[lbo-talk] To each according to work

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 04:48:13 PDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Seth Ackerman <sethackerman1 at verizon.net> wrote:


> Ok, let's take someone who lives alone. He has a set of chores he needs
> to do in order to have the kind of life he wants. These are things that
> need doing. By your lights, he ought to enjoy every one of these tasks
> for the sole reason that they need to be done. Yet empirically, that
> just isn't the case. Millions of people in the world live alone and in
> general they hate doing many of the chores that they do. These chores,
> no matter how much the individuals concerned would like it to be
> otherwise, are not "rewards unto themselves." How do you explain this
> unfathomable anomaly?

Better yet, how about not living alone, but with someone who simply won't pick up their share of the chores, even ones that you enjoy in measured amounts? It's a fine path to undermining solidarity, lemme tell ya.

The inherent pleasure of cleaning toilets goes right down the crapper if it's always left to you.

-- Andy



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