[bobkazamakis]

>seeing employment as exploitation instead of a trade

that's objective reality, sport. That's what profit is - the surplus of value from materials and labor...

It's a trade in that if you don't agree to it, you're completely free to starve on the streets.

[lazide]

Funny that, but I’ve worked at many places that definitely didn’t make a profit! And some that definitely did. Taking risk, organizing and figuring out things in a way that is focused and works, and tying the parts together so the sum is greater than the parts is what makes most businesses profitable.

Are some companies run or managed by exploitive assholes? Sure. Are some folks doing labor exploitive assholes? You bet.

But it’s always more fun to tear down those who have what we don’t and blame them for every problem and isn’t it?

The paychecks came regardless, or they learned that labor has its own power too.

Never felt exploited about it either, and moved somewhere else or just took a break and did what I wanted if I started to feel like it might be. We don’t really need all the trappings we often convince ourselves we need, and it’s a lot lighter without them.

And never once starved for it.

But then, I’ve had to dig trenches before and change diapers and didn’t get paid for that, but then family is pretty communist that way. We all have to make our way, one way or another.

You’re welcome to look at life as harsh and nasty as you want, but you reap what you sow. And that outlook is sowing very bitter seeds indeed.

[bobkazamakis]

This is a long-form mix of projection and complete denial of reality. We all have to make our own way, I'm glad you found yours.

[lazide]

Reading between the lines, it seems like you seem to think that entropy, and therefore the need to do things to continue to survive, is a form of wrong the world has done to you.

that society has a mechanism that allows for one to exchange something others have for something they want, without having to do all the things everywhere on their own, means that society is turning them into a slave somehow.

Which hey, maybe? But stepping back and looking at historical context, it’s pretty laughable.

And in the vein of ‘beliefs that help’ vs ‘beliefs that don’t’ - how does that help you or anyone else right now?