I’m 49 and still socialist. Working for a living is the core of communism. Workers are more populous and generate all the value, we would like a larger share of the value we create.
MasterObee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Young people haven’t experienced life yet and think communist is something good, despite 100 years of absolute failures and hundreds of millions of people starving, getting killed for things such as wearing glasses, and sent to work to death in prisons for having a different opinion.
Young people also over represent themselves on the transgender scale and don’t realize they aren’t actually special compared to the 7 billion people in the world, but like to feel special in their high school of 1,000 people.
Young people comprise the vast majority of people on the fediverse.
Young people will get a rude awakening once they find out they have to work for a living, provide to those they love and, once again, that their ‘identity’ doesn’t matter to anyone else.
jerrimu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MasterObee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Working for a living is the core of communism.
totalitarianism is the core of communism.
Workers are more populous and generate all the value
Then negotiate, if you do create the value, then you can sell your services for more.
we would like a larger share of the value we create.
See above.
snailwizard@kbin.social 1 year ago
Some people have experiences which have left them embittered towards a younger, more hopeful generation. Despite 100's of years of exploitation, absolute failure, and hundreds of millions of people starving to death, getting killed for things such as not wanting to work weekends, and sent to work to death for having the absolute cajones to do what they need to do to provide for their loved ones, they STILL insist that capitalism is the only way forward because it's the only thing they've ever known.
The average human may not stand out amid 8 billion other people, but each and every person is unique and therefore special in their own way.
Everyone wants to work, to do something, but no one wants to have a job because your worth as a human shouldn't be tied to how much money you can earn for someone else. (And, inb4 "art is not a job", that is so fucking disingenuous; if you think that art isn't essential, then STOP listening to music, STOP watching television and movies, STOP reading books and newspapers, and then get back to me.) People naturally provide for those they care for and, news flash, people care about other people and their identities.
I know you're probably just trolling because you hate your life under capitalism and need to feel like you're a part of something, but like join the club bro.
NiftyBeaks@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Do you think the people who built these platforms are teens? I’m a 27 yo engineer and Marxist through and through. Just because workers unions of the past were overturned by tyrants and capitalists alike, doesn’t mean the basic ideas weren’t sound. The system in which I am forced to participate in is fundamentally flawed.
MasterObee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you think the people who built these platforms are teens?
I don’t know who created this platform, but I doubt they’re teens. The vast majority of users are young.
Marxist through and through.
Please educate yourself then. Marxism has only resulted in death and destruction. It has put countries back hundreds of years and have killed hundreds of millions of people.
Just because workers unions of the past were overturned by tyrants and capitalists alike
I’m pro union, and capitalist. Capitalism isn’t anti-union. Once again, please educate yourself. Advocating for marxism is 100x worse than advocating for nazism.
The system in which I am forced to participate in is fundamentally flawed.
Please move to a communist country and see what you’re forced to do.
The only reason you’re an engineer is because you were allowed that choice. Under communism you would likely have been killed simply for being college educated.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Free market corporate capitalism as practiced in the West is absolutely anti-union. If you have another model to point to, feel free.
MasterObee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s not capitalism, that’s government not doing their job.
Biden forced the railway workers to keep working despite the strike. Is that due to capitalism?
sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
lol young people
you’ll be first to get scraped up with a snow shovel
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lmao. Here’s the bootlicker to vehemently defend the shit ass system stepping on his neck, whilst shitting on “young” ppl because that’s the only thing left for him to feel better about his sad life.
Btw, I’m 37 and I still haven’t become a lifeless drone who bitches about young ppl.
And before your next predictable retort; I’m successfully self employed and I work harder than you - I guarantee it.
Doesn’t mean I can’t advocate for a better life for the next generation because I had to work hard. Doesn’t make me a special snowflake or better than anyone else.
MasterObee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Boot licker because…I think communism is bad?
Or because I think the youth obsessed with social media and gender identity will have a rude awakening when they actually have to get jobs?
Btw I’m 29 and I still haven’t become a lifeless drone who bitches about young ppl. I bitch about idiots who think communism is good and gender identity is the most important thing in the world.
And I don’t care. I’m glad you’re successful. I feel sorry for you that you work harder than I do.
I’m decently successful, working for a small company, and I work maybe 3-4 hours a day. I don’t want to work, I want to live life. I’m living a great and happy life every day, that’s what I strive for, I don’t strive to work as hard as I can.
Are you talking about communism?
If you are self employed, it’s because of anti-communism policies, and you have capitalism to thank.
You’re welcome - from Capitalism.
jerrimu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When your “gender identity” is under attack from people who literally want you exterminated, it just might be the most important thing in the world. None of my kids are Trans, but if they were I would fight for them. I fight for all the kids that are oppressed by wankers like you.
MasterObee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nobody is under attack.
There’s some bigots, but what rights are under attack?
Not literally. Just because I recognize a man is a man, doesn’t mean I literally want to kill them.
How? How would you fight for them? What rights do they not have that an average person has?
You don’t fight for all kids, or you’d be protesting abortions.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I work hard because I want to retire in two years, not twenty.
I want to retire because I started out under the boot of surpressed wages because of the corruption incarnate in capitalism.
Someone like you with a cushy job (that sounds pretty ripe for being automated) has zero clue of the hardships inflicted on everyday working people. Maybe soon you will find out.
There is no way forward for the current system that doesn’t crush millions of people with starvation and destitution. It’s quite inevitable.