"People Don't Want To Work Anymore"... duh?

"People don't want to work anymore" is a dead horse that's been beaten to the point of glue. Usually uttered by boomer, petite-bourgeoise types who can't wrap their senile brains around why people don't want to work at their shitty Arby's franchise for $7.50/hr in an area where cost of living requires $15/hr. People who are indignant about forcing people to work have got a neoliberal brain worm eating at their frontal lobe. "People don't want to work anymore", yeah no shit dude, you just figured that out? Hell I highly doubt YOU even want to work. This pride in a P-O-S J-O-B for the sake of having one, is a relatively new and invasive concept. For many human societies in history, work was something to avoid where possible. I came across this video from the channel "The Visual Philosopher" and while most of the video talks about how different cultures talked about a life well-spent, I want to focus on the relationship to labor for the sake of this post. For all the masturbation…

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