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The only racist here is you bud. The reality is... you have no problem creating a two-tiered system that promotes worker exploitation and creates racial underclasses, it feeds your superiority complex. Nothing I said relies on the anecdotal nature of my comment to be 'proof'. All I'm doing the laying out the logic to see what's right in front of your eyes.

Also, unfortunately I agree with you, nothing I've said will matter to 95% of people. I actually wish what I said would appeal to people with half a brain, but it won't.

Anyways, you can go back to sticking your head in the sand. Enjoy ✌️

I believe you have the illusion of those things, nothing more.

You'd be wrong.

I encourage you to read about the “dual state” theory which is absolutely spot on in my opinion.

I read it. The problem I see with your theory is that we do in actuality have a complacent working/lower/middle class.

I'm not denying we live basically in a two tiered system. I just think it's largely due to the complacency of people. I think regardless of the label of economic policy we put on a country, if people aren't willing to step up and defend their rights to prosperity, to fight corruption, ultimately it doesn't matter. Any system can be gamified, and manipulated, and corrupted.

If I were a capitalist as you're suggesting, I'd be operating on the assumption that 'the market will fix this' or that property ownership trumps all. I don't believe that to be the case.

I personally believe that we're teetering and already falling past the edge of social prosperity. I think we're seeing the transition into Neo-feudalism. I think colonialism and industrialization created a ungovernable expansion of wealth, and that's the only real reason we have the rights and freedoms we do. I think the Nazi's, the holocaust, and the world wars made fascism/authoritarianism unpopular for a brief period of time, and that time is quickly coming to an end. I'm hopeful that AI might give some reprieve, but it could also make things worse than ever.

Here's the problem I see with your perspective. We do have regulatory processes, we do have access to democratic processes, we do have freedom of expression, we do have civil rights. People instead choose to invest themselves in bipartisanship. I don't see how your argument holds up. Our country has things like gerrymandering that corrupt the process, but on a basic level... people don't care.

Alright. So you said you're poor as fuck in your previous comment. So are you telling me there's just abundant jobs in your area but zero ability for social mobility on your part?

There's proof of what I'm saying everywhere, but if you're conditioned not to see it no amount of proof is going to matter.

For me the one major pivotal point was seeing how much new housing we're building vs the immigration numbers. Another was when I was working in a job with no future, I was at a customer's business, and it's a place I had applied to previously, and the manager was complaining to someone about needing to renew a workers visa. People frequently make the argument that immigrants take jobs that no one else wants. Having lived in poverty for years working with other people in my situation, I know that's not the case. I know there's ton of people killing themselves looking for upwards mobility.

Another situation that's more recent. 10 years ago I moved to find work because my local economy was dead. This year I moved back. I looked for work all over within a 5 hour radius of my home city. #1, I wouldn't get call backs for jobs I had years of experience in.^1^ #2, There's no housing! There's no affordable rental units! - All that said, do you know what else I saw this year? A new immigration program to bring people to my area. - I literally had to move across the fucking country to get ahead in life, to find work, and I'm watching in real time as my city that's been in a perpetual recession for 15 years gets flooded with new labor.

Are greed businesses to blame? Absolutely! But one of the major mechanisms they use to keep wages low is flooding the market with cheap labor. It's a simple matter of leverage.

^1^just to be clear, my KPIs are in the top 95%, my employee reviews are through the roof, I've had my old employers pretty much beg me to come back to work.

Not really, you're mad at capitalism, I personally hold no rage to 'immigrants'. I hold rage towards the lazy ignorant selfish citizens in our world that sit by as we get sold out. I feel rage towards people that don't care as the free-world dies.

Where I live we have democracy. We have the ability to invoke change. We have the ability to stand up and defend the rights, and the futures of others. We have the ability to progress as a society. I think blaming Capitalism is absurd. If people can't come together to agree on positive change, it's not about 'the system' it's fundamentally about the people in the system.

It's impossible to have that conversation. The left will fight against it to protect the immigrant, and the right will fight against it to protect the business, the result is that it's politically incorrect to talk about on both sides.

Not true. Workers that are good at what they do can increase demand for the company/product/service which creates jobs.

Just like a bad worker can kill hurt a companies reputation and hurt it's business, a good worker can bring in business, and grow the reputation.

You don't think flooding the labor force reduces the value of labor? If it was harder for business owners to just replace you, don't you think that would increase your ability to barter for better conditions, and wage?

On-top of that, do you not agree that flooding the population of an area can create greater demand on it's resources, like housing and food, which allows businesses to charge higher?

Immigration in my area is heavily used for wage suppression.

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