I heard that back in the days, people used to just go when their work was done on the farms and there was no concept of 9-5 (these days seem 24 hours work). There used to be a lot of holidays. Is that true? If it is, then given the abundance in technology, why our work hours increased and why do we have such weird lives that we live to work?

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    Are you South Asian? This extreme mentality I only found in South Asians being a South Asian myself.

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        2 months ago

        Not that but the way you are eating rich. The slaughter thing is quite brutal and against human rights.

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            But it will never happen cuz you know whenever a country tries to be a socialist economy, Uncle Sam buys people from that country and always make sure to not let that happen. As long as there is Uncle Sam, world can never have a socialist economy.

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                2 months ago

                for example? USSR is no more China is state capitalist Scandinavian countries are welfare states?

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                    China has censorships and not freedom of speech and if this is the case what you are telling, why are there billionaires in China or from China? What about Jack Ma, was he removed anonymously cuz he criticized Chinese system or what?

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                    In China, the commanding heights of the economy are all publicly owned, and medium firms are largely publicly owned.

                    Yes, state owned, which suits the definition of state capitalism:

                    A state-capitalist country is one where the government controls the economy and essentially acts as a single huge corporation, extracting surplus value from the workforce in order to invest it in further production

                    And most importantly

                    This designation applies regardless of the political aims of the state, even if the state is nominally socialist.