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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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Does anyone else have a hard time imagining a world where "the acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives"? (midwest.social)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Personally I think that the acquisition of wealth is inherent to what it is to be alive, especially if you think about it in terms of increasing the practical capability to get things enacted in the world. Technological progress and building infrastructure is still that thing.

obviously the startrek quote is meaning currency though and there's nothing I disagree with there but still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

wealth in this case meaning use-value, of which the acquisition is important to the basic maintenance of one's own life. Whereas financial value or exchange value is an intermediary and could theoretically cease to be meaningful (think: robots produce all goods, exchange value of everything important is less than pennies)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

so what I said but in marxist