Cy on Nostr: I dunno, since capitalism started being a thing, productivity has never been higher. ...

I dunno, since capitalism started being a thing, productivity has never been higher. We're producing more products and extracting more resources faster than any point in history, and it shows no sign of slowing down. So it feels a little... "off" to say that capitalists are stopping workers from being productive. You're undeniably correct; I just think there might be a better way of framing it that doesn't give labor implicit value.

Capitalists do, after all, unemploy the "workers" (people) who are not productive.