What... Should my reaction be? Lol do you want us to all crowdfund an emergency evacuation of his wife?
Like... This doesn't even make sense. "We are all ok with it" until five seconds ago I didn't even know about this situation but being responsible or able to help is also a factor and neither of those apply to us so why the fuck would we do anything?
Some of you are just the worst when it comes to falling on a sword for anyone and anything.
I have friends that occasionally bitch about the way things are but refuse to engage with whatever systems are set up to help solve whatever given problem they have. "it shouldn't be like that! It should work like X"
Well, it doesn't. We can try to change things for the better but refusal to engage with the current system isn't an excuse for why your life is shit.
Humans consumers will still exist, and at that point we would have no choice but to facilitate some kind of UBI or else there's going to be a few billion people that aren't going to just sit around and die.
I disagree, the fundamental issue with communism is in its design. You either let the government control your economy, in which case authoritarianism will leech those who toe the party line to the top and corrupt. Or, you design another system/group to handle economic concerns. In which case, they will simply turn into a government in all but name.
There's a reason the state owned businesses of the fascist Nazis and the collectivist "public ownership" of the Soviet Union looked the same in practice, when in the realm of theory they couldn't be more separate. Those in power (whoever they may be) when allowed to put people in positions of authority who they desire, will just put their favorite yes men there. Whether that's a required backing of the nazi party/a bullet to the brain, or just being next in line because Lenin had your superior killed for failing to meet expectations. Authoritarianism is the rule of the day and they all exercise it equally.
The economy is best left to the needs of a market that has the appropriate organization and division of labor, land, and capital. It only self-destructs due to the misguided notion that wages are derived from capital instead of labor, and the justification of the capitalist at how much of the slice they deserve based on that misdirection.
Perfect, trade out one system where the 1% takes 80% of the production into another system where historically a ruling elite of military/government cronies took the top 80% of the production.
Same problem different aristocracy.
Go read Progress and Poverty, capitalism isn't the issue. Capitalists pulling the wool over everyone's eyes by making themselves the most important part of the puzzle, is. Giving themselves most of the credit for production and thereby most of the profits from said production.
Well both of my parents are Christian nationalists and I'm a moderate-left (for lemmy at least) agnostic-atheist. So it's not like they are 100% successful at indoctrinating their own kids and they don't really recruit any other way. Especially when it comes to religion, selling your kids on it is 99% of the survival/growth rate. As much as they like to pretend, it's almost impossible for them to convert adults who weren't raised in the religion.
So basically you'll have the red states continually reduce the rights of the people socially-speaking while the economy enslaves them due to lax restrictions on capitalists. Once the places get shittier the people that see the reasons why will leave and the places will just get worse and worse until they're reduced to an uneducated mass that only has modern technology when they can buy it. Companies will have a harder time staffing advanced industries due to the educated workforce not wanting to live in a christo-fascist state.
The point is that the company employing gig economy workers expects us to pay their wages and for our food.