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they live like gods
Miserable gods, like the ones in ancient Mesopotamia.
The richest and most powerful of them seem preoccupied with trying to escape the world that they currently rule, whether through space colonialism or "waking up from the simulation" or the like.
Completely true of the public-facing capitalists, who effectively serve as PR for their class.
You may be on to something there, though some of the quieter ones I have names for, like the Mercers or the Waltons, do seem miserable from what I know about them.
Still, if those are outliers, unless the quiet capitalists are secretly richer than their loudest and most obnoxious counterparts, I can't help but wonder why the richest among them are also the loudest and most miserable.
I took the RISK of investing in making workers build the unicycle profit scooper
Here's how you hustlegrind to trick more people to pedal unicycles and hold up bowls for you. Passive income is a lifehack!
now you have to use your own unicycle and smart phone app at the same time but you can't use the smart phone while on the unicycle.
and while you must smile you are not allowed to sing.
Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top
Yes because workers owning their own workplace and directing activity democratically with no owner class siphoning profits has to work the exact same because......
Oh wait, it doesn't and you're just a fucking moron
Buh b but muh totalitarian Soviet Onion! Muh authoritarian Borf Goria! Muh jorjorwell 8491 Chy Na!
My grandparents were forced to cut onions in the soviet onion! they still remember this when they cry and how stalin was holding the big spoon up to them and demanding more onions! "mr stalin sir too many onions is going to cause flatulence" they screamed but stalin didnt care
"Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top," you think to yourself as the crimson Poverty Line flashes upwards across your field of view. "Capitalism is the only system that works." The wind is rushing hard in your ears now; the bottom of the Money Pit is coming up fast. "Besides, they worked hard to swim in the Money Pool, they deser--." Splat.
Fascism is still capitalism so they must meant one of the previous systems.
What other modes of production are currently in use by existing nations?
Distribution of pretax national income (before taxes and transfers, except pensions and unempl. insurance)
it demonstrably doesn't, but brainwashed smooth brains will never stop regurgitating this in face of all evidence
Make way everyone! The big communism understander has entered the thread
He skimmed the communist manifesto for 15 minutes then stepped up to
I found the moment they met on video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL94sCAsPPg
Politicians were paid around the middle of the income scale in the Soviet Union.
Unless you're talking about like the occasional free beer or taxi ride for competently administering your job, which I gotta tell you, however much you think Communist party members did it... Like, have you had a job and talked to your boss and their inter-business negotiations? Holy shit
If I'm a government official in near complete control of billions in resources, it doesn't matter what I take home in salary, I'm essentially have the power of a billionaire, so long as I keep my bosses happy
I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Do you think that a random party guy in Siberia can just say "Nope, the USSR cannot get any oil now" and nothing would be done and he'd be showered in women and coke? Or... Yeah, what the fuck are you talking about?
When asked to criticize communism, liberals will simply describe capitalism.
Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top
Therefore the best system is the one that directly rewards the most horridly destructively greedy assholes around without the slightest obligation toward the rest of society!
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It's not an either/or situation, there are more alternatives available.
Name them, Captain Smug. Tell us about whatever quaint Northern European social democratic paradise that you got excited about after reading about it on Reddit, that compartmentalizes and outsources all the suffering you don't want to know about.
I refuse to believe that someone who calls me 'captain smug' is seriously interested in my opinion.
Fair enough, so without any name calling, please name some of those alternatives you mentioned.
EDIT: you commented continously for 11 further hours after this post, without answering anyone in this thread, so i would safely assume you deserve all the name calling and more.
I refuse to believe that someone who calls me 'captain smug' is seriously interested in my opinion.
I'm not and would prefer you just fuck off, but since you're still here, NAME ONE OF THOSE COUNTRIES THAT HAS A SYSTEM YOU CLAIM IS BETTER.
Neither communism, nor capitalism. A mysterious third way ((it's fascism)and thus still capitalism))
you can either have private jackasses own everything like petty kings of their little financial fiefdoms, or you can have capital be socially owned and operated without the explicit need for next quarter profit seeking, those are your fucking choices you nerd
Every person who says this will simply describe capitalism with more welfare
You took highlighting the problems of capitalism as pro-communism? One-way track mind?
To be fair, this is the Meme community hosted on Lemmy.ml, and OP is a prolific Communist poster.
OP is a Communist, they post pro-Communist and anti-Capitalist posts, generally.
I agree with this image, and I'm quite curious to see what "rich" tastes like... But I feel like the mechanics of this picture took me a second or two longer than it should to understand.
Edit: like are they balancing their unicycles on the larger cylinder? They must have really good balance to manage that for more than a second. And if that is true, what happens if they fall forwards? I see the danger if them falling backwards, but does that mean they just can't fall forwards?
it's illustrating how they have to work really hard in a very precarious conditions to keep the system running. Falling off is equivalent to losing your job/savings and ending up on the street.
but does that mean they just can’t fall forwards?
To fall forwards, you would have to clip through the wall.
