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| Question 78: Is it a character flaw to be lazy in an exploitive system? |
| [23] Kaha: In an exploitive system, the worker obviously feels exploited, and would naturally not want to give their best, or in this case, become lazy. I don't think that it is a character flaw of the worker, but a character flaw of the person or the company doing the exploiting. I do believe that a person should do their best to earn what they make, but when they do their best but don't make what they deserve, then I could see how one could be lazy. |
| In Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto, he talks about the oppression or in this case the exploitation, of the proletariat, or the working class, by the upper-class. Later in the book he said that one of the biggest criticisms of communism was that if it did come about, “a universal laziness” would happen because workers would be given the same wages. I think that in some ways this is right, because if everyone is making the same amount for doing harder or easier work, ya, that might happen. But in the case when there is no profit made but instead all the profit is given to the workers, then no, a universal laziness won't happen and production would probably increase. Sorry, but I thought that applied to the question at hand. |
| Coming back to the question, like I said above, when there is no profit, but an equal portion given out to all the workers, there would be no laziness or not as much, so what I believe needs to happen is to get rid of the exploitive system, not necessarily adopting communism, but adopting a different way of paying the proletariat. And no, I don't believe that it is a character flaw to be lazy in an exploitive system. It's self-preservation. |
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