• Devouring@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Didn’t people do this for centuries to farm and have enough food?

    Who said that the goal of humanity is happiness and hedonism? Why not make responsibility your goal?

    I can even contend that true happiness is reached through responsibility.

    • unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It seems as though you and I read two completely different posts.

      Did you intend to put your comment elsewhere?

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      11 months ago

      Would you tell a slave to just focus on responsibility? Why would you tell someone working for a wage something similar? It doesn’t seem hedonistic to me to want to enjoy the fruits of your own labour, or see your community made better by the work you did. Instead a lot of the value of your labour is siphoned off by people you will never meet and only have negative feelings for.