Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoit's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely knowmessage-squaremessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down1105
arrow-up1353arrow-down1message-squareit's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely knowBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square157fedilink
minus-squaretronlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down5·10 months agoChoosing death by starvation is not a choice. Work or die, slave.
minus-squareTar_alcaran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoSartre would disagree, but then Sartre was a professional philosopher.
minus-squareZippy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·10 months agoYou think a company should pay you even if you decide not to work? As much as I wish the universe rained down food, housing, and smart phone but the reality is that it cares not of you get a meal at the end of the day. I have no idea what point you are trying to make.
minus-squarenewIdentity@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoThere are better systems that require you not to die when you dont work.
minus-squareZippy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·10 months agoReally? Like other people take out your garbage and bringing you your food and build your house. The universe cares less if you starve but we do live in a time when we have to do very little work to survive quite well.
minus-squareexplodicle@local106.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoCompanies are already paying people who decide to not work - their owners.
Choosing death by starvation is not a choice. Work or die, slave.
Sartre would disagree, but then Sartre was a professional philosopher.
You think a company should pay you even if you decide not to work? As much as I wish the universe rained down food, housing, and smart phone but the reality is that it cares not of you get a meal at the end of the day.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make.
There are better systems that require you not to die when you dont work.
Really? Like other people take out your garbage and bringing you your food and build your house.
The universe cares less if you starve but we do live in a time when we have to do very little work to survive quite well.
Companies are already paying people who decide to not work - their owners.
Ya ok.