• pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You’re defending a shitty evil economic system by defending the notion of small business as a meaningful alternative to work while ignoring the motivations of who you’re talking to. Doing that belies your motivations: you see him complaining as a threat to capitalism which you support, which is why you’re trying to convince him in the first place.

    I am telling you we’re going to abandon capitalism whether you like it or not, shutting down your primary goal of convincing people not to complain. I’m telling you emphatically we’re going to do a lot more than complain.

    It’s that simple

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      1 year ago

      No one is abandoning capitalism lol

      Shit, formerly-communist countries embraced capitalism to have any sort of economy at all.

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        1 year ago

        The western world starting with millennials is, and you can see it everywhere. The system is collapsing under its own weight due to regulatory capture, climate collapse, and the destabilization of the U.S. And if that isn’t enough, I’ll likely do it my own damn self with my own life plans and goals.

        No one wants your shitty dystopian hellscape. Take it and shove it.

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        1 year ago

        This is a false dichotomy where the only options are capitalism and communism. In reality, there are other alternatives such as economic democracy that preserve markets but change the property relations of work

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        1 year ago

        you did by publicly posting it on a fucking forum where people are meant to engage in each other dumb ass lol. No wonder it seems you aint too bright. Youre just like the fucking idiots on facebook who post inflammatory comments then get pissed when people respond to them.