Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.
Some excellent comments here. The problem isn’t the factories that make manufacturing more efficient, it’s that the people working there often have poor working conditions, are only there because they have no better options, and don’t get any real benefit out of their employers’ success. Fix that, and we can absolutely keep the freedom that comes from having people specialise in specific skills, instead of having to do everything needed for individual survival ourselves

















