This is actually an older news story, and it does appear as though she recovered from this before her death.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14389544
the system loves cruelty
criminalizing poverty and brutalizing criminals is what spins the wheels of capitalism
yep, fucking peasants. should know better than to think yourselves the equal of hereditary inherited-but-not-as-formally aristocracy.
And there’s this evergreen graphic about how rich people get rich according to them vs reality: https://imgflip.com/i/6i57ug
No, no, no; if you work really hard and really apply yourself, you too can become a titan of industry and make your billions of dollars. If you aren’t at least a millionaire, it’s because you are just too dumb and lazy to succeed. Go back to school, work longer hours, read more books, get better ideas. In the meantime, I’m hungry, flip my burger faster, and what do you mean you want more than $7.25/hour, it’s not like this is a real job.
The biggest /s imaginable.
Look the law is the law and police have to enforce the law. Except for their friends and family or city officials. Or if they just don’t feel like enforcing the law. But other than that the law is the law!
I mean, that is capitalism. It’s good, no? No?
I would say it is not just capitalism as it happens in other non capitalist societies too. It is corrupt governments/economic systems that who favour big money over protecting and fostering a healthy society. To their own detriment eventually.
you just described capitalism though.
literally, at its core, the idea that ownership is what provides value-not labor or the soil or whatever.
literally veneration of big money over everything else.
That is where I think a lot of people get it wrong…I am describing centralization and it takes many forms across many political and economic systems.
Even if ownership was shared equally, people would be forcibly removed from places that other people don’t think they belong. Humans have needs that must be satisfied, and corruption so far has existed wherever satisfaction can be gained. Somebody will always try to con others for more than their fair share. It’s not a problem of overcomplicating things, it’s an issue of not having adequate systems to handle the unique situations of the disadvantaged and needy.
I don’t really believe we’ve attempted non-capitalist societies at large scales, such as a pure democracy communism/socialism, but I will say that China claims to but they still have hundreds of millions of homeless, so yeah definitely a problem that exists everywhere.
Cruelty is the point. Keep people subservient, keep them worried for their own life and the lives of their loved ones.
You’re less likely to complain about work requiring 20 hours of unpaid overtime if that means you can’t put food on the table for your family.
But which people directly involved in any of these things went to the convention or training seminars about cruelty maximization.
Painting it like that makes it seem deliberate but that’s not what the real problem is, it’s a broken systems that needs to be carefully unpacked and constructed in a way that works - as much as we want to imagine heroics unfortunayely just going in and beating up badguy goons like we’re batman isn’t going to help
Greed and cruelty are inherent traits in some people, no seminar necessary.
Painting it like that makes it seem deliberate but that’s not what the real problem is
Yes it is. The system isn’t broken, it functions perfectly to benefit those greedy cruel people.
I hate life