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True, they can choose between working a miserable job that at least allows them to live for a bit longer (which is a low fucking bar), or just die out in the streets. Capitalism is magnanimous.

There is nothing voluntary about not wanting to die. It's working under threat.

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Isn't this just how survival works? You hunt / till the land / turn the wheel in the factory / deliver food ordered on the internet / X to eat. It's a lot easier now than before, for sure.

If in 2022, in some of the wealthiest, most advanced countries on the planet, you need to _survive_, there's something pretty fucked up in your society. I'm not saying all out FALGSC no-one needs to work and thrives, but you should be able to live decently without selling your body to corporations treating you as nothing more than expandable meat.

It turns out that it takes raw materials, labor, and energy for you to survive. Someone, possibly you, has to provide those things.

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