The happiest countries in the world are capitalist, they just have socialized capitalism. This idea that full socialism or communism will = happiness, when neither of these systems has EVER worked IRL and they only lead to authoritarianism, is ridiculous. Horseshoe Theory.
100% if we were capitalist we would be trated slightly better still like shit because we are poor but slightly better then the wage slaves. A companies profit should never be above 10% over manufacturing cost.
Anything over that should automatically be despered among the worker starting with those on the very bottom because we all know they are the ones who tend to work the hardest.
Seriously can we start putting regulations on these companies and if the decide after we do it, that they want to move their manufacturing out of the US. Then we make it so they cant sell in the US. We dont need incentives to bring manufacturing back to the us we punishment.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
Capitalism allows for none of this if you aren't wealthy.
Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”
Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump gestures while speaking and sitting in the Oval Office🖕
Been advocating for a national health system for decades. I think AOC and the like are the future of the Dem party. I ran to be a Bernie delegate in 2016 and was a Warren Dem in 2020 (of course I voted for HRC and Biden when my preferred candidates didn’t win.)
I didn't go on twitter until 2019 , so I was under the impression that you were a corporate Dem. It's still a welcome transformation. I salute your courage in posting anti-capitalist stuff. You are going to take a lot of heat from corporate dems calling you a Communist. #Respect #winning
Sure, but maybe being an "exploited worker" in the US is as good as it gets for most? Millions vote with their feet and die to become exploited workers in the US. What is the alternative?
Correct. The fellow down the road baking and selling bread is NOT a capitalist. The person charging him 7% interest on a loan so he could buy his oven, is the capitalist. Gaining ersatz wealth by "virtue" of having ersatz wealth.
If you work to live/survive, you’re not a capitalist, you’re working class.
Those who have so much money their money makes money for them and they never have to work to live/survive? Those are the folks who’ve bought our govt and use their money to exploit us, steal from us, and screw us over
But maybe, just maybe, someday, I'll be a billionaire. And when that happens I don't want to pay taxes. So I'm going to vote against my own best interests JUST IN CASE I BECOME A BILLIONAIRE.
Dude world has changed. There was a technological revolution. Few of them actually.
Ukrainian hemophiliac children have better healthcare under russian missile waves than son of russian tzar had. Ukrainian kids in cancer hospital are better than George W Bush sister who died of leukemia aged 3.
I'd heard a podcast about the dubious origins of "Stockholm Syndrome"--a term made up on the spot, without any diagnostic criteria or proof, to discredit a female hostage--and the story was fascinating. This article has the basic gist. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/is-stockholm-syndrome-a-myth/102738084
" When you download an app and enter your email address, phone number, and physical location, you are effectively gift-wrapping your personal information and handing it over to corporate megalords for exploitation"
You can approve of capitalism without benefitting from it. It's an efficient method of distributing goods and services, even if there is a cruel side to it. Masochism is a valid form of pleasure, prude.
I still think Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair & LBJ said it best why poor whites are aspirational voters who often vote against their own self-interests: bigotry, and lacking sufficient self-awareness to realize they’re the losers in life.
Or maybe their poverty has forced them to dig deep down inside and they've realized that sometimes voting against oneself in the interest of the greater good, they're able to see the significance of the part/role they play in the big picture.
As a kid raised in a religious cult, I know a thing or two about members of cults think: through liberal application of “thought stoppers” and other cognitive dissonance suppression techniques, including willingly believing their leader over their own lying eyes.
Please tell me you’re just a MAGAT troll playing dumb, as how does DT & richest man in World cutting Social Security, Medicaid, laying off vets from VA, etc all in an attempt to justify extending elite tax cuts set to expire this year constitute anything other than a big con job?
You must have misunderstood what I was talking about. I said NOTHING about voting against one's own interest related to any particular issue at all. I was simply pondering the state of mind that a person in poverty might have when looking out at the world & making various life decisions. Chill.
Racism and bigotry. Their only sense of self worth comes from the mistaken belief that they are part of a superior race.They would rather identify with the white billionaires and politicians than coloured folks like them. In doing that they suffer but years of racist propaganda is hard to shake off
And they are so entirely tone deaf that they show their stuff right to their employees who also have to hear about their blowout vacations and pretend to be so happy for them.
No i won’t! I wont democracy, reasonable restrictions and regulations, and a fair pay. And I hope that ppl will stop believing they need all that plastic shit that polutes our environment.
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I found the picture funny. I’m not a communist. Had family in the old DDR, my glasses are not rose coloured. I Think all -isms have pros and cons, but corruption, greed and power hungry people always seems to ruin it for the majority. But want fair working conditions for all.
Why do so many think we need to praise millionaires?
Why do so many want to worship these people?
Seriously, why do so many actually think trickle down economics is real. How’s that happen?
Nah I'm a capitalist, because I actually know what capitalism is, rather than how it is simply used by ignorant laypeople who know as little about capitalism as the average MAGA knows about socialism.
Nice to see this from you.There have been a lot of closeted progressives among the Dem establishment. Hopefully more will look around and see that we have the timid hearts and minds of the public now who just need encouragement to Stan up.
Before decades, the US ship manufacturing to China chasing cheap labour and now they are upset that China said OK. I just successful now. The US wants it back. You know where this goes and what you have to go through to get it back. Cheap labour in the US.
So much this! When I say "I'm not a capitalist," people look at me like I have two heads. Not only is it a toxic economic system with an inherent economic caste system, it's produces a toxic culture where paid work (no matter how unnecessary or harmful) is elevated over meaningful human pursuits
That is an excellent point - ☝️ I wonder how that attitude towards paid work/meaningful human pursuits, so prevalent in the US to over-value the former, compared to other areas/cultures/subcultures? Then I'd like to know how those individuals would rate their life satisfaction/contentment/passion?
Scandinavian countries are consistently ranked the happiest. They have shorter work weeks, more vacation, a much larger social safety nets & FAR, FAR less income inequality. Their economies are capitalist-socialist hybrids, akin to democratic socialism. I don't think that's a coincidence!
Un-funny fact: the minimum wage has not increased for
almost 16 years! Meanwhile, housing and everything else has skyrocketed. American workers is being heartlessly exploited, and on top of that they will now be facing much higher prices that will quite conceivably force many out onto the streets.
We need to get with the program. Nothing is cheap, and you don’t need all that stuff. We need housing, affordable nontoxic food, safety and transportation.
I think a lot of people would see this and think: ah, Communists are trying to turn me. Capitalism isn't evil by itself unless it's unregulated. "Well-regulated" is important for the 2nd amendment and for capitalism in general.
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*Attend your district office and DEMAND answers from your representative!✊️
* #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMETA #TeslaTakeDown
* March for democracy or you might be next! National day of action April 19
#50501movement #HandsOff
😂. That’s true for 🇺🇸, half true in 🇨🇦. Both need to remember that the unions raised wages & created the middle class. When the wealth was held by 80% of the population that’s when we were truly “great”. Unions are weak in 🇨🇦 & dead in 🇺🇸. 1% of the population in america holds 90% of the wealth now 🤑
The American government is not set up to be a capitalist institution. But, try telling that to Trump! He thinks the gov should be a for-profit entity & as CEO, he can distribute that revenue as he sees fit. Largely, to himself. Like, trillions. 🤑
And, no board of directors. In the real corporate world, the CEO serves at the pleasure of the board and can be fired with or without cause.
We need Congressional Oversight.
Stockholm Syndrome is real. It’s no joke.
Look at naturally normal people whom tweeted, and then thought the bought and changed name to ‘X’ was normal!
I’m not going to Mars!
I can barely live on this planet as it is!
It’s NORMAL for non-billionaires to want to heal Earth, not escape it.
I’m weird.
When scripture says that there was “war in heaven,” that it had something to do with the “”scar” on Mars, and the destruction of that planet to make us escape to Earth (Terra), to also mess it up too.
I’m doubtful that this is a crystalline formation found by one of our Martian probes:
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In capitalism you can choose how you want to be exploited, but you’re still going to get exploited.
Workers, unite!
But you do you.
Is not human trafficking and kidnapping a war crime?
Is Trump guilty of war crimes already, by the war he himself declared?
BUT there is a profitable business model that is owned by workers with democratic control: the #WorkerCooperative.
https://www.wcl.american.edu/academics/experientialedu/clinical/theclinics/elc/tlcc/for-businesses-nonprofits/upload/coop-info-sheet.pdf
The lives of Americans are not much diff than their parents, except they take vacations, charge them, and make the credit card banks richer.
Only the rich make a good living in America, the rest remain distracted and preoccupied with “things.”
Capitalism allows for none of this if you aren't wealthy.
Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump gestures while speaking and sitting in the Oval Office🖕
Those who have so much money their money makes money for them and they never have to work to live/survive? Those are the folks who’ve bought our govt and use their money to exploit us, steal from us, and screw us over
They didn't think Orange King actually drank his own Kool-Aide
Ukrainian hemophiliac children have better healthcare under russian missile waves than son of russian tzar had. Ukrainian kids in cancer hospital are better than George W Bush sister who died of leukemia aged 3.
#DumpTrump
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelgilmore.bsky.social/post/3lmdz7jyo4s2c
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/monster-of-2024-the-relentless-pressure-to-download-more-apps/
Please tell me you’re just a MAGAT troll playing dumb, as how does DT & richest man in World cutting Social Security, Medicaid, laying off vets from VA, etc all in an attempt to justify extending elite tax cuts set to expire this year constitute anything other than a big con job?
Rupert watched Network, but didn’t see it as a dystopian warning, but as a blueprint to build a right-wing media TV empire.
Western societies are mixed economies. The political basis is liberalism, ie. the rule of law, not men.
There has never been a democracy in modern times, that didn't allow 'capitalism'.
And every communist regime country employs a sizable percentage of the population as slaves in labor camps.
You really need to travel and visit some communist and formerly communist countries.
Why do so many want to worship these people?
Seriously, why do so many actually think trickle down economics is real. How’s that happen?
I was exploited right into a lifelong disability and NO INSURNACE covered it!
They had insurance it is NOT COVERED; they can destroy your body and toss you to the curb, THESE ARE TRUMPS PALS!
almost 16 years! Meanwhile, housing and everything else has skyrocketed. American workers is being heartlessly exploited, and on top of that they will now be facing much higher prices that will quite conceivably force many out onto the streets.
*Attend your district office and DEMAND answers from your representative!✊️
* #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMETA #TeslaTakeDown
* March for democracy or you might be next! National day of action April 19
#50501movement #HandsOff
https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3lm6nvbeihc2m
If he is not reined in we are all royally fucked.
We need Congressional Oversight.
Look at naturally normal people whom tweeted, and then thought the bought and changed name to ‘X’ was normal!
I’m not going to Mars!
I can barely live on this planet as it is!
It’s NORMAL for non-billionaires to want to heal Earth, not escape it.
When scripture says that there was “war in heaven,” that it had something to do with the “”scar” on Mars, and the destruction of that planet to make us escape to Earth (Terra), to also mess it up too.
I’m doubtful that this is a crystalline formation found by one of our Martian probes: