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outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoYou act like a shitty unjust system of exploitation can ever be made just.
Like the abstractions youve been trained to hold dear are ‘real’ and not abstractions so many fucking degrees out. ‘Money’ and ‘inflation’ are fake. We made them the fuck up. Outside of systems designed to value them theyre entirely nonsense.
Yes we’re being robbed, thats the nature of labor when ownership is valued above it! When accumulation and centralization is the fundamental incentive! The very system was designed to lie and exploit, yes, of course its doing that. Why do you tjink the fuckers lying to you and exploiting you love it so much?
You act like you can fix a bisection with a band-aid. Like you can fix something so thoroughly broken without fundamental systemic change.
Like, metaphor time: combustion engines are bad, but switching to electric cars powered by coal power plants isn’t really better. You get that right? We need trains, ideally powered by overhead wire renewables, so we arent hauling 2-10 tons of vehicle around for every hundred pounds of human. And maybe more local production of heavy shit.
hector@lemmy.today 6 days ago
You have no cause to accuse me of not seeing things like they are first of all.
Second of all you just refuted my own point while agreeing with me. You could have just added to my point, but you refused it and then expounded on the same subject.
The inflation rate is a real tangible thing people can understand, that shows how full of shit the system has been for our entire lives.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
But the whole system is shit. Its designed to fuck you without your consent.
These things are not failures. They’re working as intended, and without a gun to its head, its always gonna do that shit.
hector@lemmy.today 6 days ago
I know the system works because it used to work.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Work for whom?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
It didn’t. That was colonial extraction, internal exploitation of women+poc, and compromising with communism while we still had a labor movememt and the threat of the ussr. It was an intermediate form forced on it by circumstance, it’s not sustainable, youre ignoring all the costs, and the system’s own incentives are what destroyed it. What will always destroy it.
And with global warming/climatepocalypse; we need to be doing better than that imagined bullshit rough-edges-sanded-off version of the 1950s anyway. which we can; why are you so hostile to the idea?