>>546684The enjoyment of the process of crafting things is where the good life is. It is how one imprints upon the world themselves. The creative process of things like cooking is a process that creates a concept of yourself. The ever greater spheres of life that are taken away from you through convenience equals also spheres of life that become colonised by the products of others labour. When that labour is alienated and the corporation creates products that are as broadly acceptable as possible, you begin to consume only commodities that adhere to the bland tastes of the corporation. You begin to lose the skills and faculties to impose the way you wish to live your life on those products. You lose the process and with it you lose the playful expression of yourself through the process.
You become less yourself, your conception of yourself becomes more of brand loyalties and commodity fetishism than a culture shared with communities of production nearby.
No i wouldn't drop cooking if i was rich. I would cook more if i had the time to. The issue with the rich is that they see the process of production as beneath them. That human level craftsmanship and basic chores are things they shouldn't have to do and would be weird for them to find interest in within their class-culture.
Then, because that is the case, the rich find ways to automate all the little joys found in building with your own two hands. They can't imagine why anyone would want to spend time imprinting themselves on things so small and lacking in prestige. So they automate it away and because they have automated it away, we must then automate all that is good in life away to keep pace with them. We used to have time to write letters and grow our own crops. We could mend our clothing and embellish it. Now we barely have time to survive.
Like a child fascinated by a race car because it go big big fast, the rich person is also fascinated with speed, with efficiency. But efficiency to what end? Progress for progress's sake is not progress at all. Because it has no goal but itself it can't be progressing toward anything except maybe speed for speeds sake.
What good is a life filled with trying to carve out endless efficiencies to work faster at jobs that bring no joy? We see this in AI art. Why would you want to learn how to create with your own hands art when you can jus
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