• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    My take is that regardless of what system of government you use, there will be the affluent/aristocrats that run everything, get all the nicest shit, etc, and the unwashed masses who get whatever is left over.

    This is a people problem, not a system of government problem.

    The only way to balance everything is to basically make everyone in the country responsible for voting on all policy, which is impractical at best; the only alternative is to have a very altruistic leader in charge of making the final decisions.

    If the leader can’t consistently make decisions that benefit the people at the cost of his own happiness, affluence, wealth, etc, then what is demonstrated by this meme, is always going to be inevitable.

    IMO, someone that altruistic will not hold power since those that are supposed to implement their orders, will quickly turn against them, resulting in a coup, and the leader being ousted for someone more selfish, who will reward the those with power unfairly by taking the rewards away from the “lower class” to give to them.

    Everything is doomed to failure. Move to the forest and start from scratch.

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      2 hours ago

      This exactly. Every system of government will have leader(s) who take advantage of the system, resulting in them obtaining more money for themselves and their group. Power corrupts.

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    13 hours ago

    My favorite was death panels.

    “The government is going to decide who lives and dies by gatekeeping access to healthcare!” Motherfucker, that’s what insurance does now. The potential failures of a collectivized system are treated with more scrutiny than capitalism working as intended.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I love it when they show price gouging and panic buying and long lines at grocery stores (pictures of capitalism in action) and say “this is what communism looks like!”

    It’s like they’re soooo close to getting it, but never will make that connection.

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      16 hours ago

      Thats detroit? Looks exactly like a picture from sao paulo, brazil.

      (Those buildings are now vacant)

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        4 hours ago

        Those “slums” don’t even look that bad in that shot. Just looks like a very lived in city. The area in the meme could use some cleaning up, but it was probably selected out of dozens of shots for the contrast.