• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    If we were allowed to do just what is necessary for survival we would spend way, way less time on it than we do working now

    Sure, bud.

    Picking weeds from a crop just big enough to support a family does not take 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year

    Sure, bud. I guess you’ve never met a farmer? It’s famous as one of those 9-5 jobs with weekends off, isn’t it?

    We live in a form of indentured servitude

    Sure, bud. That famous form of indentured servitude where you get nights and weekends off, and are free to change bosses at any time.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        26 days ago

        I guess one has spent too much time in church or movies or something, believing that there’s some utopia where berries gratefully fall off bushes into our waiting hands, if only the durn gubmint, or frickin capitalists would get out of our way.

          • merc@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            26 days ago

            My dude, I live on a hobby farm. Complete with livestock. I have giant blackberry bushes.

            That’s great my dude. My dude, what fraction of your yearly calories come from this hobby farm, my dude? My dude, are you able to actually meet your nutritional needs with this hobby? My dude, is this farm just a hobby? If it meets all your needs, why do you work at all, my dude?

            • Voixe2@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              25 days ago

              I agree with this mf but he’s so fucking annoying about it that I actually want him to trip on his shoelaces and shut the fuck up