The paradox of productivity in 2018 is even if you're writing a quantum tech article whilst simultaneously dogwalking, podcasting your fourth Ph. D, & inventing the next revolutionary drudge-work-automating app (that will be consumed by a tech giant), you'll always be making not-enough per hour for a dignified existence.
No amount of neurohack pills, 180-hour crunches and AI assistants will ever free us, because neofeudal capitalism will consume all abundance.
The wheel must break.
@silverspookgames Amen.
Though competition in itself is not the main problem.
We are wired as a species compete.
It’s who benefits from that competition.
@rbenjamin Yep. There's nothing wrong with working hard. But working hard to produce economic units should be coupled with working hard to make sure the product isn't going in gross proportion to the wrong places. The neoliberal Jedi mind trick is to make you think that asking for fairness is equal to laziness, when you are working yourself to death. Economic Stockholm Syndrome.
On some level we know this, but sometimes it helps to remind oneself, "I am a person, I don't deserve this bullshit"
