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Re:Work/life balance should be difficult by Ancapistani on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:03PM (#29570221)
I’ll argue this in good faith. Let’s take your preconditions as fact for the purposes of this discussion - employers are either “wealthy sociopaths” or agents of the same.

You may find the options they offer to be unacceptable, but what if they didn’t exist? What options available to you if that were the case are not available to you because they do exist?

As far as I can see our current system is beneficial, if only because it allows people additional choices of how to live their lives.

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Re:Work/life balance should be difficult by DarylZero on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:08AM (#29578232)
> What options available to you if that were the case are not available to you because they do exist?

The option to share resources in an egalitarian way so that people can meet their basic needs without subordination.

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Re:Work/life balance should be difficult by thot_experiment on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:31PM (#29570536)
Beneficial compared to what? We're stuck in a peak and there may be much higher ones elsewhere but because to traverse to those points we might have to descend the idea is unthinkable.
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