🐱TheCat @ WheeGeetheCat @sh.itjust.works

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I feel like this story is essentially propaganda at this point- at least in the USA where the 'risk' for the rich never plays out.

The rich don't actually risk their money. They risk the government's money and other's lives and livelihoods. When they fail, they get bailed. Bailed out by the banks. Or they simply don't pay their bills and lay off all their employees and let everyone else take a bath.

Rather than inflating everything, why don't we tax the shit out of their held wealth? Seems more direct without all the side effects of making FOOD, HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE UNAFFORDABLE

all these takes kinda suck.

The people most affected by inflation aren't the rich at all. Theirs a whole generation inflated out of housing. Some might understand that as modern serfdom.

Because capitalism = cancer. It survives on endless growth. it hates retraction, even if the host survives longer.

So they print money and target inflation. They take actions that MAKE it so things never deflate.

can someone explain that community to me? Ive been there and I dont quite get the title- is it military memes? Is that it? halp im old

The most horrible thing about being in the USA is the lack of holidays. We are always working. They can't have us traveling or having any time to think.

The contrast between capitalist and precapitalist work patterns is most striking in respect to the working year. The medieval calendar was filled with holidays. Official—that is, church—holidays included not only long 'vacations' at Christmas, Easter, and midsummer but also numerous saints' and rest days. They were spent in sober churchgoing and in feasting, drinking, and merrymaking. In addition to official celebrations, there were often weeks' worth of ales-to mark important life events (bride ales or wake ales) as well as less momentous occasions (scot ale, lamb ale, and hock ale). All told, holiday leisure time in medieval England took up probably about one third of the year. And the English were apparently working harder than their neighbors. The ancient regime in France is reported to have guaranteed fifty-two Sundays, ninety rest days, and thirty-eight holidays. In Spain, travelers noted that holidays totaled five months per year.

yet I'm told as a modern American that I should be happy to get 5 weeks of vacation a year.

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and theres this

The degradation which most workers experience on the job is the sum of assorted indignities which can be denominated as ‘discipline.’…Discipline consists of the totality of totalitarian controls at the workplace—surveillance, rotework, imposed work tempos, production quotas, punching-in and out, etc. Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital. It is something historically original and horrible. It was beyond the capacities of such demonic dictators of yore as Nero and Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible. For all their bad intentions they just didn’t have the machinery to control their subjects as thoroughly as modern despots do.

There are authoritarians in every country. I don't get the appeal - you have to think less I guess? less responsibility? - but lots of people seem eager to give up their voice if they think the person getting the power will use it against the people they don't like.

The key is to get them to realize that eventually someone who doesn't like them is going to get the power - maybe? But I think I've also heard that some of these preferences are down to physical brain structure that determines sensitivity to fear and empathy

yup, exactly

warning this whole comment is USA-centric point of view, sorry entire rest of the world

I think you guys are talking about liberals tendency to infantilize. https://lawliberty.org/infantilizing-minority-students/

Both liberals and conservatives are basically servants of capitalism first, and derive their beliefs from rationalizing the state of the world that capitalism has created.

Conservatives believe that capitalism is the 'natural state' - so nothing needs to be done about the unequal outcomes.

Liberals believe that the unequal outcomes are unfair, but rather than attacking the source (capitalism), they try to solve it by 'babying' those they see as victims of the system, which doesn't really help.

edit: I want to note that the source I linked has high right wing bias (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/law-liberty-bias/). I do believe that our opponents sometimes see our weaknesses clearer than ourselves, but still felt like pointing this out because they start blaming stupid shit for the systemic racism in the USA towards the end.

The point is, both parties point at each other and workers as individuals to avoid pointing at capitalism.

Was just in Montana, stronghold of libertarians- someone explained to me that you need a license from game and fish to kayak in a river. Then someone else explained that because Montana has no sales tax - rich people from all over buy their sports car there to save hundreds of thousands.

So the libertarian stronghold is really a bunch of smalltowners cucked by the rich, as usual

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So many good options

Tell me you don't understand soft power without etc....

I kind of agree, but it's also shitty he's involved with the PGA/Saudis now

Projecting again, hes thinking about the white supremacists in the military he knows which threaten to nuke leftists, and assuming left wing people are as shitty as he is - as usual.

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I just toss a couple videos of people laughing there everyday. It's a bit niche but I love it because these videos usually give me a good belly laugh. If you like that type of content feel free to post

OMG TF2 is back? Did someone reboot the universe lately? Federated social media, old memes, TF2. Something is afoot.

Tankies

a lot of industries seem to solve problems well initially, then backtrack and make their product purposefully shitty in order to capture more revenue.

wild how many irrational, terribly adjusted people we have in positions of power then

Can confirm, also made bomb mashed potatoes with a ricer

The real founder of Space X is Tom Mueller

He grew up building model rockets and went on to get a masters degree in mechanical engineering.