i thought so too when i was a kid… that was the dream that was being sold when computers were taking off and the internet was just a baby
I also was fed that lie as a child and believed it. Why wouldn’t you? Until you learn about the bourgeoisie
exactly… there was so much hope for the future back then it seemed.
I remember thinking the internet and translators would create world peace and mass organization of the people.
Ah yeah the early internet utopians. How’d that turn out?
The same as OG utopians
Contemplating the one comrade here who talked about what a tool for humanity the Internet could have been outside of the capitalist framework and now I’m just sat here feeling feelings.
Your thoughts further proves that communism is natural thinking and capitalism is revisionism.
Keynes argument for the reduction in labour is actually both coherent and consistent, the problem is that capitalists are neither.
It completely fails to take into consideration the core dynamics that run capitalism, so it’s no wonder that it looks delusional today after it has been so clearly disproven by capitalism working exactly as expected
The supreme irony is that China, a socialist country, is leading the way:
Average annual work hours in 2023 (first line is for the internet companies that implement full 996 work culture):
Average work hours per week from 2018-2023, it’s not coming down:
Under communism, work is so fulfilling that workers ask for 10 hour days
lmao @ brain day skipper
15 hour weeks?.. you mean days right?
Keynes stole the ideas of Silvio Gessel and made it liberal that said out loud
