Letter: Stop the acceleration of matter
Zack Muddle ( Solidarity 653 ) is of course right that the problem is capitalist work, rather than work per se, is driving the ecological crises. But capitalist work is what three billion wage workers do at the moment, and it needs to stop. The capitalist mode of production involves a constant pressure to do more work in less time. We sense this at work through our boss’s efforts to squeeze more work out of our working day. It also manifests as the replacement of human workers with ever more powerful machines. Work is always a physical movement of matter, the creation and distribution of use...