hexmaniacciaran:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

“People are naturally lazy and will never do any kind of work for free.”

Minecraft Players:

I just wanna point out that this post has almost 200k notes and I’ve lost count of the stupid comments that are something to the effect of “playing games isn’t working so OP doesn’t have a point.” It is 100% work; making Kings Landing on a virtual 1:1 scale in a video game where you have to mine for resources and build everything from scratch takes a ton of time and dedication, as well as planning and cooperation in a community to make it happen. That’s time that these people will never get back. Work doesn’t have to be physically involved to be work; when someone works as a programmer you don’t pretend that their time spent programming isn’t work simply because it isn’t SPECIFICALLY manual labor, because you understand they took time to create something that requires a certain set of specific skills.

My point is that the concept of people doing work ONLY because they get paid is bullshit capitalist nonsense; humans have been working, creating, and building since the begining of their existence in this world, thousands and thousands of years before capitalism. The idea that capital/money is the only driving incentive to creativity and hard work is simply not true. Minecraft was the best example I found for this because it’s a game that requires EFFORT for you to MAKE/CREATE things, but ALSO you have virtually unlimited ACCES TO RESOURCES, and the point is that when you have a creative species that likes to work, the main roadblock to our evolution as a society that can sustain itself and become something more than what we are now is not that “humans are naturally lazy” and require capitalism to do great things, it’s our wastefulness, inability to fairly manage and distribute resources to all sections of the world, and the fact that rich fucks still want you to believe that them exploiting your labor so they can continue to make money off you is a “necessity” and not a parasitic side effect of capitalism’s many inadequacies.

The point is that we have been creating wonders and advancing before capitalism and creativity and hard work are not exclusive to it, and that the idea of a future with things like basic necessities covered such as food and shelter while we automate work with machine would make people lazy and amount to nothing is a bill of goods being sold to you so you accept said status quo of exploitation.

Star Trek is a good example of a possible future post-capitalist society and how it might function, and that’s what I’m ultimately getting at.

Even just shit like Wikipedia, especially on the more academic articles. There’s no economic incentive yet you have these random people sharing all sorts of knowledge just so it can be accessed for free

And like, a thousand of the things people do for fun are also work. Art? Baking? Gardening? Knitting? Building websites? Caring for your pets? It’s all work and most things we consider to be games clearly simulate work (which means we’re actually still working, there’s just no measurable result beyond fun). 

We all constantly work for fun because we’re a bunch of brain-cells that require a decent amount of interesting stimulation as much as they require a decent amount of rest and nuitrition.  

We don’t even need to get to a ‘full automation, machines do everything for us’ reality at all to get to a life of pure leisure. We can actually produce all we need just by having fun. We’re making so much ‘for fun’, imagine how much more we’d spontaneously make if we weren’t constantly pressured to do pointless jobs that dull our minds and brainwash us into thinking of work as ’not fun’.