a problem because the people in power are the ones that have to be regulated.

    the only fix is ending capitalism.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Humans suddenly evolve into a species getting off on electrocution.

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• humanamerican@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is another (way): start building guillotines

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• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Its about how to best exploit you not how to make you most productive.

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