You must log in or register to comment.
I personally always imagined witches to be against capitalism, they literally want to be free to pursue their hobbies (witchcraft, gardening, and taking care of a cat).
Also the witch hunts were part of the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism. It was about limiting women’s access to birth control and growing the workforce. “Witches” were usually the midwives of their villages. Women had to be alienated from control over their own bodies before they could be forced into subservient roles as housewives and baby making machines.
Disenfranchising minorities, and especially women, has always been part of the capitalist playbook to keep us oppressed and attacking one another rather than uniting against them.
If we’re talking about fantasy witches, don’t they usually exist at the outskirts of medieval-style kingdoms? They’d be against Monarchy, or Feudal Landlords, if anything. Witches also sell their services to customers that arrive at their huts, so they’re also usually mercantilists by trade.
Witch cooperatives would be pretty rad, though :D
I suppose that’s what covens are 🤔 or are they craft unions?
I mean, I guess they’re religious organizations, but they also function as some kind of trade union.
People play and like the computer game Power Wash Simulator. I bet we can make public sanitation jobs, or any other jobs we can’t automate, that fun and fulfilling.
Powerwash simulator has no right to be as good as it is. It’s an excellent, relaxing experience with an engaging story masquerading as a generic simulator game.
Imagine if we all took turns riding on the back of the truck. Then we wouldn’t get bored with it and it would always be fun.
As a kid, I always wanted to be a trash truck driver. The way they stand on the grid platform and hang on to a handle at the back of the truck was the coolest thing ever to me. My other dream job was to be a train conductor. Maybe once IT bleeds out and dies I’ll switch to one of those.
Apart from one young teenager I knew who really wanted to become a tax consultant - all kids I’ve ever met, be it while I was small myself or while I was tutoring or parenting - want to have “simple” jobs, hands on jobs. Ask kids on the playground and you will hear vet, doctor, and astronaut said along with trash truck driver, waiter, and cleaning lady.
It always breaks my heart that these kids grow up and learn that society gives a crap about certain jobs, be it their low social status and appreciation for their work or their pay. Sure, interests also change when you grow up, but I bet if working conditions, social appreciation and pay were right, we would have much more people happily and freely choosing “low life jobs”.
PS as far as I know the teenager now has a career as a blogger focussing on queer issues with his bf in Berlin, he didn’t become a tax consultant after all.
That is a beautiful observation. Kids are so pure. Sounds like your acquaintance has it made for himself!
The desire to be a train conductor is still strong with me as well.
I mean, you don’t to wait for a witch to turn you into a garbage truck driver. You can just apply for the job. Go on. Go vibe
I’m struggling with this now. In my 20’s I worked all the low-wage crap jobs but I was physically moving a lot.
Now I get paid a lot more to sit on a computer all day at home, and I still love computer programming, web development, building networks, etc.
The problem is I miss it being a hobby. I’m kind of burned out on our work project and sometimes I daydream about going back to work in fast food. Believe it or not I loved working in the kitchen at McDonald’s during lunch rush — it sounds fucking cheesy but my store manager and I used to race to see who could make orders faster without making mistakes.
Going back is just not doable now with the cost of living now.
Edit: I realize writing this makes it sound like I’m calling garbage truck driver a shitty job; my intention originally was to say that I miss physically working (and to an extent being in the world) but I veered off in my late night state
