Sigh ... can you people tell me what is your "idea of life"? Like what do you think a persons' life should look like?
I mean for a moment lets imagine that you're the only one on earth, everyone just disapeared. Your life will be pretty hard do you realize that? It'll be a constant survival, gathering food, clean water, being warm, preparing for weather catastrophes, animal attacks, insects, diseases, etc. You'll be constantly on edge whether you survive to the next day, week, year. The reason you don't have to deal with shit like that is that we have sort of functioning society where everyone takes a part, everyone specializes at something and together we achieve more and make your life super easy.
So with this in mind, back to the original question - how do you imagine your existence? Sitting down on your ass? Travel? How? Having a family? How do you feed them? Do you want them to be in constant survival mode?
Or if you like this then go. Really. Go to the woods and enjoy your life.
Or is this somehow supposed to be criticism of 9-5 office job for some billionaire? If yes then this is laughably shallow view of jobs and a society as a whole. Whith shit like this you literally shit on eneryone who does our society a better place.
Whther we use a monetary system, or live like or ancestor tribal groups. We need to work all our lives. The difference is that right now, most of us work longer and harder for less and lezs. The market forces argument need rebalancing
The sad thing is that I DO want to work. I WANT to go study and become a biologist and hopefully teach it someday. But, because of this fucked up system, have to do what can afford to pay rent instead of what I have been dreaming of since I was a kid.
The job I love is me doing my hobbies, and occasionally selling something I make.
My hobbies do not pay the bills unless I spend metric shitloads of energy and time to promote myself, my products, and spend a similar amount of time actually involved in producing them.
For instance, one hobby is blacksmithing. Nobody cares about the regular stuff and mostly want knives. Happy to make them, I love it. But I work on them when I feel like it, they're done when I decide they're done, and if I don't want to work on one for 6 months then I don't.
Heck, I dropped $1300 on tools and raw materials in order to make a single knife I ended up selling for $300. Then I started 8 more knives with the remaining materials, and they've all sat in various stages of completion for about 9 months now.
I feel like I kinda hit the jackpot with my job rn. In the US, I work at my local community college (where I'm a student as well), and I don't think I could ever make myself work for a for-profit business. I'm paid well, treated well, and most importantly, my work is meaningful to me. I happened to land a job that in the language lab (as an interpreting major), and I know that I'm working to directly benefit my community-- not to exploit customers or to be exploited for my own labor. It's bliss.
Not disagreeing with this post whatsoever, and fuck capitalism. Just wanted to go on a happy lil rant because I'm lucky enough to have a job I love in spite of it (for the time being).
Yeah if everyone decided to leave this wage slavery tommorow there would be much more tents in main cities . It would be like one huge ass camping trip.
I mean, even if the laborers own the means of production, they still have to labor. So finding a "job" you love would still be a viable goal. Or am I missing something obvious here?