(water is wet and fire is hot).

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    7 months ago

    the average American today works “harder” and more strenuously to the average American in like 1920 is off their gourd.

    The point is that the average person’s work produces more value, but that increase in value is all going to corporations. The value of wealth went up, the value of labour stagnated. That means the rich have more of the pie, and since money begets money, the poor get less and less.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah that’s fine, and completely true. I think people on Lemmy sometimes just get confused by the stat and don’t realize like… how hard most every generation before them also had to work (at least before 1970 or so). Like, on average, much harder than today.

      People see the whole productivity rise and people who are maybe not exactly lateral thinkers think that means the average employee literally works so much harder compared to the “comparatively easy” lives of before.

      It just ends up creating really… strange dynamics

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        7 months ago

        most every generation before them also had to work (at least before 1970 or so). Like, on average, much harder than today.

        How do we know, though? Everyone will think they worked the hardest, suffered the greatest, deserve the most.

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        7 months ago

        Just because I’m not working in a rock factory doesn’t mean I don’t also work hard to sustain any measure of a valuable life

        Comparison is the thief of joy

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            7 months ago

            That doesn’t make any sense lol

            It reads like some Jaden Smith level of insight

            But you have a good one

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              7 months ago

              I guess a more optimistic way to say it is “ignorance is bliss”. I never liked that saying. Ignorance is not a good thing.