The difference is in your example the majority of your labor benefits you.
Currently most working people pay off the cost that their existence incurs before age 40. But most people won’t get to retire.
Every year the ratio of work/life keeps getting shifter further away from life. And pretending like Capitalism does us any favors is just ignoring the more practical solutions at this point.
If capitalism didn’t exist and we just had a more archaic society, it would almost invariably be agrarian and you’d need to work for food or also die.
It’s not largely different.
The difference is in your example the majority of your labor benefits you.
Currently most working people pay off the cost that their existence incurs before age 40. But most people won’t get to retire.
Every year the ratio of work/life keeps getting shifter further away from life. And pretending like Capitalism does us any favors is just ignoring the more practical solutions at this point.