But the rich man’s ego of pretending to be a saint by doing charity. THINK OF THEIR FEELINGS!
Responsibility also lies the people. We have no respect for our belongings, frequently trash working tools, computers and other goods. Replace the old with new, for the sake of keeping up with the times. Even cheap knives and other edged tools can be sharpened thousands of times before requiring replacement. Most are never sharpened at all.
The classic tale of a dining table made to last for generations, paid for by the father, be tossed by the son for something made by Ikea. As a woodworker, ive seen firsthand that the biggest killer of fine, handmade furniture.
It isn’t time, it’s us.
I partly disagree. I think we are already past the point where people were able to change the world by fiscal choices. The answer is already there: the money people own grows slowly if even in some countries, the money circulating altogether grows somewhat steeper thanks to inflation and (war cost) depts, making peoples choice less and less effective and able to change a fuckingthing. I won’t cease trying to find a way though, just to make it a whiney bit more costly to get to me xD Heads up!
2/3s of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and americans consume multiple X what even wealthy Europeans do.
The issue is that people are unhappy then they try to fill that void with buying stupid shit no one needs, going for fancy cars to match their neighbors, oversized houses they don’t need and can’t afford.
Ofc there are other systemic issues like the racist origins having single family house zoning and lack of public transport which is the most reliable predictor of social mobility.
But still, people make dumb choices, spend recklessly.
Yeah, so many people seem to buy new shit just to buy new shit. Even when the new thing is lower quality. Hell, my parents did it with their house. I’m constantly surprised by the crap my family and friends spending their money on. Most of my stuff is second hand that they’ve been throwing out.
Dude same. There is NOTHING wrong with old and many times its BETTER because corporate enshittification hadnt reached an all time high until recently because of the invention plateau we are in now.
Buddy just discovered communism
Upcycling is not communism.
Treating symptoms instead of the root cause is idealistic and utopian
COVID taught me Americans enjoy grifting, soo
Only 8 dudes but we as 300M+ can’t even come together and depose them
Half of them praise those 8 men tho. So you’re 150M of individuals vs 150M of individuals and $3T
Because it isn’t true lol
Ok
You misspelled decapitate
Fucking soft, removing my comment. Remove billionaire heads from their necks or their boot will stay on yours.
Ah, yes, this is only about 'Murica.
Someone says something that applies to the world, 'murica brain can’t comprehend that they aren’t the only ones.
That 300M+is inclusive. Your comment is Proof we can’t come together to depose a few rich assholrs
If you intended all of humanity you should have written 8B+, not 300M+.
The Americans could learn from the French in regard to labor laws what happens when the government and corporations try to fuck them over. General Strike.
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My problem with this is that most people think the solution is to ask politely leveraging peaceful protests and waving signs.
When in reality this has been a popular concept that is protested for the past 100 years with ZERO actual progress, and the real solution to properly implement this kind of generous socialist idea of distribution of wealth and food and shelter with equity requires aggressive rhetoric and likely needs to be enforced with actual violence, otherwise fascism and capitalism will continue to persist for generations.
Actual violence was used by the rich to create this current moment too. It is all they know or will understand.
Violence to free us from oppression isn’t violence to oppress. Get your priorities correct. Your food is stored for use, take it. Don’t starve. You were taxed for it, it’s yours.
That’s what I’m saying, I’m sharing perspective that they violently keep us in check all the time. Non-violence can work, but most discussion around it is proposing from the ruling class to keep us from rising up.
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However I disagree in solely nonviolence tactics, it’s violence to liberate, and nonviolence to collaborate.
What’s happening in the 🇺🇲 is counter-nonviolence tactics.
I was there witnessing all the noneffective protests. Get a back bone, liberate folks in death camps.
Honestly, I think most people don’t even see it as a problem. Anyone who is better off than the average person likely doesn’t want stuff to get handed out for free. It’s easy to think “I struggled to get my stuff and now we’re just going to give it out for free!?”
It’s like someone finally paying off their student loan after years of thrifty spending and going without and then seeing their classmate who didn’t pay a dime towards theirs, instead spending on frivolous luxuries and going on yearly trips, having it forgiven. The person who did things “the right way” feels like they got played.
Unless people who have gone through struggles to improve their situation can avoid feeling slighted, they’re unlikely to be supportive of change.
Okay, so why aren’t people upset that some joker who wasn’t smart enough to get a physics degree and switched majors because it was too hard, then had a sure thing handed to him by the company he was working for arguably because he was bad at his job, started a business that took less than a month of work to become profitable, and then became one of the world’s richest men by exploiting the desperate working class? Why aren’t people angry about that?
While my anecdotal story won’t mean much in the sea of Internet comments, i look at it from a societal point of view; when I graduated college, I came out with $100k in debt, no job, and no way to make ends meet. I did work hard through jobs and through as many clever ways to move the debt around as much as possible. Eventually, after many years, they were paid off. Student loans are a curse cast by the greedy predatory schools and lenders that make empty promises.
Who am I to get upset when someone figures out a way, or stumbles into a way to release them from that curse? In the long run, the sooner loans are paid off/forgiven, the sooner it will help everyone else.
The most important asset to any country is it’s people, so why wouldn’t we want to take care of each other in every way possible? We all live on the same rock together, so why not try to make life less painful for everyone.
Will people take advantage of it? Of course. There is no way to prevent that, but if resources are provided or made easier to access, then it makes it less likely for people to take advantage of it.
Do I think that will ever happen? Probably not, it’s a utopian ideal and it would take such a major paradigm shift to get people to have empathy for others and to help lift each other up during rough times. I still think it’s something to strive for, even if we only achieve a fraction of that utopia.
Also anecdotally, among my friends the ones who had it paid for/scholarships are against relief while the ones who paid it off themselves are for it. It does kinda feel like those who went through it want to save others from having to do it to
This. You cant give back the thousands of hours studying instead of living life and hanging out with friends, then the lazy person that only partied gets all their shit paid for. That isn’t gonna fly.
Or maybe instead of crying over the spilled milk you can bite the bullet and accept that at the very least future is going to be better. Because otherwise it’s not ‘I got mine you got nothing’, but instead ‘I want to continue suffering just for you to suffer, too’
Im all for that but thats not going to be 99% of people’s reactions. Thats like you working 40 years to afford a small house then your young neighbor shows up and builds a mansion from scratch while they never worked a day (this is why I dont understand why people (IRL) dont hate billionaires more, thats literally their life).
Peaceful protesting does work. But the sit in and get arrested kind. Waving signs doesn’t do much. People aren’t miserable enough yet to misbehave.
Also the don’t work and grind the economy to a screeching halt kind.
Omg i saw this on Tumblr today and almost posted it XD
In nearly every system, individuals often find ways to exploit or manipulate the rules; it’s part of human nature. When money is involved, this becomes even more dangerous, as it can allow someone to amass significant wealth in a small factor bill instead of the goods. This dynamic is so deeply embedded in modern society that reversing it seems impossible. Those who possess great wealth have the choice to either share it or hoard it. In many ways, when it comes to money, we seem to have regressed rather than progressed. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas once lived with a freedom and simplicity that many today could never imagine. This is why some argue that the ideal future citizen should own nothing and live off a minimal amount of land, embracing a simpler, more sustainable way of life.
And when the primates with the money and the power exploit their ‘lessers’ so much that we start dying from it, it’s perfectly natural and normal to rise up and rip them into little bits and leave their dismembered corpses out for the buzzards.
Exploitative individuals may well be a part of human nature, but cooperating with other humans to build communities that are greater than the sum of its parts is human nature too.
I don’t believe that it’s possible to necessarily reverse the toxic dynamic you describe, but I do believe that it is possible to move forward in a way that is more productive for wellness. Maybe I just believe this because it’s what I need to believe in order to not go mad and top myself, but I’ll take the free hope.
Have you seen the cost of the figs???
If only a significant percent of the population didn’t feel the need control other peoples lives.
If people would organise themselves that percent would be powerless.
The people who would do the organizing in this case are going to have a disproportionate amount of power, and since power corrupt, they’ll become the new elite.
So organise in a way that doesn’t amass power.
Social organization requires hierarchies, and hierarchies are inherently unequal in terms of power and status.
Innovate on that.
Innovate?
Yes, like Greek Democracy only had hierarchies for wars. We most likely haven’t already tried all possible forms of social organizations.
The right given by the “democratic” capitalist state to own the means of production is the root cause of this problem
I love the quotation marks here. We have two parties that are both team stock-market/GDP, and there is no third option: we can hardly be called a democracy.
I mean, between our FPTT voting system, the electoral college and rampant gerrymandering we have absolutely no right to call ourselves a democracy.
And the worst part of it is that I wouldn’t even want to be slacking off all day. I want to do so many things, and I would do it if I weren’t being paid! Fuck!
