When it all boils down, you're there doing a job for money because the only way they can get somebody to do it is by paying them. It is a negative thing in your life. That's why you're getting paid to do it.
> It is a negative thing in your life. That's why you're getting paid to do it.
This just isn't automatically the case.
If you have a dream job that fulfills you in every way and is nothing but a positive (I've had three such jobs), you still need to eat, pay bills, etc. So you still need to be paid for it.
How positive or negative the job is doesn't enter into whether or not people need to be paid to do the job.
The biggest problem that I see, is the vagueness of the employer-employee contract. You get hired for a specific job, but in practice employers always demand more and more, and they know they are leveraging the fact that it's hard and/or impractical for most people to switch jobs. They know that employees will do anything they are told because if not someone else will. It's a form of subtle exploitation.
You get hired to work on a small team, but soon enough you have 2x the responsibilities but you only get a small raise. Or you are hired as a technical person but very quickly you are pushed into managing teams and learning the rest of the business. All of this is adds up and it feels like you were hired to do X, but now you are doing XYZ, just because if you don't you lose the job or don't get a small raise.
The fundamental relationship of capitalism, i.e. capital owner employing people to work for him and make him money, is quite toxic. No wonder it seeps into the workplace relationships.
Capitalism is based largely on coercion. The overwhelming majority of people would not be doing what they do most of the time if their needs were already met.
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This just isn't automatically the case.
If you have a dream job that fulfills you in every way and is nothing but a positive (I've had three such jobs), you still need to eat, pay bills, etc. So you still need to be paid for it.
How positive or negative the job is doesn't enter into whether or not people need to be paid to do the job.
Then you're already too deep the capitalist propaganda... Ignorance is bliss
You get hired to work on a small team, but soon enough you have 2x the responsibilities but you only get a small raise. Or you are hired as a technical person but very quickly you are pushed into managing teams and learning the rest of the business. All of this is adds up and it feels like you were hired to do X, but now you are doing XYZ, just because if you don't you lose the job or don't get a small raise.
There are no alternatives