Ol' Minecraft DickDec 23, 2018

Imo, one of the most damning aspects of capitalism is that it encourages people to have consumptive hobbies over creative ones.

It actively seeks to bar people from doing things like cooking, or writing, or making pottery, or anything else of that nature. Activities in which you are making something

Things like that are made either too expensive (in terms of money, or time, or both) or framed as something not worth wasting time on, because you can't support yourself doing art/writing/etc

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@Dayglochainsaw Counterpoint: 21st century capitalism loves getting people to do creative hobbies. ESPECIALLY art and writing. Because when they're hobbies, you can use the amateurs to undercut and proletarianize the professionals.
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Valid counterpoint! I'd still say this is an attempt to gut the enjoyment of those hobbies tho, by overworking people to the point of creativite exhaustion
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@Dayglochainsaw Thing is, capitalism really only cares about your productive power. The basic structure of capitalism is "you make 50 dollars of stuff, boss pays you 10." If they could pay you 0 (aka end consumption), they would.

But, turns out that it's a pretty iron law that consumption increases production. So they obsess over your consumption, not because they want you to consume, but because they want you to consume THEIR stuff. It's recycling, basically.

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