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I don’t really see the inequality of representation and taxation in capitalism as any less authoritarian. If everything I do is being validated for value by ma
by meh99 5y ago
I don’t really see the inequality of representation and taxation in capitalism as any less authoritarian.
If everything I do is being validated for value by management and bosses, and my buying power is managed by bankers who have inflationary powers to dilute my earnings, we’ve just made managed economy ephemeral. We’ve socially normalized grift and protection rackets.
Some estimates suggest up to 30% of inmates are innocent. And when plenty are in there for marijuana, that’s a bit more petty than a billionaire disrupting an entire society.
Rather than real prisons we let people die on the streets from preventable disease so we can say we didn’t force anyone into anything as if letting them rot is glass half full.
It’s a shame the “I am educated and worldly” community hasn’t put much though into the depth to which relativity applies to human existence.
If we’re going to intentionally avoid lifting people up at the cost of putting agency into propping up the already rich, well, the poor can never experience the alternative to form meta opinions.
This bantering in traditional political memes is patronizing and ignorant af given our scientific understanding of reality.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoIf you don’t see a difference, but millions of others do, it might be worth steel manning the opposite of your conclusions. It’s a useful rhetorical exercise at least.
- meh99 5y agoMillions see sky wizards, should I? I get the difference. It doesn’t absolve our culture of ignoring it’s deficiencies. But look what happens at a university in 2008 when students simply sit on the ground. Is there a difference? Or have we just accepted our fate? I don’t think I’m the one that needs to take tour advice.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThere might be a difference between belief in sky wizards and belief in taxation in capitalism being as authoritarian…
- meh99 5y agoI was not speaking to taxation. I’m speaking to private influence on wages, regressive taxation, privilege for the financial elite, the real health issues and costs of extreme inequality as being authoritarian. Relativity; being poor isn’t a character flaw. Lack of experience means not knowing what one should be fighting for. Relativity is a scientific fact yet in the free world we enable class-based suffering. Do we throw them in a gulag? No, we let them rot in the open in tents under bridges, and complain about it. We’re far more civilized. Even for engineers buying power is incredibly diminished by inflation to prop up Bloomberg’s and grandpa’s property portfolio he was able to afford starting in 1970. Normalized agency in deference to political nostalgia not what communities need isn’t constrained to China and has real consequences on lives. Is it jackboots with machine guns? No. But the effects are just as measurable.
- lawnchair_larry 5y ago> Some estimates suggest up to 30% of inmates are innocent. And when plenty are in there for marijuana, that’s a bit more petty than a billionaire disrupting an entire society. It seems like you haven’t actually done much research before forming your opinions. This isn’t the most outlandish claim you’ve made, but it’s the easiest to falsify. This entire narrative is ignorant and fantastical.