The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.
Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.
That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.
It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.
Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/56355
Would you elaborate on the “false”, please?
Humans still do volunteer, create art, go out and have fun, have days off, partners and some do procreate, take care of children, educate, socialize, protest, provide 3rd spaces, measure success with not their wallets.
It makes sense to use a measure when deciding at scale, but believing this is the only way to look at the world is dystopian. Also note that afformentioned things do provide a value to society that can be measured, even in currency. But that is not trivial. And measuring at scale is what must be done to decide humanely. Otherwise you discount human lives for personal belief and cause harm. Deciding badly, such as by personal belief can cause disproportionate harm. E.g. if you belief water power is the only good power and hinder change to all other forms of power you will cause harm because terrible things are still being done when instead of those bad things could be done.
You are distracting from the issue at hand.
Namely that a few are misusing all of us for their benefit.
Also imagine if all of that effort went to benefit us all (medicine science) instead of making a few rich or fantasizing about flying to mars.
The world has been turned to profit generating machine, but some parts of the machine are still actively under construction
So it’s pointless to sour the mood by talking about the completed parts until it’s all completely finished, we should focus on the unfinished parts, not to mention profits can be good if we ever end up getting access to them in any state and at any price
Option1: (that’s why we should start demolishing every part of it) Option2: (so it’s not all bad, we can live with the machine)
Option 3: there’s no reason we can’t be of good cheer that not everything is thoroughly corrupted, while also smashing the orphan crushing machine, which will also increase and spread good cheer and good will!
How about music as an example; it’s harder than it’s ever been to make a living from making music without following an ever-narrowing window of what it should sound like.
We went from music in the 19thC being a hugely expressive range of dynamics, tempo, time signature, instrumentation all within one single piece, to the top 95+% of artists all pumping out 4/4 time, 130bpm, same volume throughout, same instrumentation throughout, no pauses, repeating verse/chorus structure. Is that because it’s better? Heck no, it’s because that’s what record companies will consider a reliable enough formula to be worth the risk of pumping millions into promoting.
You’re accusing OP of fatalism, but I put it to you that it’s you who are fatalistic in accepting Capitalism as just how it is, and that we should lump it and do our Art in our spare time and be thankful for it.
You are allowed to earn from music and try to make a living off of your music. And a lot of new music I experience doesn’t follow the formula you prescribed.
You should broaden your world view.
Well done, you’re listening to a group than makes less than 5% of the money mentioned earlier.
It’s always the densest, point-missing people that act the most condescending and rude when you thought you were having a good faith discussion. Blocked
Music is a form of art. You are thinking of paintings, I believe.