Economic Universalists Living In Bubbles
Response to: • Why are you working 8 hours per day?
Some referenced items:
1. Asymmetrical restrictions on emigration in Planned vs. Unplanned economies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern...
1.5. Specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern...
2. Whether or not employers have a legal right to fire employees without a valid reason varies by state, despite the whole of America being invariably capitalistic: https://work.chron.com/states-require...
2.5 Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-t...
3. Employees' time spent on phones totals to a fifth of their work week: http://fortune.com/2017/07/25/cell-ph...
3.5. Work rates are declining, by choice, among the youngish and white-collar types: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american...
Yes, these are American work rates I'm talking about. The study: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus...
4. Eco-socialists are historical outliers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-soc...
4.5. Meanwhile, the unmentioned culprit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product...
From the article: "Critics of productivism and its political-economic variants, notably capitalism and socialism, challenge the notions of conventional political economy and argue for an economic policy more compatible with humanity". TL;DR: Productivism (growthism) manifests in capitalism and socialism alike.
Antidote to growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-...
TLDR: Advocates of steady-state economies, be they socialistic or capitalistic, is what's needed to combat environmental degradation (assuming one ought to care about that sort of thing to begin with, which I'll set aside for now).
5. Notable criticisms of trickle-down economics are often made by proponents of capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle...
6. Theory Of Optimal Taxation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal...
6.5. Tax Incidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inc...
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovia...
7. Luck Egalitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck_eg...
Nothing in there about "overthrowing capitalism". No historicism, no revisionism, no Five Year Plans, no distractions. Just a tangible proposal that is implementable in (nearly) any economic system.
8. American cooperatives thriving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
Reasons to be skeptical of ideologies lionizing workers and work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshi...
This may be unintuitive to most, but I believe the 'Bullshit Jobs' phenomenon best explains why raising Class Consciousness, pitting Workers against Owners, and pouring time/energy into the creation of ideal workplaces is the actual Band-Aid crowding out smarter, reconcilable solutions. Insofar as anti-capitalists are hung up on entrenched, historically irreconcilable points of conflict (i.e. LTV), their presence only stands to amplify the Band Aid. At least, for as long as they continue buying into the work-is-dignity framing (in their own ways).
Lastly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technol...