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Re:Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) by namdnay on Sunday August 01, 2021 @03:35PM (#28029151)
But how is that binary choice artificial? You’d have exactly the same choice 10000 years ago. Either go and hunt and forage for food, or starve
Re:Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) by scarecrowbob on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:15PM (#28029484)
I mean, I'm living near a concentration camp for folks who were doing that.

Some folks fenced everything off, hunted the large animals to death, and re-educated the children.

There really isn't a choice, or at least if there is, I've seen what the US did to the folks choosing that choice, and it wasn't pretty.

Re:Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) by ABCLAW on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:23PM (#28029547)
This is a false dichotomy. Parties do not have to have binary, 1 and 0 values for how much power they have in a given transaction, and remarking that employees having little power places them in the same place as ancient hunter-gatherers is... perhaps somewhat dishonest?

If we're experiencing what it is to have an employer have 8:2 relative power to an employee, that doesn't mean that a ratio of 6:4, while still favoring the employer, is no different.

Re:Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) by lurgburg on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:02AM (#28033087)
Perhaps the world has changed somewhat in the last 10000 years.