“The world is a giant resort for 1000 rich people; the rest of us are staff”
Stuck with me
Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers
Submitted 3 days ago by Krauerking@lemy.lol to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
justaman123@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What is this from?
drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Ngl, lemmy meme
ulterno@programming.dev 2 days ago
Kinda reminds me of a planet in the game Endless Sky which had rich people go to it for retiring and the only other people were the staff at the resort planet.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
McCarthyism essentially never ended in America or this would be common knowledge everyone repeats in casual conversation
This is “crazy talk” and “nonsense” because critical thinking has been made illegal in America for decades
AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 days ago
Also common knowledge: Communism is worse. Talk about fast-tracking authoritarianism.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
lol almost everyone who says “communism is worse” has no common knowledge at all
Most cannot even define what capitalism or communism even is, nevermind talking about socialism instead
McCarthyism has done irreversible damage to “common knowledge” itself
inlandempire@jlai.lu 3 days ago
Please expand because as it is right now, your comment is laughable and one would think you’re just ignorant
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 days ago
Governments are also ok with pushing AI so hard cause just like a business they are trying to replace the workforce to save money.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 3 days ago
We the people cause them not the people to weep
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 3 days ago
100% truth and fact.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 days ago
…and actively disables and undermines competition which cannot be absorbed or acquired.
brownsugga@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The us government hands much of our taxes directly to the rich every year. Directly like oil and gas and farm subsidies and contracts to the defense industry… or indirectly like food stamps for wal mart workers. The rich don’t want to pay taxes cause they’re the ones who GET most of the tax money. (Yes I know Medicare and entitlements are a large portion of federal spending.)
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
TBF, so does socialism
3abas@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If your understanding of socialism is entirely based on imperial capitalist propaganda, then sure, why not.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
This breaks community rules. No politics. I hope I’m not the first person to report it.
1984@lemmy.today 2 days ago
That rule is pretty stupid though. We live in capitalism every day. Of course some showerthoughts will be about politics.
I think a better rule would be no party politics, no discussions of turd vs asshole. That makes sense at least.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Read the rules. This post breaks them, blatantly.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hate towards capitalism has priority over rules.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
No it fucking doesn’t. Rules are rules. If you don’t like them start your own community.
vatlark@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thanks for the report and being active in helping to shape the community.
There is gray area in the no politics rule. I’ll be the first to admit that it is inconsistently enforced. The comments section has stayed pretty civil. And the post made some interesting analogies, it wasn’t just “capitalism bad”. So I’m tempted to leave it.
Always open to feedback.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 days ago
L shower-thought
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 days ago
I have long existential showers or ones were i sing and have no thoughts. No inbetween I’m sorry.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Quite politically charged for an existential shower methinks. And this comm has rules against that
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Does this make money into company script and every business, regardless of position or size, a company store?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Yep, better to go back to mercantile & pre-mercantile economic systems of feudalism & before. Shit was way better then.
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Governments should not aim to be profitable. Full stop. Their goal should be to just eek by with enough funding to stay afloat and the rest should go to public services.
Government having lots of money only does good for those in power.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 days ago
I actually think government should be in some amount of debt as it means they are actively building new stuff for the people but also like only a little and because of infrastructure development not just military budget bloom for billion dollar planes that dont get built.
ulterno@programming.dev 2 days ago
That would be nice.
But then you get another outside government to come and annex them.
search for China annexes Nepal - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60288007
I didn’t read this particular article. It just came from a search and my words are from memory.
This is only for convenience in case you are being lazy to search.
Ideally you^[problem being, there is no “you” that will manage that] have to manage the 2 parameters:
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Governments really aren’t in this whole “staying afloat” business either, that’s corporate as well. Governments make the rules entirely, so they can be indebted to their citizens, their corporations, and even over governments and be totally fine.
They realistically need to have some sort of pathway to be chipping at their debts, but many can go into much deeper debt to churn out social programs that add value to their economies in the long term.
For instance a country could go into debt so all their citizens could have free access to schooling and college, and it would be net positive for that country because the those citizens could contribute more towards the economy than they could without that free education.
Another example is paying for bullet trains, nuclear power plants, solar energy panels, etc. are all worth the investment and worth going into debt for since they add so much value back to economies and open up new jobs.