Much like unemployment, they exist precisely because of capitalism. It’s inherent to the system, and that’s been know since its early days, and people like Marx and Marcuse wrote plenty about it.
He also talks about the Northern European life cycle is in part what gave way to capitalism. In the late medieval times, it was common that every craftsman had their own workshop and before they could afford one, they want around and worked for wages until they could buy their own. So wage labor was seen as a juvenile phase that has a value in its own because it’s pedagogical. Later, people were stuck in this phase and it was still seen as an end in itself. This is in addition to what Marx and Weber had to say about the beginning of capitalism.
You will love the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. It’s basically about jobs nobody needs and why they exist
Much like unemployment, they exist precisely because of capitalism. It’s inherent to the system, and that’s been know since its early days, and people like Marx and Marcuse wrote plenty about it.
He also talks about the Northern European life cycle is in part what gave way to capitalism. In the late medieval times, it was common that every craftsman had their own workshop and before they could afford one, they want around and worked for wages until they could buy their own. So wage labor was seen as a juvenile phase that has a value in its own because it’s pedagogical. Later, people were stuck in this phase and it was still seen as an end in itself. This is in addition to what Marx and Weber had to say about the beginning of capitalism.