"treat others the way you want to be treated"
"no, not like that!!"
When I was a small child I came up with a store that I called "E-Free" that sold all sorts of things for free so that poor people would be able to get everything they needed. One of my parents told me that that store would go bankrupt right away. I thought that was some bullshit.
Growing up depressed in this bleak capitalist realist dystopia always wondering "Why can't we have nice things?!?!" means I wasn't gonna stop until I got to the bottom of it. So here I am.
I stumbled on an old assignment I did in middle school social studies where we had to invent a government/country. What I had written up was pretty much based on "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need", with a couple
12 year old me sprinkled in. I had no idea what Marxism was or any idea about socialism/communism (beyond the typical Communism=no food propaganda) but my dad used to use that quote in his explanation on why I had to do chores lmao. I guess I really took it to heartSchool basically. Wondering why we structured the world where authority is both absolute and also wrong/abusive/cruel and that the answer was to "just accept it"
