Comment on Profit over people is a failed system
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 days agoYour first comment is exhibiting the isolationist mindset of suburnites
I don’t think you can narrow that general mindset down to suburbanites. People in all kinds of population densities form in-groups and outgroups, it doesn’t matter if they are in suburbia, a big city, or out in the country. I lived in Baltimore for a year, and that was probably the most socially isolated I’ve ever been. The east coast of the US is just a bucket of crabs, everyone trying to climb over everyone else. The people there wouldn’t even spit at you for free. My partner grew up in a very rural environment, like “outside city limits, and that city only had one traffic light of the blinking yellow variety” rural. The help they got growing up was from family. They would do odd jobs for neighbors and neighbors would do likewise, but there was always some expectation of barter or compensation for materials and services. They definitely had a concept of private property, and knew their tools, time, and expertise were valuable assets necessary to continue their desired lifestyle.
Please, contrast my experiences with yours. I’d love to hear a first-hand account from someone living in a current anarchist society.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 5 days ago
So you’re saying rural America survives off of mutual aid and community welfare while smacking anarchists with the same hand? You just blow in from Stupidville?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No, I’m saying that your reading comprehension abilities and your lofty ideals of a utopian society where no one needs property and everyone contributes as best they’re able with no concern for getting value out of an exchange proportional to the effort the put in, is indicative of a failed home-school education and a lack of real world experience.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
How much effort went into contacting your neighbor about their roof and how much value did you get out of it?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Maybe an hour of time between checking around the house to make sure no one was home, checking with my other neighbors to see if they had his contact info, calling the non-emergency police line, chekcing the country records for property info, digging up my neighbor’s linked in profile, calling the corporate office (getting stuck on hold) then thinking to check the Zillow listing and call the agent that last sold the house.
What was it worth to me? I didn’t have to spend the rest of my day wondering if he was going to come home from a day of work and find that his house needed major repairs that could have been mitigated if only he’d known a few hours earlier. He was able to get a crew out there the same day to get the tree out of his roof and get some temporary coverage up to weather then next few days of storms.