A Boring Dystopia

U-oh. Must keep repeating the mantra, that capitalism is the most efficient at distributing resources, harder. Big Baron knows best. Pay no attention to the cognitive dissonance. It's good being owned as mere capita slaves. It's right that we be zapped if we think of our wife. Should be working harder! Pay no attention to the workers dropping off like flies from the stress and burnout. Their diseases are good profit for the corporation! Obey harder!

(/s ~ as if that needs pointed out).

It's a schizoid world

They try to squeeze the last bit of productivity out of the workforce - while salaries stagnate.

Sure, there are studies that show that a good work-life-balance (like the 4 day workweek) increase productivity and reduce sic days - but that doesn't feel right.

It gives the boss a much better feeling to scream at his employees, force overtime, micromanage, set impossible goals and work them to the bone. How can you feel like a boss if you don't increase your workers misery?

If you whip your horses they pull the chariot faster. 

If you keep whipping them they pass out from exhaustion or injure themselves and have to be killed. 

Why use long-term thinking when short-term thinking do trick (in the short term)

Humans suddenly evolve into a species getting off on electrocution.

electrocutes you when you think about your wife

Fuck yeah, sign me up. But now I'm masturbating at my desk instead of in the bathroom.

Productivity shouldn't be the be all and end all but that's a different debate

People in the US go hungry, the US government has so much cheese in stockpile that they use caves/abandoned mines to store it.

It reminds me of the story about that guy who trained his donkey to go with less food, and just as he was getting it to go with no food at all,the stupid animal died.

We don't want people being productive long term. We need to chew people up and spit them out young so we have enough work for the endless unwashed hoards.

But also, we have a declining birthrate problem and nobody wants to work anymore.

And also, AI will do all our work for us and since most of us don't own any capital we can be made into fertilizer.

Its about how to best exploit you not how to make you most productive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6RfTdNOHFA

Capitalism is fine enough if properly regulated. But that, of course, is the problem. Properly regulaing it.