Imagine living in a world where your value as a person isn't tied to how physically exploitable you are.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Hey now! Under capitalism, your value as a person is tied to how aggressively you exploit others.
That has not been my experience. Nobody is demanding that of me. Just physical exploitation, from all corners.
If you just bullied the fuck out of people, maybe you’d be able to pull yourself using their bootstraps
That behavior is encouraged, and the circumstances that give rise to it cultivated, by people who subscribe to that worldview. Because it justifies their choices to throw the many under the bus for the desires (not needs but mere desires) of the few.
It all comes back to exploitation; the rest is just what it takes to sustain it.
Luckily for me I get exploited physically and mentally. I strive to one day only be exploited mentally.
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Imagine
I'm a communist and don't want to break my back using a sickle to harvest crops, but also no one does except people watching trad content and romanticizing it. This is why we've automated most of the hard manual labor in developed countries.
We really need to update the symbol, besides all the baggage with the USSR it's just out of date. Maybe on 1920s Russia most people were working with a hammer and sickle, and a lot of people still do to this day in less developed countries, but the meme is right, you ask your average Gen z in the developed world what the symbol means they'll shrug and say idk.
You’re right, a Combine Harvester and a Floppy Disk
Funny you should choose the sickle over the hammer. In industrialized nations commodity crops like wheat, soy, corn, and rice are predominantly mechanically harvested. But tree fruit, berries, and a lot of veggies remain hand-picked or have a mixed manual/mechanical harvesting method that’s much more labor intensive than a combine mowing down endless acres of wheat.
The hammer however has seen a massive decline in full time use across construction sites in developed nations. It’s still a useful tool and most workers carry one, but pneumatic nail guns dominate new construction in developed countries that use wood as their base material.
I’d also push back on your claim that hard manual labor in developed nations is automated. Mechanically assisted to varying levels, like a pneumatic nail gun instead of a hammer, or a haybaler instead of a sickle and building a stack, but it’s still got humans putting hours of physical effort into using those machines to achieve the finished product. There’s people behind home construction or remodels, strawberry picking, road construction, and wildland fire fighting to name a few.
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The feels when some countries do forced labor to hand pick cotton for the higher quality
Make it a tractor.
The engineers can design tractors. And trains.
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straight from facebook, what a post.
Thank you
I thought this community was getting a bit too friendly lately
Quality shit post
Got you babe
What an unexpected post on lemmy even for a shitpost community
I like to keep everyone on their toes
Isn't Babylon Bee like The Onion?
It's like if The Onion was right wing
The Onion if every punchline was racism (or transphobia)
And antisocialist.
Let me know when the Babylon Bee acquires InfoWars AND Tim Heidecker in the same week.
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Capitalist not funny. News at 11.
Literally just a shitty Babylon Bee repost. LemmyShitPosts is a Nazi bar
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Ik, why not the amazon box? They were so out of touch in the days before the internet.