[lbo-talk] cushy life/strict equality

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 26 13:52:53 PST 2005



>
> By "real" job, you mean a job that one does only
> because one would
> otherwise be denied the necessities of life? Have
> you ever worked in
> a team of volunteers, who do their best simply out
> of a spirit of
> camaraderie? Never mind the socialist solidarity,
> most of the people
> who do it aren't socialists, simply ordinary human
> beings. Some of
> them are even capitalists, demonstrating that
> unearned income doesn't
> necessarily lead people to become idle parasites.

Years of working with volunteer labor is part of the basis I have for my pessimism.

By a "real job" I meant one when people actually depend on you, and you on them, to do something over a sustained period that is not all fun. Most of our experiences of this sort are paid wage labor.

jks


>
> And this happens in the environment of capitalism,
> where we are all
> poisoned by prevailing social climate. Fundamental
> human nature
> prevailing even under the most adverse of
> conditions. Of course the
> people most likely to volunteer their labour are
> most likely to be
> those who have not been too deeply scarred, and
> don't have to
> sacrifice too much. Usually.
>
> But to suggest that it goes against human nature is
> contradicted by
> the evidence. Humans are social animals, sharing and
> co-operation are
> in our genes.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
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