General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: For people talking about having a 50 year old retirement age [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)not most people.
most of the things called "jobs" are
1) make-work managing and controlling the problems capitalism produces (criminals/prisoners, drug addicts, the unemployed, the poor, and all the problems these people have because of their social status and social humiliation);
2) guarding a/o maintaining the property of the rich,
3) generating propaganda for the rich, including advertising, political and economic commentary, "news", much of what's called science, etc.
4) researching and building weapons, surveillance systems, drugs and other control goods for the rich, including genetic and psychiatric research,
5) producing opiates, circuses, religion and other forms of spectacle and mental/physical escape for the masses;
6) other such.
very little paid work is actually about producing useful, life-enhancing things (goods or services), and the part that is is always tainted in some way by the fact that production is geared towards the needs of the ownership class.
for example, i consider educating young people an important function of any society. but that way it's currently done and what is taught was decided by the rulers, and when their needs change, they restructure education to fit their needs -- as they are now.