• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    1 hour ago

    Reminder that socialist countries like Cuba or the USSR have historically de jure and de facto guaranteed employment, with worse economic conditions and over a half century ago. Unemployment is a capitalist construct and we can do better than that.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      32 minutes ago

      i think we need to get rid of the mentality that work is a moral obligation.

      what’s the point in having exponential productivity increase if we are all still expected to work full time or starve.

      we could probably just set up a 20 hour week maximum and the economy would still run. just with less profits for the 1%, but they can go fuck themselves with syphilitic cacti.