Goddamn people, why didn't anyone post this research data before. It is by Galup, but they usually do an o.k. enough job.
So in 2013 they found out that only 13 percent of employees world-wide are "engaged" in their jobs, or emotionally invested in their work and focused on helping their organizations improve. The data, which are based on nationally representative polling samples in 2011 and 2012 from more than 140 countries, show that 63 percent are "not engaged"—or simply unmotivated and unlikely to exert extra effort—while the remaining 24 percent are "actively disengaged," or truly unhappy and unproductive. And this brings me to the problem: why don't wanna workers overthrow their bosses if they fucking hate working (selling their labor power to porky)? Such data would suggest that an anti-capitalist revolution would have already happened by now, yet it is further that it ever was since Communist manifesto was published. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH OUR SOCIETY?!?!?!?!?!?
Anti-communist propaganda or lack of awareness of alternatives to capitalism in the first place put people in a defeatist position even if they don't realize it.
Eli Young
But see, this is what I don't get. You only stop following your boss and take over the company and you become the management etc.
Leo Hall
Demotivation goes further than the workplace. Many parties I knew had the same percentages as in OP when it came to party work. Faux-enjoyments (tv, partying, vydia, etc.) channel out energies from the movement. Lack of a viable vision of an alternative (and its crushing by the media, CIA, private funds like PragerU , etc.) plays a huge part as well.
Cooper Rivera
This is why I am fascinated with Mark Fisher recently. "He saw that resignation in the Left, in its stubborn commitment to anarchist and anarchist-inspired styles of action and organizing. Reflecting in 2013 on the “exhilarating outbursts of militancy [that] recede as quickly as they erupt, without producing any sustained change” since the financial crash, he observed a sense of “anarchist fatalism” throughout the Left. Activists’ refusal to adopt tactics that could actually vie for power in the state and transform mass media narratives was, he argued, an unwitting reflection of depressive resignation. “Neo-anarchism,” he wrote, “isn’t so much of a challenge to capitalist realism as it is one of its effects.” I am also quite involved in organizing folk, but this is the wall we're always at. It's like some shit for "direct democracy" where we won't try to get any actual power, but to open people's eyes to start self-governing on a local level etc. Of course it doesn't work, as only a fragment of the population come to "self-organized" assemblies etc.
Jace Adams
"workers" would work even less in the scenario you describe, which has been proven time and time again Socialist states. "They pretend to pay you, and you pretend to work." Without private property and personal profit, workers would be even less motivated.
Elijah Diaz
Ye, that's just simply not true. You just made up your whole post.
Mason Adams
my dad was very happy working in old country idk what you're talking about mane
Hunter Nelson
He's just a baiting troll. But a very pathetic one.
Michael Gray
neoclassical "economics" does it again
Anthony Phillips
if you forgive the normie meme
It's undeniable that's Marx's theory of alienation is true, but it doesn't explain everything. Anthropological studies point towards the most fulfilling jobs are the ones where the works contributes noticeably to his community (assuming it can afford him a materially dignified life, natch). Sadly, this is one aspect of relations of production which industrialization has almost extinguished. Virtually no one gets to have that primal satisfaction anymore. Which wouldn't be such a problem, if only it was at all possible for any significant amount of people to work on something they enjoy, regardless of the community-contributing effect. But as we know, very, very few people are lucky enough to make money doing what they like. The 99% of us have to effectively sell half our waking hours doing tasks for which we would gladly turn off our conscious minds in order to spare us from the painful knowledge that you're doing something you hate so that someone else gets richer.
Collectivization of work would, of course, immensely cut down on the alienation, by giving people control over what they do. Unfortunately, that community-contributing satisfaction will still elude us all. Even being on control and getting wealthy won't make a job at the cardboard box factory any less soul-crushing.
So that's why Marx never got a job.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Cooper Davis
Real Talk.
Even Federal Employees with paid pensions don't do what they are supposed to.
There are countless stories each year in which it's found out that all Feds do is watch porn.
Levi Stewart
This is why Child Porn exists in Current Year + 3.
What happens is because FBI just watch Porn they bring in people who are actual Pedos to do all the Pedo cases and they leak out Child Porn.
All people want is money, and they will do whatever they can to get around working.
Asher Wilson
i dunno if this and OP are some stealth attempt at meme points for 'muh innovation incentives' but lemme tell you bucko if you don't own part of the company you're working for, the incentive to try decreases over time
-t oldfag
Ethan Sullivan
1. They lack class consciousness. 2. They are under the constant influence of porky propaganda. 3. Also, as I found out with myself and some of my friends, they simply have no time to think about it.
Yes.
Because they work so much, they have no time to rethink their life choices or ponder on the nature of capitalism.
They can't overthrow capitalism because capitalism.
Ofc this might be different for everyone else, but that's just my experience.
Gabriel Perez
Also also, do you realize how many people get a shit job just to survive? The productivity of workers would SKYROCKET if they did what they wanted to do in life. Just saying.
It's not like people with PHDs like working at Walmart.
Carter Howard
I don't find this surprising. There's low quality service and products everywhere these days. People don't have the luxury of being able to morally care for others if they are working just to survive. If they felt better off, then maybe things would be different. In Nordic countries like Finland, IIRC people report more happiness, and it's theorized that it's because there are more middle class, and less upper and lower class.
Being upper class doesn't really bring happiness, but being lower class means you're struggling and don't have room to care for others. People harbor resentment and cut corners, this negativity gets passed onto other people.
Luis Russell
Why did they delete the post about a lot of US janitors having a PhD?
Austin Myers
Idk
Robert Turner
seems fucky
Cooper Brooks
This is what real praxis looks like fellas
But to answer your question being unengaged doesn't mean you hate your job. It means you just go on autopilot for 8 hours of the day until you get home. To actually hate it would require you to be engaged enough to care about it.
