/lit/ - Literature

>>15374708
Industrial labour, not capitalism. As much as I'm no believer in the Marxist theory that mankind only finds purpose in labour, I do have to admit that labour becomes meaningless when I cannot see the the people whose lives I'm improving, and I can't hear their thanks cause I'm locked in my wage-cage. We always find it easier to act in morally pleasant ways when we get praise for what we do. Morality relies on the idea that a reward for certain actions is highly likely, if not certain. Industralism takes away this moral component from labour; with industrialism, we work only out of self-interest, and that is ruinous to our mental health. We are social creatures and therefore like it best when we can live for others without interference or economic imperatives that radically conflict with our social existence.

So modern life is therefore characterized by continually being forced to do meaningless tasks just to survive, but with the key factor that survival is often the only goal of our work. We are warped by this experience of the concrete jungle; an artificial state of nature produced from the routines of industrialism.

>>14242596
God is not mocked, this is what happens when generations of people have played fast and loose with the natural order. It's a scourge known as social experimentation.

And we're bankrupt, but that's probably better than more social experiments.