• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    factories are big and made of thousands of people and machines

    Sometimes. For some things. Not always. Especially for simpler products with fewer parts!

    A steel butt plug factory could convievably have a dozen or so employees and be perfectly fine, make lots of butt plugs. How many people seriously need to work on that? You’re either casting them or machining them, plus some finishing, maybe testing and packaging–and it’s a product that benefits from being fewer pieces. I just used butt plugs because it’s fun to say and ive seen sex toy factories and single piece metal thing factories, so it isn’t a complete ass pull when i think about how stuff is made.

    You seem obsessed with these ideas you have in your head, with no attention to reality. You’re being very idealist for someone who claims not to be.

    Again, you’re conceptualizing jobs=people. You’re shackled to capitalist abstractions and unable or unwilling to see past them. It’s incredibly frustrating because I have to restate every principle every time, and be really pedantic.