Political Memes

It's not just economic systems. Every animal works under the threat of starvation.

Just watch a nature documentary. Grazing animals have to eat for hours a day just to eat enough to avoid starvation, and they have to constantly be on the lookout for predators. Predators need to take down one of those grazing animals on a regular basis or they starve.

There has never been a way of living that didn't involve working to avoid starving. When humans developed agriculture, it finally meant that when things were going well starvation was something that might be months away instead of weeks away.

There has never been an economic system where everybody could just be creative and rest all day and not work. That may be true of some elites at the top, but it will always be a small minority of people while everyone else works.

You can always hope that that work will become more pleasant, or that there will be less of it. Work used to be sun-up to sun-down, 6 days a week. Our ancestors fought and died for laws that reduced this to only 8 hours a day and only 5 days a week. Work these days is mostly done indoors, mostly in heated or air-conditioned spaces. It doesn't tend to maim you, or require repetitive movements that eventually cripple you.

People should definitely keep fighting for more. They should join unions so they're not having to fight on their own. But, nobody should be deluded into think it's abnormal to have to work to live.