/lit/ - Literature

>>18544100
>Do you mean it's just the machines doing the labor?
Pic related. No, I mean, it's just *animals* serving the machines now.

>>18544012
>In other words, you want to return to trad steampunk aesthetics
No, I'm telling you this: humans when under condition "we own shit, we create, we take responsibilty" act in a manner that can be considered "healthy". they live through their work/deeds, they produce great things, they act like human beings.
(This a common theme among philosophers. Fucking everyone would tell you this: Arendt, Nietzsche, John Dewey, etc.)

"And like the star that goeth out, so is every work of your virtue: ever is its light on its way and travelling—and when will it cease to be on its way?
Thus is the light of your virtue still on its way, even when its work is done. Be it forgotten and dead, still its ray of light liveth and travelleth.
That your virtue is your Self, and not an outward thing, a skin, or a cloak: that is the truth from the basis of your souls, ye virtuous ones!—
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That ye might become weary of saying: “That an action is good is because it is unselfish.”
Ah! my friends! That your very Self be in your action, as the mother is in the child: let that be YOUR formula of virtue!" (c) Nietzsche

When you merely get a job on some factory, do bureucratical routines and obey orders, you become a slave. You just do what you are told to do, you burn your life-hours away, and you consume shit to forget yourself during a few hours of your after-work spare time.

>but you can't because History is unstoppable
Well, then we're fucked. As simple as that.


>>18544088
>This may result in commodities being cheaper
Even for some medieval peasants, commodities were integrated into a network of meaningfulness and relationships. You didn't just get a broom, or a jug. It had a history, your neighbour crafted it for you.
Now, you get a new iphone every month. It is not a thing of craft, it's a thing to consume and shit out. Like some cheeseburger.

>Dildos for everyone, but you can't afford a mortgage and must rent forever like a serf.
Peasant's were okay with relative austerity, because they had meaning. Your plight is, however, "we don't get to consume as much as masters", whereas the true problematic lies in "We don't get to become human beings".