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  • eatmyass
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    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, this.

      The real key is to get in, get paid, and get out, and try not to get addicted to prestige or consumption in the process (which is hard when everyone else is addicted to prestige and consumption).

      Edit: Also the entire economy would collapse if everyone did this, which is why it, itself, is a utopian vision of capitalism. Capitalism only works if the vast majority of real capital is constantly moving. The precarity is the point.

  • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Capitalism is voluntary, just move. Unfortunately we have made it illegal for you to simply move to a different place under your own power. It's going to cost you a lot of money and a few drops of government permission. If you truly want to leave this purely voluntary system, you merely have to participate in this voluntary system to accumulate enough wealth for the proper documents and travel. Hope this heeeellllllped

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Would they actually take you? It would take a few months for me to get there but the river I'm near does lead to the Mississippi which would lead to the Gulf which I could follow until Florida and then the ~90 mile open water journey and I just want out of this fucking place

  • AlkaliMarxist
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    2 years ago

    The utopian capitalist answer is that this is a flaw in your brain, a symptom of an illness. They will tell you that the healthy human brain will allow you to be happy and find meaning in any and all situations because there exists someone somewhere who could.

      • AlkaliMarxist
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        2 years ago

        TIL (that whitey is even more horrible that I knew)

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      2 years ago

      "if holocaust survivor X is happy, you will own nothing, and you will be happy!"

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      • AlkaliMarxist
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        2 years ago

        Money is energy and we are all made of energy so if you're poor it's cause you want to be. What's Calvinism, never heard of it, try shrooms bro.

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  • blight [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That's the neat part, they don't need an answer, they already have power. They just need excuses, and they don't even have to be good.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    less than 200 years ago the vast majority of people were farmers and could live on their own for the most part. before the industrial revolution it was like that for most of the planet. The industrial revolution really fucked up the "natural order."

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The elites don't want you to know this but the food in the ground is free. You can dig it up with a stick while following a seasonal route timed around exploiting food resources. I have 458 horned melons at home!

          • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm being told that the elites have made taking the food from the ground illegal and will have monopolized state violence employed to prevent it from being eaten

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              The "Tragedy of the Commons" is that the British didn't kill and eat their nobility in the 1300s.

  • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    You're supposed to get some pills that will "fix" your brain.

    How are you supposed to pay for the pills and the doctors to prescribe it to you? Well that's one of those pesky contradictions of capitalism that Marx talked about.

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  • engineer [none/use name, any]
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    2 years ago

    This is the role non-profits get to play in capitalism. They exist to create the veneer of do-goodery. In reality they accumulate power and profit off workers in the same ways as for-profiits but because they do so at a lower rate they are the pressure release valve for workers who want purpose in their toil.

  • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Attempting to channel the spirit of Adam Neumann:

    "No one has to live for money, just do what you love! If you don't want to be tied down, then get embrace your inner nomad and live the #vanlife. Roam the world, #hustle_and_grind while you're young, and set up your passive income streams and you can get that money monkey back off your back. You're lucky to be born into the greatest country in the world, so be grateful and take advantages of the opportunities you have! Everyone goes through tough times, but you can choose whether to play the hand you're given or whine about it."

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      offer void for people for whom "what they love" isn't running a pump and dump crypto scam.

      I love 17th century French opera. Tell me how to turn that into a passive income stream asshole!

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        2 years ago

        It’s easy, just be born into a wealthy family