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by iammisc 1695 days ago
> to simply force people to spend most of their lives doing meaningless activities as a form of social control.

This is a human universal. Even uncontacted hunter gatherer tribes spend most of their days doing absolutely nothing useful whatsoever. They sit around and talk shit with their friends. This is not social control. Humans doing nothing useful for most of the day is the norm.