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No, it's not 'normal'. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/aiop@lemmy.world
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“No, it's not 'normal' for humans to be in competition all the time. It's not normal to work for most of your waking hours during the day. It's not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that's just how being human is. It's not.” —Hilary Agro, PhD (anthropologist & community organizer)
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it not, tho? I mean no disrespect because I ain't no anthropologist and I ain't got no PhD in nothing, but, when was this time when humans where not in permanent competition, working most of their waking hours? She comments 'a few hundred years' ago which would put it in the Enlightenment, Renaissance, or Middle Ages? I do not think your average peasant got that great of a life back then either. Again I'm not saying it's not true, but I would appreciate some sources or elaborating a bit further than a trust-me-bro appeal to authority.

Also, I'm not saying that, even if it were normal, we shouldn't try and change it. Because if we don't strive to make life better and more comfortable for us humans, what's the point of all this civilisation shit?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    The time when all of that happened was from the beginning of humanity up until about the late 1600s/early 1700s

    The average Medieval peasant worked less than half as much as a modern worker. And enjoyed a standard of living much closer to their global average than the modern worker in most cases as well.

    Capitalism is a death cult.

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