| ▲ | palmotea 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> bygone times when the world moved at a much slower pace, but who has the time and the energy to read a long novel today? Capitalism is "fixing the glitch" of workers having space energy. I hope soon we'll achieve the ideal bimodal distribution of labor: work intensified to the point where workers that have the energy for nothing but work, and the impoverished totally unemployed that we can just corral and forget about. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dash2 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
This is one of those very common ideas that cannot survive a ten second encounter with the facts: https://ourworldindata.org/working-more-than-ever | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nozzlegear 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
How does this viewpoint account for the times when "capitalism" was, by all objective measures, worse for laborers? I.E. the early industrialization period when laborers worked 14-16 hour days alongside children in factories and mines, risking life and limb? | |||||||||||||||||
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