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> I don't care about inequality at all cheap products from 3rd world cheap nature resources from 3rd world cheap labor from 3rd world that's why many of the
by suraci 2y ago
> I don't care about inequality at all
cheap products from 3rd world
cheap nature resources from 3rd world
cheap labor from 3rd world
that's why many of the free citizens of the Empire don't need to care about inequality at all
when these things change, you will care
- poincaredisk 2y agoSo you're saying I should actually want to increase inequality? Obviously sarcasm, but taking your argument at face value this is what rational (not necessarily moral) citizen of europe/usa should think. For that reason I don't think this is a good argument.
- suraci 2y agoit's not sarcasm or an argument, and it's not a morality criticism i'm just saying that there are reasons why people can "calmly" and "rationally" view inequality. when those reasons change, they will lose their composure. and this is not new > In a letter to Kautsky, dated September 12, 1882, Engels wrote: “You ask me what the English workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general. There is no workers’ party here, there are only Conservatives and Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of England’s monopoly of the world market and the colonies.”