i'm sorry, but when i see waves of people standing up for personalized mail delivery, i interpret it as a lot of people that are fighting to uphold the status quo because they lack the vision to see beyond it and because they're used to the convenience it provides, at the expense of the freedom of workers.

you really can't get your own mail? you really require enslaving somebody to bring you your letters?

and your spam?

do you tip them when they arrive?

"it provides jobs!". ugh.

first, people that are arguing that obsolete industries should be maintained because they provide jobs are completely missing the entire point of socialism. there's no path to communism in maintaining humans in wage slavery jobs that can be done by machines or distributed equally across the population. that's some kind of wonky capitalist keynesianism designed to uphold the propertied classes, or something. communism is centered in the idea that monotonous, crappy work should be abolished either by mechanization or by distributing it equally amongst everybody.

second, what to say of these workers? "no, please, don't emancipate me from slavery!"...."as workers, we must unite to ensure our continued exploitation!". ugh. it would make me depressed if it didn't enrage me.

when you take a step back and see it from a distance, you realize it's reactionary. it's a conservative knee-jerking to uphold existing social relations. if i were to show up at the rallies, it would only be to ironically distribute pamphlets written by edmund burke. or perhaps jonathan swift...