their con man idols tell them that the reason their lives are shitty is because of the mexicans, gays, black people, women, librarians, immigrants....everyone except the people who are literally paying them nothing and laughing at them for it.
and the people are all too happy to believe it
I think a lot about something i read somewhere - "you hate every piece of capitalism but won't connect the dots to see that's the picture".
I have this conversation with people all the time.
People will point out that it makes more sense to punch up than to punch down but the later is significantly easier and better paid.
These is why the alt right pipeline for women is transphobia/TERF shit.
Sexism is real, lots of teenage girls and young women feel frustrated and powerless, but they get easy wins going after trans women. They can’t get Dobbs reversed, but forcing trans people to detransition is an explicit goal of conservative power structures. They get to feel like they “won” with that UK court ruling - that “women’s rights” were won by something that did nothing to actually meaningfully help women.
It's this, and it's also more than this: there has to be a limitation put on profit, a place at which the corporation achieves balance and success- enough to not feel the need to continually chip away at wages and working conditions or increasing enshittification in search of immediate short-term profits.
If enough profit is never enough, it will forever remain a constant battle between corporations and workers, and corporations and the public.
This is even my problem with the system when it comes to "the little guy." Say you make a coffee shop, or release art, or a videogame, or an invention... There's always this looming pressure to scale . No matter how much of a home run, that success is almost designed to "dry up."
Wow, one in a million success! You can chill now right? No, it's gotta be bigger, better, repeated, infinitely! Franchises, chains, out of place sequels nobody asked for! Overly enthusiastic merch destined for the Pacific Garbage Patch!
It feels like the system forces greed upon people as the state religion because they are not naturally greedy themselves if they're otherwise taken care of. Savvy business of the modern age has the mentality of cancer.
Even the wealthy need to be imbued with the pathological fear that all they have might get taken from them, so they must amass more and more. It doesn't even end with their own lives! They must aim for generational private wealth now.
It's feels like it's such an outlier mentality to want to find "just enough success to support my people and do some good."
And you're right about the adversarial relationship between employers and workers. "Honest work" is almost an oxymoron anymore, because it doesn't matter how nice a person sits in the manager's chair. Their win condition to provide for themselves is to screw you as much as possible and get away with it.
I'm chill with safety nets for poor people and regulations on large companies
what I consider far left is when people start saying that the govt should own everything and there shouldn't be private property. that's an extreme and I am against that.
edit: all of you downvoters are actually far left commies and I'm completely correct
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