hootOS

HOOT_OS - V.30

Stryxnine Amity Pulsatrix
(30/🇨🇦/Saskatchewan)
NACRS Organizer
esports broadcast producer
plural, autistic, adhd
disability & queer activist
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like, is the only reason you've ever done anything just to make money? have you never made cool things that are not necessary for sustaining life, just because you could? i've offered premium broadcast production services as an audio producer, broadcast producer, graphic designer among other jobs all in one package and sure, i was paid to do it, but if money never existed? i still would have done it because it was fun and it made me feel cool doing it.

in fact the only reason i stopped doing it was because money exists, and i wasn't being paid nearly enough compared to the cost of living for the level of expertise i was bringing to the table. they themselves wished they could pay me more, but couldn't because money prevented them from doing so. if there were no concerns about money on either end, i would have continued to work with them and i could have used my expertise to bring a high-quality viewing experience to their viewers.

like, this is such a depressing way to view the world.


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ugh. where is this from? if it's Twitter, tempted to give them a good laceration...

...I see it in the opposite way. the profit motive gets in the way of creating "better products" because one of the simplest ways to increase profit is cutting corners and starving workers and creators. the ideal profit-making enterprise produces nothing. ~Chara

I've said it before that money is just a socially accepted form of "IOU". You give them an IOU that is of equivalent value to the thing you want and then they take that IOU to someone else and use it for something of equivalent value that they want. You are distributing the bartering process.

Furthermore, money has no intrinsic value, it is assigned value. 1 USD today is not the same value as 1 USD 20 years ago. Same bill, different value.

This even extends into inflation. A lot of goods people perceive as "being expensive" or having "gone up in price" actually haven't budged at all. It's been their wages that have been decreasing, year over year. But this is masked by the fact that this decrease is due to the natural decrease in value of their local currency. So they get paid in the same number of units, but the value of those units is now less. Which means visually it looks like everything is stagnating and increasing, when in reality, it is their worth in this capitalist system that is decreasing. (Though some things are increasing, such as the costs of housing and healthcare, through arbitrary and artificial means.)

A wage is not an incentive to do work, it’s a baseline necessity for the work to be performed.
People work because they get something out of it that isn’t money, be that self satisfaction or working towards a greater personal goal that aligns with their values etc.