Okay, before you read this, maybe smoke up and drop your fav psychadelic before reading so you can follow me here:
Imagine a way society was organized where instead of exploiting workers as much as possible to enrich literal ghouls, we either:
didnt exploit people and everything was nicer and everybody was less stressed, and we all got to do things out of curiosity and love rather than fear and hate
OR
We all agreed to be exploited for the collective good and we were all still fucked, but we were fucked to make things better for everyone instead of better for ~3000 ghoulish billionaires
So, like, whichever one you picked; imagine if you couldnt ‘own’ stuff you weren’t using. You could, like, keep it around. Maybe you’re the only person on your block with extra space, so you put the neighborhood tool library or insulin factory in your shed, but its not ‘yours’ in the way your toothbrush or the parts of your home you dont choose to open are yours. You certainly couldn’t ‘own’ the house someone else lived in, or the toothbrush they use (i hope). And we could focus on the best ways to do stuff instead of only being able to have nice things as the fallout from scams, too!
I bet when you imagined that, the construct of ‘blame’ was less necessary, and there was no/less need to obfuscate systemic forces, so it would be much easier to take a solution focused mindset, instead of just crab bucketing each other. Right? And either way it was more egalitarian, so there was less advantage to take of one another. Right?
Listen I’m a syndicalist too, but I’ve seen enough interpersonal conflicts to know the instinct to find blame wont go away just because of a system based on mutual cooperation
I’m being partially sincere here, but can you elaborate on how one of those would help in this situation?
Okay, before you read this, maybe smoke up and drop your fav psychadelic before reading so you can follow me here:
Imagine a way society was organized where instead of exploiting workers as much as possible to enrich literal ghouls, we either:
didnt exploit people and everything was nicer and everybody was less stressed, and we all got to do things out of curiosity and love rather than fear and hate
OR
We all agreed to be exploited for the collective good and we were all still fucked, but we were fucked to make things better for everyone instead of better for ~3000 ghoulish billionaires
So, like, whichever one you picked; imagine if you couldnt ‘own’ stuff you weren’t using. You could, like, keep it around. Maybe you’re the only person on your block with extra space, so you put the neighborhood tool library or insulin factory in your shed, but its not ‘yours’ in the way your toothbrush or the parts of your home you dont choose to open are yours. You certainly couldn’t ‘own’ the house someone else lived in, or the toothbrush they use (i hope). And we could focus on the best ways to do stuff instead of only being able to have nice things as the fallout from scams, too!
I bet when you imagined that, the construct of ‘blame’ was less necessary, and there was no/less need to obfuscate systemic forces, so it would be much easier to take a solution focused mindset, instead of just crab bucketing each other. Right? And either way it was more egalitarian, so there was less advantage to take of one another. Right?
Listen I’m a syndicalist too, but I’ve seen enough interpersonal conflicts to know the instinct to find blame wont go away just because of a system based on mutual cooperation
You still live your days and rely heavily upon capitalist systems.
And i said ‘less’. To the point not every system needs to be built around it.