• forrgott@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    An “economic perspective” is horribly skewed in favor of the capitalist class; that’s just saying the misery of the commoner is justified by the greed of those who refuse to actually assist in producing any goods or value for society.

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      8 months ago

      In the context of the United States, which I believe the original poster is talking about. There’s the classic rural problem of how do you keep them down on the farm. There’s many economic opportunities across the whole country, which allows freedom of movement, so people can emigrate to different parts of the country with more job opportunities and more lucrative uses of time.

      So it’s not a dichotomy of work a rotating schedule or starve. There are other jobs in the area, they might be farm labor jobs, they may not pay as consistently, they may not pay as well, but there are economic opportunities in most rural areas. If those are insufficient, people have been known to move to the cities the urban areas where there’s more work opportunities.

      This rotating shift opportunity, is just one of many available to people living in the United States. They’re not being forced into it. People are choosing it of their own free will.

      If we would like to say rotating schedules should be illegal, great, let’s codify that into the labor laws. Vote on it. Then every business will have the same constraints.

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        8 months ago

        Oh, for heavens sake. I chose to be born into a life where I can only choose the form of my exploitation, in other words?

        No. It is not in any way shape or form a result of my choice that some business owner is prioritizing money over people.

        Capitalism is not a neutral system. And it’s flaws are certainly not the fault of those being exploited.

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          8 months ago

          Nobody is forcing your labor. You can live off the land mountain man style if you want to.

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            8 months ago

            You literally cannot. Homesteading hasn’t been a thing since the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.