cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/onehundredninetysix/p/449273/food-is-literally-rule
Food is literally rule
Edit: Could you please chill it with the taking everything so bloody seriously? It’s low-hanging fruit leftist agitprop from c/196. It doesn’t aim to be coherent with the very letter of Marx or whatever leftist group/cult-leader you prefer.
Op has never worked a day on a farm in their life. Id bet probably hasnt even seen one in real life before.
We had a small farm growing up. Ten acres farm/field, 5 acres woods. One acre garden, all the animals.
Was it hard? Yes, I spent my summers in the field as a kid/teen instead of out at the mall with my friends. My work ethic is impeccable, so long as I agree the job I’m doing is helpful, moral and ethical.
That’s what the post is talking about, the value of your own labor for your own benefit.
The head of the household, ran that farm. He worked 38 hours in three days at an employee owned factory, with weekend differential and paid for 40 hours. The other five days, he worked the farm with his three children as helpers. It was a lot of work, even in winter, a lot of work. But the payoff was worth it, the feeling you get producing your own food is fantastic.
No I don’t want to go punch in for minimum wage serving coffee or work at a non employee owned factory where there give you a $1 more than minimum wage and pluck your ass at an injection molding machine. But I would, and do, work hard turning my small plot into a food garden every fucking summer, to try and remember my roots, because the effort is valuable to me, as it’s my own, and the pay off my own to share with whom I want.
Do you have a big like, Ag farm? We had a small family farm, big Ag is much different for sure, but the work to payoff is different when you’re in business for yourself vs a company.
It’s low hanging fruit socialist agitprop from c/196. Don’t overthink it, comrade.