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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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A very compelling narrative, thank you for sharing! Based on my limited understanding of history and economics and sociology, it feels true. But I'm no expert :)
The one point that I don't really understand is:
This doesn't make sense to me. My functional definition is that work is just expending energy to transition something from one state into another. Moving a boulder up a hill is still work, regardless of motivations of the actor. How are you defining "work"?
You can read more about it in "socialism: utopian and scientific" by engels an eye-opening book to me. Really what made me fall in love with marxism. There's also a really cool section about the "mark" at the end which isn't that relevant to know really but I found it very interesting nonetheless. It's a short book but well worth the read.
As for "work" I guess you can go with the physical definition of it, however since we are talking about society i went with a more common understanding of work as in energy spent to produce value. Making that concrete however gets us of course into the weeds of what value is, differences between use-value and exchange-value. So I just tried to sneak it past you 😅