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But as in so many patriarchal social orders, men like to conceive of themselves as doing socially, or culturally, what they like to think of women as doing naturally. “Production” is thus simultaneously a variation on a male fantasy of childbirth, and of the action of a male Creator God who similarly created the entire universe through the sheer power of his mind and words, just as men see themselves as creating the world from their minds and brawn, and see that as the essence of “work,” leaving to women most of the actual labor of tidying and maintaining things to make this illusion possible.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
As Porath writes: “When people experience incivility, the process of consciously evaluating it seems to take precedence over primary tasks, even when an individual does not want to think about the rude incident. It tends to occupy them, even if they do not want it to.”
Post-capitalism needs to invent wholly different value-standards and social behaviours, and a new sense of sufficiency and well-being needs to replace the widespread aspiration to become upper-middle class.
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito
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