Message from @Comrade Skeltal

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2018-03-06 06:08:14 UTC  

that

2018-03-06 06:08:26 UTC  

Just like you wouldn't call government tyrannical.

2018-03-06 06:08:27 UTC  

That's just life. You have to work.

2018-03-06 06:08:27 UTC  

Well I think there is a relevant distinction to be made between coerced labor and slavery

2018-03-06 06:08:36 UTC  

and you dont have to work

2018-03-06 06:08:37 UTC  

"You have to work".

2018-03-06 06:08:37 UTC  

its not life

2018-03-06 06:08:39 UTC  

Slavery.

2018-03-06 06:08:45 UTC  

its only life if the capitalist class says it is

2018-03-06 06:08:48 UTC  

we're free to oppose that

2018-03-06 06:08:58 UTC  

Only you'll then claim its somehow natural

2018-03-06 06:08:58 UTC  

You do have to. It's part of evolution and how we evolved. If nobody worked we wouldn't progress.

2018-03-06 06:09:04 UTC  

No it isnt.

2018-03-06 06:09:09 UTC  

Proof?

2018-03-06 06:09:11 UTC  

We did not evolve to work for the sake of working.

2018-03-06 06:09:15 UTC  

You first, you're making the claim.

2018-03-06 06:09:16 UTC  

^

2018-03-06 06:09:21 UTC  

Never said that

2018-03-06 06:09:25 UTC  

Yes, but you did

2018-03-06 06:09:28 UTC  

I never said people work for the sake of working

2018-03-06 06:09:35 UTC  

"You do have to. It's part of evolution and how we evolved. If nobody worked we wouldn't progress."

2018-03-06 06:09:38 UTC  

Yes

2018-03-06 06:09:42 UTC  

We have to work

2018-03-06 06:09:43 UTC  

what do you think this implies

2018-03-06 06:09:44 UTC  

as a species

2018-03-06 06:09:46 UTC  

to survive

2018-03-06 06:09:50 UTC  

except we dont, not in the way you mean

2018-03-06 06:09:53 UTC  

i.e. wage labor

2018-03-06 06:10:05 UTC  

hence why wage labour didnt exist prior to capitalism

2018-03-06 06:10:11 UTC  

It implies just what I said. We have to work. I never claimed we had to work for the sake of working. That's nonsense

2018-03-06 06:10:13 UTC  

because it in no way is natural to our circumstance

2018-03-06 06:10:24 UTC  

Again, not in the way you mean

2018-03-06 06:10:33 UTC  

We only have to feed, cloth, and house ourselves...not spend 200 hours a week slaving away for someone else's profits.

2018-03-06 06:10:36 UTC  

Ok what do I mean then?

2018-03-06 06:10:37 UTC  

we're talking in the context of capitalism where the number one mode of work is that of wage labour

2018-03-06 06:10:41 UTC  

wage labour is manufactured

2018-03-06 06:10:46 UTC  

^

2018-03-06 06:10:52 UTC  

it is in no way natural or the mode in which we all "have to work"

2018-03-06 06:10:55 UTC  

what you mean,

2018-03-06 06:10:59 UTC  

is we all have to do "something"

2018-03-06 06:11:01 UTC  

Some jobs don't require you to work 200 hours a week