this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2024
373 points (87.2% liked)

Memes

1276 readers
245 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
373
Quality of Life ☭ (midwest.social)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

See, the thing is that workers have not traditionally enjoyed the freedom to engage in economic activity freely. Unless you were part of a privileged caste you were only allowed to work for others, instead of working for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I guess they mean it more literally in that workers actually did the work to make a thing.