it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know

Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 346 points –
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If you think about it, Thomas Hobbes was right but on a smaller scale. Society only works when people submit themselves to their bosses.

Did he say that?

Well, he argued that we should all submit ourselves to an absolute sovereign, by which he meant a king or queen. Unfortunately he kind of lost out that argument since most places have rejected absolute monarchy, but luckily, people can still submit themselves to the new ruling class of business and property owners 😊