https://twitter.com/FoxGGreen/status/1550181570421706753
Baristas also deserve to be hand fed by an influencer looking to make 5 trillion views from charity porn.
“people should be paid fairly for work”
“no, people should be given work”
great dialectics
Without the baristas you can enjoy eating plain coffee beans
Of course Starbucks ceases to exist if the laborers that transform shitty burnt coffee beans into sugary monstrosities cease to exist
While a good part of Barista-work isn’t bullshit a lot of it is and there is a good argument to be made to cut down on Barista’s, automated and machinate a lot of it and for the places which will still have some put them into collective and communal property (maybe as part or adjacent to social centers, chill or mobility hubs?).
The actual wealth of society, and the possibility of constantly expanding its reproduction process, therefore, do not depend upon the duration of surplus-labour, but upon its productivity and the more or less copious conditions of production under which it is performed
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The shortening of the working-day is its basic prerequisite
TL;DR higher productivity, shorter working days, its the root of freedom
okay i went further down the cursed rabbithole and found exactly why the anti-bike emoji :peter-coffin:
ive read this dipshits tweets so you dont have to, it appears that this person is an anti-degrowth patsoc who thinks that asking mayos to cut back on treats for the sake of not destroying the planet is exactly the same as malthusianism and the west needs to increase its production :very-intelligent:
edit: how do you even parody this? :so-true: :mcmansion: