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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
In the ancestral environment we would still work all day to survive, and we wouldn't have medicine or YouTube for it either. There could obviously be a more equitable system today, and the end goal is that humans don't have to work any more, but it's disingenuous to imply that the capitalist division of labour model is an alternative to not working and still getting stuff.
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There's a difference between working in a primitive environment (hunter-gather, especially before hominid started to establish settlements) and what we call as "working" nowadays.
The former didn't involve exploiting others. The latter does.
The former did involve direct involvement to one's own survival, just like any lifeform still does out there. The "work" involved no one's "means of production" because they could get their sustenance from Mother Nature. Even when hominids started to settle in tribes, their work yielded the direct thing that would sustain them: food and water and shelters, as the tribe cared about the tribe.
Meanwhile, "working" in modernity involves solving other's "problems" while one's own problems are promptly dismissed by those whose "problems" are being solved.
Working in modernity involves having no direct part on the means of production, and the yield is exclusivity advantage for the employer.
Working in modernity involves receiving a piece of paper (or digits on a computer screen) that isn't guaranteed to be exchangeable for sustenance (not enough "digits" or "paper" pieces, the core of the meme).
You mentioned how we wouldn't have medicine, but medicine comes from Mother Nature (except for petroleum or other very artificial sources, practically every drug from pharmacy was built from a plant that Mother Nature originally offered for free).
Interestingly, humans existed for millions of years while modern medicine only appeared "recently" (a few centuries ago), so if medicine was sine qua non for surviving, humans would be long extinct.
And, YouTube as part of "human survival", are you serious?! You should've included Onlyfans, Tinder and LinkedIn to "survival essentials" as well (guess I'm dying as I use neither of those)! /s
Back on the ancestral work vs modern work, the ancestral environment didn't have climate change as a byproduct of human greedy. Species weren't endangered by our activities. There was no hole in the Ozone layer, no PM2.5, no metallic wreckage orbiting Earth without means to be deorbited, no microplastics, no pandemics that could risk other species as well (bc there was no globalization yet).
So I'm quite radical: I advocate that humans should pave a way to return to hunter-gathering systems among wildlife, where we used to belong, even with the use of technology (AI) that could allow us to reintegrate with Nature as seamlessly as possible.
After all, fire was the beginning of civilization, so "fire" (as in electricity) must bring civilization to its end as we know it, before humanity goes extinct through its own fire (e.g. nuclear exchanges due to MAD or chunks of metal hitting our heads due to a Kessler Syndrome provoked by the recklessness of billionaires wet-dreaming to colonize a red planet) together with all the amazing species on this Pale Blue Dot that have nothing to do with humans' artificially-invented problems.