[munchler]

> It doesn't matter if life improves if the only choices one has in life is either live under the power imbalance of wage labor or extract value from those who do.

Most people choose this system, when given a vote via democracy, even when they have to live under the power imbalance. For Marx to be right, you have to argue that these people are deluded somehow, which isn't particularly convincing.

[doubleyou]

when did you choose? only 24 countries or so have full democracy (note the US and china, the largest economies, do not qualify) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

[kelseyfrog]

For me, for Marx to be right, I just have to observe that my employer and I have different incentives that often means our priorities conflict and for the most part their priorities take precedence.

Perhaps this feeling is less common than I thought?

[ibash]

> Most people choose this system, when given a vote via democracy

Are you talking about American voting or something else? When’s the last time they’ve been realistically given this choice?

Even if your premise was true there’s a simpler explanation: after you enter this system it’s extremely hard to get out of it from within the system itself. No delusion required.

[Rury]

People don't need to be deluded, just ignorant. And you don't even need that, just having a different set of priorities would suffice.