If there was an equal distribution of resources everyone I know would have their lives get significantly worse; basically anyone who owns a car has their opinion on literally anything invalidated, the working class in america is so complicit with all the bad things happening in the global south I do think they all are class traitors. Thats not to say everyone in america is exclusively bad, largely bipoc and lgbt groups are pretty much innocent in all this. I think the west owes an unpayable debt to the global south and the only way the global south will be able to cash in on it is if they engage in the same colonial behavior that was done to them against the imperial core, maybe colonial is not the right word for it; reverse colonialism? I just think that the direction of treats should be reversed and theres no way for the west and global south to make peace for the centuries of colonial violence. I dont even view it as a returning the wealth stolen during colonialism, I think it should go on far beyond that, far beyond the repatriation of museum artifacts, the seizure of machinery needed, the seizure of basically any property the global south needs to develop, I think the global south should strip the west far more than the west stripped it, I see it as a necessary bit of revenge.
-haha I mean hows your day going?
You're confusing having more/less resources with having a better/worse life - under communism, nobody will have even a fraction of the personal property resources the average westoid, even the average poor westoid, has. Yet, they will still all have a dramatically better life than the average westoid. This is because communism's quality of life foundation will be built on forming society to fulfill human needs like security and community through what it should have been fulfilled through to begin with - community-forward organization, collective care, and collective resource utilization.
Another thing to mention with this line of reasoning - westoids, particularly American westoids, have more material resources than any other -oids in the world, yet have a shockingly low quality of life to show for it. Turns out having your entire waking life wrung out for profit and marketization will do that to ya.
apropos of nothing, how do you feel about punitive versus restorative justice?
because
the idea that the global north should be punished by the global south, particularly the idea of this as its own end, and not that the global south should be given justice and restored what has been taken from it, shows a pretty deep internalization that punitive justice is still the right system, it's just in the wrong hands.
The idea that "the only way the global south will be able to cash in on it is if they engage in the same colonial behavior that was done to them against the imperial core" additionally validates colonialism as an effective way to secure quality-of-life gain.
i dunno i saw a map on here that said the average was so low the poors would be slightly better off in the US with a globally equal wealth distribution.