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> economic freedom, which is a basic freedom recognized in most modern democratic nations The freedom to work your butt till the grave for little trinkets you
by ath3nd 1y ago
> economic freedom, which is a basic freedom recognized in most modern democratic nations
The freedom to work your butt till the grave for little trinkets you don't need and renting a house you can no longer buy while your feudal lords fly around with private jets, buy out Venice for their wedding or send their wife to space. That's the life as Adam Smith intended it to be!
- znpy 1y agothere is so much middle ground between "i can open my own coffee bar" and "hurr durr jeff bezos bad" that if you can't get it, the problem is yours.
- ath3nd 1y agoI mean, enjoy your lack of healthcare, stagnating wages, at will employment, no workers rights, no paid vacation and corporations polluting your waterways and giving you products with lead and PFAs. Hurr durr capitalism so good that our brains and blood are largely plastic and our world is burning. If you can't understand why that is happening to you, the problem is yours.
- znpy 1y ago> I mean, enjoy your lack of healthcare, stagnating wages, at will employment, no workers rights, no paid vacation and corporations polluting your waterways and giving you products with lead and PFAs. Lol I'm not us american, what made you assume I was? I enjoy free healthcare, very well protected employment, worker rights and paid vacations.