Mudface @ Mudface @lemmy.world

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What’s your expectation? You want to be the richest man in the world? Do you want everyone to be equivalent to the richest man in the world?

You’re not making any sense. We all experience hardship.

I’m not American, but what I’m talking about applies to Americans, or anyone in a wealthy western country.

The poverty of western countries isn’t even real poverty. What looks poor to you and I is luxurious to true poverty, or to our ancestors.

Oh! Yes, I also remember 10th grade philosophy class. Was it your first week this week?

Back to school is always fun

Honestly, it sounds like you’re the extreme one if you think the majority of everyone else is either centrist or extremist themselves.

How can you reconcile that?

Unfortunately, I don’t think it exists anywhere

They probably should

I feel this way whenever I’m in public talking about hockey. I know a lot about hockey, but I’m Canadian and a lot of people know a lot about hockey.

So I always just assume there’s someone who will walk by and hear what I’m saying and react like the meme.

Then I remember that whoever would do that is kind of a loser, and should just leave people alone to talk about shit they enjoy

I’m conservative, I’m not American though.

I wish there was a place we could talk about the issues we disagree on without assuming the other is PURE EVIL OMG HITLER HITLER NAZI!

Or DIRTY PEDO COMMIE HATES WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND WANTS US TO ALL BE GULAGED LITERALLY STALIN STALIN STALIN!

But like I said, there are politicians in other countries too. This seems to be exclusively an American oddity

This is why the downvote system is such a failure of an idea.

If people were as smart as they think they are, they’d just downvote stuff like this and it would go away. People post this junk because they are whores for upvotes

If it’s negative and it’s about Musk, it gets posted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Hey bro, Twitter sucks!

(I hope that helps too)

I’m Canadian, we don’t have this problem. I don’t think they do in the UK or Europe either.

You guys didn’t either, until just more relatively recently. Feels gross, it feels corrupt

You do understand what an analogy used for the purpose of illustrating a point is, right?

What is it with people and being literal to the point of making a conversation painful?

I could explain all of your questions for you, but it takes a lot of groundwork laying that you should have probably picked up on your own by now, and at least a little bit from the education system.

Is all they teach you in school how great Karl Marx is? Did you learn how businesses operate? Assets, liabilities, profit margins, overhead, OSHA, etc?

C-level executives usually set an operational budget per business department. There is a labour budget included in that. It’s a managers duty to use that budget to fill out the labour needs of the business, based on sales and sales forecasts and any other upcoming business changes.

It’s not really as easy as ‘just hire everyone who walks in the door and don’t enforce any attendance policies, if they want to work they’ll show up. Sure, some days we will have more than we need, and other days we won’t have enough, but if the communities needs more tires, I’m sure they’ll just come in and do the right thing.’

Seriously, have you ever had to depend on someone doing their job before? I’m guessing not.

Anyway, we aren’t really talking about societies need for tires, we are talking about capitalism

Exactly

It went from ‘anything but trump!’ To ‘we don’t like what we had to do to make sure trump lost so make new laws so we don’t do it again’

Why don’t they just vote for younger people? Why does there need to be a law?

You can misunderstand how life works all you want.

Go be miserable somewhere else

Let me just explain something very simple here. The base state of man is suffering.

That’s our default. That’s how living works.

What our system has done is alleviate so much of that base suffering that now, we are so incredibly unused to any real suffering that we just make up things to be ‘hurt’ over.

Capitalism has removed almost all of that base suffering from your life. The ‘horrible conditions’ capitalism ‘creates’ is simply handing you much much too cushy of a life.

I mean, who had time to be offended when you’re too busy trying not to starve to death, hiding in the bushes with a spear, hoping a rabbits gonna run by.

Sure thing, man

I mean no way are you better off than cavemen, hunter getherers, Cubans, Venezuelans, 1940’s Germany or the old USSR.

Medieval England, would you rather live there than here?

Where is this non-capitalist utopia that you’re thinking of when you’re saying this?

We have seen many alternatives to capitalism. They are all much much worse than capitalism.

You act as if humanity just popped into existence and started capitalism 200,000 years ago lmfo