Just one more way capitalism destroys the fabric of compassion and community in our world.
Just one more way it depersonalizes everyone and commodifies everything.
Such evil.
The suffering and cruelty is the point.
Without indignity we wouldn't be able to elevate the owning class above the rest.
Agreed. How do we organize the economy to reflect this. 2024 our gdp was close to $30 trillion. In 2025 there was around 165 million workers and let's say a population of 350 million people. Each worker produces on average $181k of productivity. Each citizen has about $85k worth of productivity each year attributed to them. Even in today's American every citizen can afford some luxuries if productivity was more equitably shared across the country. How can we enforce this more
Limit C-suite wages to their bottom line workers including the sub contracted janitors.
All boards must have labor interests in the company represented.
Higher tax on money so it can go into subsidies for the disabled and poor.
Cancel restrictions on savings/resources money for disabled people. Have a more progressive subsidy system for the poor.
Destroy redundancy in the economy. Health care insurance, pharmaceutical companies, military spending, and education. We spend money as a society on these endeavors they should be owned and controlled by the people. We shouldn't be paying for the profit of military contractors, pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and education. There should be budgets and it costs what it costs. Our military should also be brought back to America if we want to keep the jobs program we can defend ourselves from our own soil and excess military people can do public service work like bridges and roads. If the government spends money it should go to employing people directly not private corporate hands
Essential infrastructure including transport, housing and groceries should be handled by the community, either by workers coop or by municipality.
Agreed on that but I do think at least with the tax infrastructure/enforcement nowadays the money has to come from the fed budget as the economy is national/global.
This was something I was thinking should be memified / rendered into an infographic.
Meritocracies tend to have blind-spots regarding certain folks:
Probably not a complete list. Early draft.
Nobody should suffer due to their ability. At the same time lacking luxuries like coffee, nice dinners, and fun trips is not suffering. I agree, everyone deserves some luxury in their life but to equate lack of luxury to suffering tells me you are totally out of touch.
Disabled person here. Thank you for letting us know that watching other people find joy in things like coffee, eating out, and going on vacations while we sit at home in pain and depression isn't a form of suffering.
They're also implying that employed, not disabled people somehow magically get those luxuries just for participating in capitalism
True. Plenty of able-bodied hard working people are going without while others lounge about spending their trust fund checks. System is broken. System is also working as designed. :(
That is an incredibly ignorant and arrogant position to take.
People need more than just 4 walls and a meal. They need enrichment. They need laughter, They Need Joy, and new experiences.
and I have a sneaking suspicion that you'd suddenly stop thinking its out of touch ,and start demanding it as a necessity for your pursuit of happiness, when you're the one down and out, having smarmy cunts make denigrating comments every time you did some small personal act of self-care.
I'm reminded of an incident in the aughts or early 2010s in which an intra-office correspondence from a right-wing think tank escaped into the public. One of the correspondents expressed distaste over disabled and welfare recipients having access to refrigerators.
As the history of Great Britain has shown us, it will always be tempting to trim the privileges of the poor and disabled, to punish them for their shortfalls in exploiting the capitalist system. In the meantime, the hardest workers, such as USMC front line riflemen and wait staff in diners scattered across the states, the hardest, cruelest work does not make one rich. As a note, the most costly crime in the United States is wage theft, and time theft is a myth dispelled by the ubiquity of bullshit jobs. We're being robbed by our own bosses who always want more of what they already have in excess of what they can use.
Really, we should intervene with billionaires the way we do drunkards and addicts.
And yet we also praise and worship private equity investors, who do nothing short of create sinkholes in our economy, but only after stripping companies down to their skeletons and leaving them with immense debt to go bankrupt. Mitch Romney managed such a firm before his political career, and he was the Republican candidate for President of the United States before the GOP was repurposed as Trump's instant army.
The merit or lack thereof that a given person shows doesn't come out of a vacuum. We shouldn't be relying on fate and kind bosses (or bad parenting and bad bosses and being the wrong color and the wrong religion etc.) to decide who gets to enjoy what luxury, yet some riflemen escape combat to end up disproportionately homeless, while grifters and financial hacks rent municipal areas for their wedding.
Ideally, we'd all eat the same, and be motivated to make sure the most squalid and most vile of eaters still dine with extravagance, knowing the least of us dines as well as we do, since it's not anyone's fault they were born ~~frail, or with avolition, or with blindness or with a foul temperament they cannot overcome~~ without the capital, the financial acumen and the sheer ruthlessness to make it in the late-stage capital world.
But I'd settle for a narrow wealth bandwidth, where the poorest of us has a thousandth, maybe of the richest of us.
We don't even get that. So fuck capitalism, and death to monarchists.
So disabled people should just eat gruel and have the minimum sufficient to survive?
Like, you need to think through what you're saying here
When you take a plane to your fun trip, you're polluting the planet for everybody else - so either we all have the right to have a fun trip, or nobody does.
I work with special needs kids. They aren't unable to contribute, only no one has accommodated the ways they are able too.
“I suffered therefore you must suffer too even if it doesn’t have to be that way”
The cry of the selfish and mean everywhere. Doesn’t matter if it’s student loans, pay, lousy schedule, whatever. If someone had it tough they’ll want you to have it shitty too. Republicans in particular love this one, right along with “there is no solution we consider perfect therefore there is no good enough solution at all.”
The rich have ingrained in the lower classes a weird sense of superiority over anyone that they deem lowest.
Which is why they fight so hard against making civilization better. Because they must feel superior to those beneath them, and all actions done to improve society result in elevating people up to a higher position.
Its also why minorities, immigrants, and disabled are always the targets.. Cause they are the easiest to other and catagorize as "lowest" to feel above.
"He's rich, do he must be smart."
That one passes me off the most, especially in regards to President Tiny Dick.
“I suffered therefore you must suffer too even if it doesn’t have to be that way”
I see this sentiment a lot whenever the subject of increasing the minimum wage comes up. A lot of people think it's unfair that a teenager should be making ~~$15~~ $20 an hour when they only made ~~$5~~ $8 when they were a teen. And they are currently only making around $20 an hour themselves. I have literally seen this exact statement on discussions of increasing the minimum wage:
"No teenager should be making close to the same amount that I am. They don't need that kind of money."
You are 100% correct that it's selfishness and I would add that it's also a complete lack of empathy as well.
Isn't "buying things" in general, a contribution to capitalism?
Just because you're unable to contribute to capitalism doesn't mean you should suffer.
Depends on who you ask. But i agree.
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