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The gen z stare. I like that. I think ive seen it a few times too but just figured they had a bad day. But its maybe something much bigger. A desire to not be a slave to the system.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Except that companies are the one's literally purchasing labor.

Framing it the other way around paints a world where a corporation is doing individual humans a favor merely by existing. When in reality, it is being enabled by workers providing their labor. At least for now.

It's a trade. Where one side is providing the literal time people have on this earth, and the other is a corporation that produces whatever it produces. Or consumes, even.

The latter should literally never be the one with an advantageous position. It exists to server human interests, not itself. It simply can't be worth more than the actual lives of people.

And before you go "sure it can be" I'm not talking about how capitalism turns everything into market-defined value.

The way the author of the article thinks about this stuff is not just out of touch. It's sickening. And people like them are why modern society regularly tramples over real lives for the benefit of imaginary value.