• Emmie@lemm.ee
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    I am not fighting for anything. I am enjoying my life in a capitalist society. Thank you very much.

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      Enjoy it while you can, capitalism is actively destroying our climate and causing never before seen levels of wealth inequality. Fascism is the inevitable next step and is rapidly approaching. It will not perpetuate much longer whether by self-destruction, or hopefully, by replacement so that we can continue to thrive as a species.

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        1 month ago

        That’s doomer speak from too much scrolling. I once too believed these things for a time but the world hasn’t ended, improved even. I am no longer as depressed and regained clarity of mind.
        I hope you too can find peace and see the reason before all the time dwindles out like a sand from between your fingers.

        I am typing it lying on my huge bed, with cat at my side, full fridge, iPhone, iPad, car with full tank in the garage, 100 sqm apartment I own in the comfy part of the city. Steady, mostly passive income. Free healthcare working ok, education.

        Why would I want communism? I would have to be not okay in the head

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          If you have mostly passive income to pay for all that you are actively taking the gains produced by the labour of others that are most likely not as comfortable as you. Are you ok with that, or do you at least get why people get frustrated at that?

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            Life ain’t no Disneyland sweetheart. Some are on the losing side and some are the winners.

            I will win no matter the system. It’s merely a different set of rules to bend and leverage

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              I get that being on the winner side is convenient. I am too. I just see that constantly winning seems to lead the world into a pretty bad state overall where, suddenly, noone is a winner anymore.

              And all it would take to not get into the disaster scenario would be some redistribution. Doesn’t even mean you can’t be a winner anymore. Just means you get to win less hard.

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                1 month ago

                I am still not gonna vote for communism and neither socialism. Good luck with that stuff. It’s isolated to niche internet communities for good reasons.

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                  Is that good reason that there is a minority that profits greatly from capitalism that has a majority convinced that they might once also be part of that winning team even though that believe isn’t substantiated by any statistics, but the opposite is very much empirical proven?

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                    No the good reason is that communism and socialism cannot exist as realistic economic principles. Now I remember what was it all about.

                    Communism is a system that lacks any motivation to do the work. There is no award. No gratification of ownership, getting higher on the ladder.

                    Thus it never works and countries starve.

                    What’s funny is that there are no examples of successful communism and thus all the attempts are proclaimed as ‘no true communism’.

                    The reason capitalism works is because it utilizes human greed. It needs boundaries and restraints of course because greed is infinite. We get the cream top achievers make and redistribute it to incentivise bottom ladder to climb.

                    State protects the vulnerable and minorities and sets boundaries. Upper boundary is the climate one. Lower one is essential necessities one.

                    And this is the ideal that some countries actually achieved. Unlike ideal of communism that never got even close. So instead of thinking about some utopias let’s just adopt everywhere the tried and true system.