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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8286702
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Capitalism is a form of feudalism. A few people own everything and the rest have to work for them or starve. Get caught trying to live off the land that some wealthy prick says he owns, even though he may have never seen it, and you get punished, maybe killed.
Rich people. The answer for how things went wrong is always rich people.
The problem is greed, and it’s very deeply ingrained in human nature, even if a lot of humans don’t have it or control it.
Even collectively as an species we are too greedy.
The good news is there are simple solutions for when people take too much from the commons.
Too bad “civilized society” dictates we can’t execute greedy rich people but have to let them rape our society and economy killing hundreds of millions of poor people.
And who support rich people? Where do you spend your money?
My problems are because the rich. *
Yet you give them literally all your money and time. And will keep doing it *
You are not talking about improving society, you are just blaming.
Yet you give them literally all your money and time
And how do you know that the person you’re responding to doesn’t shop locally or work for a locally owned business? Some people practice their politics instead of just spouting nonsense
I don’t know that’s why I asked first but they responded with a meme instead.
But I was talking more in general and not about him or her specifically, I’m starting to get tired about the “billionaires this and billionaires that” while posting it in an iPhone 19 and browsing amazon next for the next rubbish to buy, many people do this.
I just wish we could talk about how we really got in this mess collectively instead of blaming because no one is free of blame (not even myself obviously), we can only fix our mistakes if we start by accepting them.
But I was talking more in general
You could have made that more clear. You came off quite pointed.
Him or her
Them is way easier to type and it’s more formal.
I’m starting to get tired about the…
Lost me. People are doing what they must to stimulate their social needs. Let me say that again social needs. It’s not an option for humans, we get depression and shit. We have to buy in to the bullshit at least a little bit because that’s the system we live in, the best we can do is change it from within or start a revolution. If you’re not starting the revolution, the best thing you can do is bitch about shitty circumstances until someone with the vindication does start the revolution
First of all thanks for the correction, English is not my first language, I appreciate it.
So… Yesterday in my country in a local forum someone asked regarding the tariffs, what should we do? Are we going to boycott the US? The general consensus more or less was that yes, that’s what we should do. Then the excuses arrived, but I’m not going to give up Amazon, nor Google, nor Meta, how am I going to give up this or that? Then other person gave them good alternatives and he was totally ignored. I didn’t feel that this was a social need, more like convenience, laziness and apathy. I mean, yeah I can kind of agree with you, there are some things I can’t give up exactly because a social need, if I give up one service I get isolated, and yeah when I get depressed I eat sweets when I shouldn’t… But what about the rest?
Anyway I am no one to tell you how you should live, nor I do have the absolute truth whatever that is, all I am saying is that if we buy into the bullshit (not a little, I wish it was just a little) then bullshit is what we have, and yeah we can bitch all you want about the bullshit we are in, we change or nothing will change. What did you mean when you said “change from within”? Isn’t exactly what I am talking about?
And to be honest I didn’t understand what you meant by this social need. Do we really need to buy all the services the rich offer us as a bait to be happy and content? I am aware that we have some needs to function in society, I’m using them all the time, but I couldn’t use it as an excuse to the extreme bullshit we are in, my colleagues in my last job complained all the time about the stress and long hours in the job and then they spent all their money in “stuff”. Is this the social need? They could work in a low stress job for less money if they didn’t spend so much money in Amazon for things that nobody really needs. But instead they were working harder to get more money to get more stuff to buy, it was madness from my point of view not a social need.
Granted humanity had to work pretty hard to get the planet to grow enough food. A lot of selective breeding went into making the food we eat today what it is, and in order to achieve that you had to invent agriculture and everything that came with it.
I don’t agree with anarcho-primitivists, but there’s a huge gap between “mmm, those spikes are growing exactly where I threw the husks of the same spikes I foraged” and having to finance a Domino’s pizza.
Is “spikes” a euphemism for durian?
It’s weird reading the responses talking about how much work it took to get humans fed. Folks, every other “lesser” creature on this planet has done it while finding balance. Humans are the outlier. We truly seem more like a sickness that’s infected an otherwise health host than an “intelligent” ape.
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but those other creatures achieve balance with nature through continuous cycles of mass die offs or constant predation. I definitely agree that measures should be taken to make humans less of a burden on our ecosystem, but following examples of our local animal friends is not an attractive option.
We sure are good at killing both huge numbers of humans and animals causing many of the mass die -offs you’re referencing…
It might not be an attractive offer to you, but I don’t want to be here for 75 years as I decline both physically and mentally so some rich asshole can continue to pillage what’s left of who I am for a few more pennies.
Ok. Godspeed 🫡
You think food just grows on trees?
Clue: the planet grows it but doesn’t gather it for you, or drive it to your house and hand it to you.
Also it doesn’t grow food so easily. Many plants we eat have been cultivated from smaller, bitter, harder versions. Thorns and marsh have been cleared. Processing tools invented and made. Trade between different areas that grow different things at different times. Cultivation of billionaires to ruin everything for everyone.
Well, that’s not the problem.
The problem is that the children do not inherit the Earth, the wealthiest old people demand that our access to land is earned. If we go out and live off it, we are punished.
How do you think the hunter-gatherers got their food? They didn’t drive around delivering berries to each other while worrying about credit scores.
Credit scores are only not a positive thing for people who don’t pay their debts. It’s 100% upside for people who do, and in the US at least, it’s trivially easy to have a top-tier credit score without paying a cent of interest, provided you actually do pay back what you borrow.
Why do you think some people don’t pay their debts?
Love how that is being said on a phone which took international trade and industry to complain with.
