A dictatorship sounds horrible to people who live in liberal democracies because what's considered dictatorial is so much outside the "normal". Freedom of speech, right to dissent, right to unionize are all enjoyed by people under a democracy..or is it?

Take what's "normal" and inspect how many of these rights are really there in a place we access daily and spend a considerable amount of time at; the workplace. You won't be surprised to find that many of it aren't really there.

The workplace is a little dictatorship with the top managers being the dictators who even get to decide how many pee breaks we get to take.

If it weren't for the labor unions and the laws that provide some kind of a protection, you're boss would be happy to have you work for humanly impossible hours and pay you little to nothing. Oh wait, that's already happening around the world even with these laws in place.

Some would say that the worker has all the freedom to change his place of work for a better one in case the employer doesn't guarantee a fair wage, safe working conditions, etc. That's not an option available uniformly across the job spectrum. If the employers collectively keep the ceiling too low, there wouldn't be a "better wage" to trade your previous job for.

The ones who are paid fairly for their services would argue that this isn't their case. They maybe at a better place in terms of wages and working conditions, but how better?

Work is compulsory production that is forced upon us by an economic system. We can contribute to the system or starve. That's not really a choice, neither are we free.

We never wanted to trade a third of a day that we'll never get back in exchange for something that saves us from homelessness and starvation and the rest of the time in service of the hours spent working and keep trapped in the cycle for decades. The time we don't work are spent getting ready for, going to, coming back from and recovering from work. If that's what "free time" is , then free time itself is a scam.

In Bob Blacks words, "free time is the euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at it's own expense both to and from the work place, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair. Lathes and typewriters don't do that. Workers do".

We structure our daily life around work so much that we're in a way living to work. We eat to not go hungry at work, we sleep to recover from fatigue caused by work, we wake up early to go to work. In the absence of the situation that makes us wage slaves, we'd have plenty of other activities to do. Activities, the experience of which itself is rewarding.

We'd love to spend our time with our loved ones, talk, travel, explore, play or listen to music, paint, try out new food, sleep, relax on a beach, go on a hike, learn things that are of interest to us etc. Given the chance to do so, we'd do these all day, everyday. But since the threat of going broke looms over us, we sell a portion of our life everyday hoping that we'll actually get to live on weekends or worse, post retirement.

It's not up for a debate that this isn't the best way to exist. Next time you hear someone complain "Nobody wants to work anymore", correct them.

NOBODY EVER WANTED TO WORK!