| This question <143|147> overall <144|146> Thugtorious: <117|155>. (graded A) |
| Question 77: Is it a character flaw to be lazy in an exploitive system? |
| [145] Thugtorious: Character Flaw and McDugall's Answer. There has already been a little discussion of this, but I think that McDugall's response is interesting. He/she says that we must all do our part to keep the system at somewhat of a homeostasis or balance, and that Marx would view a lazy worker as having a character flaw of laziness. However, within the capitalistic mode of production, Marx sees that there is no equality whatsoever. That is one of the largest contradictions, if not the largest contradiction of our day: laborers do all of the work, but do not own the means of production or receive the worth of what they create. Somebody else, either by a ruthless competitive scheme or divine luck of birth, owns the means of production and reaps the benefits of profit merely from ownership. There is no equality. |
| Now, as for laziness, I said it before: it is a flaw of the system itself. A human's natural propensity is to be creative and industrious. However, capitalism takes away any incentive to produce or be creative. The laborers are torn away from the products they create. I don't want to get too deep into alienation, but the products and production itself should help humans become better people and to develop as a race. Unfortunately, in capitalism, the focus is not on the laborer, or even the products that they create, but on the money accumulated by the capitalists. |
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