lasers4eyes
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“You might mean working according to someone else’s plan.”
Yes, this is what I meant by “working for”.
“If you abolish ownership, then working “for” someone changes in meaning.”
This is correct, if you stretch the meaning of “working for”, it can mean anything in the world. However, when we take the context of a workplace (for example a factory that makes glasses), in a capitalist system where you need to sell your labor in order to have a barely adequate life, you do not work for anything else other than your capitalist boss.
You do not work for the people who need glasses.
You do not work for the glory of the working class.
You work for your capitalist boss. This is pretty easy to understand when you actually manage to develop some class consciousness (you’ll get there).
It does not matter if your boss is “kind, considerate and willing to work with you”, you still work for him.
I’d be much more in favor of working in a factory if that boss was non-existant, and it instead felt like a union or group instead of a factory where I’m told to shut my trap or risk being homeless, or forced to move somewhere else to find work.
Edit: Looks like I made the Libs mad with this one B)
But wouldn’t you rather want to work with that person instead of for that person?
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Expectation vs. Reality (Turn on sound.)English1·8 days agodeleted by creator
I mean when you put it like that it makes a lot more sense, but even that requires a sort of technology to accurately build a brain that works the same way a human brain does. Maybe AGI can be built but we have none of the resources to synthesize a human brain?
How do we even know if AGI is achievable? I don’t know anything about this topic but as far as I’ve heard AGI might actually just be impossible.
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?English101·11 days agoOh for me it’s been like this since I first signed up.
But if you really think theres too few posts maybe thats a good call for you to start posting? :)
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?English34·11 days agoHardly bothers me. I’ll be scrolling for maybe 2 minutes and reach yesterdays posts, get caught up. It’s nice to be on social media where you aren’t constantly scrolling.
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Buy European@feddit.uk•Support Swiss businesses and break free from American techEnglish4·12 days agoIn the 21st century, there is no sovereignty without technological sovereignty. Swiss money is better spent developing our own technology and services industry than supporting the economy of unreliable trading partners.
Absolutely agree, let’s hope the Swiss can also walk the walk.
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Global News@lemmy.zip•US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’English42·16 days agoMy face when there is more than one evil person in power in the world: :O
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED techEnglish2319·17 days agoTechnology is to be shared, fuck IP. Let the Chinese have it.
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk@lemmy.world•Self-regulatingEnglish5·23 days agoAnd then they call Trotsky the traitor… when Lenin himself was already sounding the alarm on the rot from within. It’s hilariously ironic how the system they built devoured its own, yet the critiques came too late to stop the damage.
The state is counter-revolutionary. Always.
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk@lemmy.world•Self-regulatingEnglish11·23 days agoEven Lenin was critical of the USSR before he died. He wrote about it in his book “Better Fewer, But Better”.
“Our state apparatus is so deplorable, not to say wretched…
“We must reduce our state apparatus to the utmost degree of economy. We must banish from it all traces of extravagance, of which so much has been left over from tsarist Russia, form its bureaucratic capitalist state machine.”
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto World News@lemmy.world•BBC finds electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groupsEnglish19·27 days agoAnonymous, do your thing. Please come back.
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto politics @lemmy.world•Zohran Mamdani beats out all NYC mayoral candidates combined—New pollEnglish13·1 month agoZohran “Self Ascribed Socialist” Mamdani
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulationEnglish33·1 month agoNeoliberalism 2.0
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•tell me your outlook on human nature and i tell you who you areEnglish191·1 month agoHumans also invented slavery, torture devices, nuclear weapons, and totalitarian regimes but we don’t argue these things are “natural” or inevitable.
Just because humans created capitalism doesn’t mean it’s an expression of some essential or universal human trait.
lasers4eyes@piefed.zipto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump adminEnglish7·2 months agoHey Hey, Ho Ho! [Insert some politician] has got to go!
More libshit word salad. Not biting.