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“I wish I didn’t have to do anything but farm and raise animals to sustain myself” No brykinleigh that’s called subsistence farming and our ancestors preferred 14 hour work days and child labor in factories to escape it
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Anonymous 10w

They didn’t necessarily prefer it, the material circumstances just changed and for many subsistence farming simply was not possible. Read all about it in Capital vol 1 chapter 27

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Anonymous 10w

The people that say this never been in the sun for longer than 5hrs, and never had to do hard labor while at it. They don’t understand how to farm, what it takes to subsistence farm, bc before you’re able to eat the food you need about 2-5yrs to get your plants mature and good enough to eat, you have to live off limited options, it’s a way of life that is EXTREMELY hard. Harder than people think. Even tho we work more than our predecessors, most of us could not do what would be needed

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Anonymous replying to -> __dad__ 10w

They didn’t one day go “hey fellow peasants, what if we all pool our money together and build a factory instead!?”

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Anonymous replying to -> __dad__ 10w

primitive accumulation baybeee

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Anonymous replying to -> __dad__ 10w

I mean the majority of them let their farming towns and moved to the big cities to work in a factory

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Anonymous replying to -> __dad__ 10w

It happened in the US 100 years ago and in China 20 years ago. Urbanization

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

You’re thinking of normal all capitalist farmers with a daughter that wants to explore the big city trope

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Anonymous replying to -> __dad__ 10w

Normal ass**

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Anonymous replying to -> __dad__ 10w

A factory job even if it’s someone else’s factory is more stable than farming where you’re fully dependent on the weather and diseases to not starve you. Also farming is 24/7. Even tho workers had horrendous working hours. In a city you have one monotonous job compared to the maintenance of a farm and animals and equipment and all that. It’s still a hard life but there is also much faster social mobility associated with city work over farming.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

We’re not talking about farming vs factory work and what we think is preferable, we’re talking about the historical transition from subsistence farming to factory work, which is a whole different story that does not depend on whether people enjoyed it or not. I seriously encourage you to read ch 27 of capital to understand what I’m getting at

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