The yellow vs green circle is what I’ve chosen to sell my time for. It’s a choice.
The taxes portion is also a choice, but I only get to choose whether and how much to fund schools and hospitals and accessible healthcare on a 5 year ticket.
I’m only glad that the bundle i pick that goes status-quo on healthcare and schools is also the one that doesn’t hate brown people or women AND has a chance of getting to run the show.
Sorry, I forgot what we were talking about. How does anarchy fund accessible healthcare again?
Honest question: say it gets divided, who will decide on the right margin the company run with?
That’s oligarchy. Those who own things have power while those who do not have none. Democracy is where every person has equal power. I’d like a system where every employee gets a vote, no matter their status, from the forklift driver to the president of the board of directors. Employees have an incentive for their company to work well long-term because it is their livelyhood.
Because basically nobody you know can even do their own taxes or read above an 8th grade level? Fucking nobody you ask has an answer to a best estimate of their “total economic value”. Anyone who CAN give that estimate is outside the target audience of this post.
Should people be paid more? For sure yes. Do you think the target audience of this post can even accurately tell you the value of both gross income and AGI? Lol no.
It’s so weird that Americans cling to feudal landlord mentality like a lifeline, and also call it “freedom”.
And by landlord mentality I’m not just talking about conservative thinking. It also drives the idea that it’s perfectly fine to learn skills by watching what other people do and then basing new work on it - but when software does that, it’s “stealing”. Righteous outrage! Not fair! That’s mine! Just another form of landlordism, but it’s the good kind! (as usual)
People always cry “communism bad” when anyone suggests anything having to do with any type of reform. Communism is shit and all but there’s only one thing worse than communism: feudalism. You have to be subservient on someone more successful than you because all the prices and job wages are fixed in order to force this on as many people as possible. This can be in the form of joining the armed forces just for the guaranteed housing and healthcare, continuing to go to college and racking up endless debt just because it allows you to survive for a little longer, or living on your maga cousin’s farm so you can do farm work in exchange for being allowed to live there for a price you can afford. It’s literal feudalism.
Fuck all the idiots that have been brainwashed into fighting to “conserve” how awful and broken everything is. I have skills. I have a college education. I haven’t ever been employed in anything besides fast food or retail. Corporations are too busy running the entire economy into the ground because it makes the stock go up to care about saving the economy or human rights.
If I could start over I would’ve spent all the money I spent on college instead buying a plot of land to legally be “homeless” on and maybe bought an rv. Unlike owning a home or living in apartment, it may be possible to keep costs of living low enough this way to be sustainable. Seems to be the last method of living they haven’t colluded and price fixed to the point where no matter what, the costs of living are higher than jobs that are possible to actually get and keep, for now at least. Just wait until the “right” of land ownership is tied to proof of religion, neurotypical status or a thc drug test, I’m sure no one will even bother to fight back.
but there’s only one thing worse than communism: feudalism.
I grew up in the DDR, that’s what it was like.
The party decided what and how you live your life, how much equality you deserve. You had to scratch their backs to get their scraps. The only way to improve your living conditions was to be completely subservient, in private and public life.
