"Amusement Labor"from the Perspective of Transmutation:Exploiting Leap,Dialectical Essence and Extension Path
"Amusement labor",as a free digital labor in digital platforms,refers to users generating data in various forms during the digital entertainment process,ultimately creating value for the platform,and essentially possessing labor attributes.Compared to other forms of paid digital labor,the differences between the two involve both the evolution of social conditions and the evolution of underlying exploitation methods.Under the"amusement labor",the lifestyle has shifted from"things"to"non-things",and the original"enslaved"exploitation has also begun to extend and transform towards"liberal"exploitation.However,in essence,"amusement labor"and vari-ous adjustments of capital in history are all helpless changes made by capital in the face of the resistance of workers and the increasingly powerless old exploitation methods,in order to prolong its own development.It already fore-shadows the arrival of a"singularity"of exploitation:the chronic illness of capitalism itself,and the struggle be-tween labor and capital are gradually leading workers to a critical state of free and comprehensive development.