I believe you are either misunderstanding me or I am doing a poor job explaining myself, the former is more likely.
No society, regardless of its ideologies, will function without people working. From anarchy to fascism, and everything in between. Not even the anarcho-communist utopia I would prefer to see would work if nobody was making food or fixing up buildings.
I am just saying that our socialization predates the commodification of work. People did that before Adam Smith or Karl Marx or Adolf Hitler. We find ways to cooperate or fight.
The social isolation, which I did experience myself when I worked from home - and didn't care for - is due in part to the commodification of labor as well. People in retirement homes socialize, and most of them aren't working. Same with prisons. Work isn't necessary for socialization. It can help, but it's just a means to an end for many workers.
We live in separate houses, mostly, and many of us who live in apartment buildings may or may not even know our neighbor's names. We have our own cars, rather than taking public transportation. There are obviously pluses and minuses to all of these things.
It's all related. I personally believe a lot of it has been done deliberately, or at least it's been utilized that way over time. Why cubicles? Open office floorplans kinda suck, too, but cubicles are weird concepts to me in terms of segmenting workers. Like the drones get the cubes, and the boss gets the corner office. Why do many work places discourage workers speaking with one another except as it relates to work?
It's all meant, I think, to get us to not work together and take power back from the wealthy, basically. Just mentioning the word "union" here in the south in a workplace that isn't already unionized, be prepared to hunt for a new job.
I see the whole concept of taking pride in labor to enrich someone else as internalizing their exploitation of the value of my labor. I take pride in work that I have chosen and do for myself, not in getting my boss's bathroom remodeled.
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