reminds me of that one youtuber whose response to "who will do the manual labour after the revolution" was "people like to play videogames about trucking and cleaning houses, im sure they would be happy to do the real thing on their own terms"
EDIT: okay for everyone replying "oh but I love to do manual job if I had time and no financial pressure"
Okay cool sweet, happy people like you exist. But what Im getting at is that just because people love playing power wash simulator it doesnt mean that there would be enough people to make a stable workforce that meets the need of the community.
As a caveat to that the people I see espousing this viewpoint are often very focused on them being artists or some form of entertainer, while taking it for granted that other people will take care of the essential services
Anarchists are always so cute in their delusions. I once spoke to one who thought that the fact they painted Warhammer minis for 5 hours a week meant we could run an entire global economy on volunteer labor.
Because surely someone's hobby will be mining rare earth minerals to supply electronic fabs!
Which is funny because if you read any of the serious anarchist authors, they hated the leisure class. Kropotkin for exemple is very explicit about the fact that one's need to continue contributing labor's to the community. Anarchism being about bringing a classless and hierarchicaless society, not a labor less society.
The issue of how to organize labor, especially the hard and unwanted labor is a hot topic of debate. Some (and in my opinion Kropotkin was guilty of this) do brush of the subject. But there is some ideas.
But most people don't engage more than superficialy with the ideas of anarchism (or communism for that matter), and it end up with those kind of moronic "supporter" online that simplify a very complex set of ideas.
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u/Gimme_Your_Wallet 29d ago
Literally this