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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx
In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland
The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc
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Have you ever tried to produce food, though. It is surely not free, and I refer you to the labour theory of value (LTV) for a straightforward explanation of that.
Food is literally free here in sweden at least, thanks to the right to roam. You have the legal right to pick mushrooms and berries in the wild.
There is not enough wild growing food to feed the entire human population. You are welcome to live in the woods and survive on only berries and mushrooms go right ahead.
Agriculture is hard work. Hard work has value and therefore the resulting product of agriculture (food) has value and is not free.
I am not some capitalist pig, I generally agree with anti-work sentiment and am pro work reform. I am working class, working to live, if i dont work I'll be homeless in 2 months. But also I realise that if you build an extremist ideology based upon blatant falsehoods like that in the posted image, it is doomed to fail.
As someone with an acre farm that produces far more than I can eat, agriculture isn't hard work, and I'm doing the hardest version of it. Actual large farms are mostly automated and require less work than any cashier job.
Would you say there are enough wild berries and mushrooms that can be foraged to sustain the population of Sweden?
Definitely not. Sustainable hunter-gatherer population density is tiny. Sweden as a whole has a low bioproductivity.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01548-3
And when pastoralists and farmers arrived it was game over for them https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06862-3
Precisely.
Echoing the other reply - please think about the reality of this.
We can do that too to most extents. But that's not really the same thing as being discussed.
On virtually any job you'll earn enough in an hour to buy more mushrooms and berries than you can pick in that same time.
Have you seen wages? Have you seen the price of these things? That just isn't true. I can easily get several pounds of berries in an hour in the right season but minimum wage might get me 6 oz of that same in season berry.
Several pounds of berries in an hour including travel time and processing of said berries? I highly doubt that.
Berry net and black berries, a single swipe and jiggle gets you 4-6 oz. I don't know what you mean by processing, washing never takes long and removing stems isn't that important unless you mass making jam or giving them to toddlers that can't remove them on their own.