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No, it's not 'normal'. (thelemmy.club)
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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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[–] 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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