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A Boring Dystopia
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It gets better. Capitalism is designed to make sure you work for the rest of your life. Like a cow or sheep. While any rich person doesnt need to work or do shit. The aristocrats were all in on capitalism when it first gained traction. I wonder why?
The American dream narrative makes people falsely believe that they too can eventually become an aristocrat such that, against their own interests, they fail to stand in solidarity to hold them accountable.
All it takes is to look at the graphic of historic social mobility in the US to know that the American Dream is dead, buried, then was exhumed, incinerated and the billionaires pissed on its ashes.
Step one, don't let people think. What are the chances of me becoming dont-need-to-work-a-day-more-in-my-entire-life rich, given zero relatives at that level of wealth and any country of residence? Practically zero, unless I am something exceptional
I have no idea how it happens that so many fail to see even that
I don’t believe the people are willing to challenge the status quo.
I guess they need more suffering yet.
Given the American dream, there must exist an American sleep paralysis demon.
You seem to be correct
I think when gas prices get rough enough, America will have its come to Jesus moment. We're only seeing the beginning.
No they weren't. The aristocrats were upset that the bourgeoisie were getting uppity and taking their power. Read the communist manifesto, it was written back when capitalism was first overtaking feudalism. People were salty! The French had a revolution!
Yeah and guess who was funding both sides and the start of capitalism? Play both sides is the best strategy.
The same people weren't playing both sides. There were aristocrats who saw the writing on the wall and joined with the proletariat partially so they could keep their heads and partially because they figured they could come out as the new aristocracy if they played along. Plenty of aristocrats made the other choice and got beheaded.
too add on, in america mostly people are expected to "launch" the moment they turn 18 without any financial/job stability, so some dont because of that.
We need stakeholder primacy instead of their bs shareholder primacy.
What was the retirement age in the Soviet Union?
55/60 for women/men but the pension wasn't exactly high. Life expectancy 65 for men, 74 for women. Population was still growing too. Retirement as a concept requires enough young people to serve the needs of the old.
What is your goal with this question?
Oh, dearie me, a pure seeker of knowledge. Sorry, it's just that no one had mentioned the Soviet Union. And people usually bring up things that read like non-sequiturs when they want to establish a connection.
And I didn't downvote. Yet. I usually wait to downvote until a commenter leaves little doubt that they're a dickhead.
Watch those downvote numbers. Because they're all about to increase by at least one now.
Being able to tag other users is a really useful feature.
Nah fuck that you prove to me humanity can do an economy properly than we have a conversation. At this point we will all die before we ever have a proper economy. The greed of the few out weigh the needs of the many.
A proper economy is one where the people who need things more pay more than the people who need them less. That’s how we know what things should cost.
Yeah like communism on paper why dont you apply that?
Lol. You refer to that country as an example?
Lol again. That a serious question?