Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad
lemmelemmy@feddit.org 3 days agoI think you need to be a bit open minded why people are thinking instead telling others how they should be thinking your way.
At this point, there’s no way you’d have “power” unless you have inherited immense wealth or provided with powerful connections. I am in favour of if I have to work, so as others. And generation that’s below boomers, physically impossible to have a relaxed life if they don’t have the conditions that I’ve wrote. it’s because capitalism is always set to “grow”. You need to profit even more compared to last period so you’d be considered as “successful”.
In this world nothing ever grows indefinitely. When it does either eruptions or cancer happens. It’s not natural. If you wanna take two seats you need to kick someone off the seat to take that seat. So billionaires hold most of the money which turns into power. Look - turns out they’re the biggest capitalists in entire human history. I really couldn’t be bothered if I don’t see Coca Cola in my supermarket. Heck I don’t even need a fucking fresh starfruit available all week. So I don’t care about global gdp or bla bla. I live in one those so called “first world countries” yet I’m afraid I’m going to die in a damp cold house when I’m old because I never had been in the class of selected people. Mind you - I’ve got my own house and savings etc. worked my ass off. Yet still the future is not safe. Bank taking everything off your hand when you’re in a tight position (for example; getting redundant) and hospitals chucking you out in the street when you don’t have enough money. Holding your baby after giving birth is a “charged service” in US. This is capitalism not people being “evil”. And this can fuck off.
Anyway, hope you done read this with as an offence. I think you need to grow the way you think.
Chill. Looking down at people is the most illiterate thing that you can do to yourself.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I appreciate your perspective here, and to be fair, I’m open minded as to what sorts of reforms the West needs to be more sustainable. For a while there seemed to be both a sense of decorum and maybe even morals, plus regulations, that help back unfettered pursuit of wealth for wealth’s sake. Personally, I think that the tech industry and finance broke that down, and with the bar set to “get it all as fast as you can,” the wheels are off the cart for both a system that used to work OK-ish for many people (certainly not all).
Like this - at what point did things work well? It wasn’t a long time, historically speaking. I’m guessing based on mention of a damp, cold house you’re from the UK or Ireland, and it’s really just within our life times that things were working mostly OK for some, and now it’s fallen apart. I’m not challenging you on this, I agree. But I’m also wondering if we’re going to look to some point in the past when things did work, when was that? A decade or so? A few years? Was it when we were kids and didn’t understand the bad stuff going on?
My personal gripe is that “capitalism” simply means that someone with a business takes their profits and re-invests them back into the business. Growth isn’t a requirement - it’s what large businesses focus on. That re-investment could be better wages for workers, or better health insurance, or nicer desks and chairs and table tennis in the break room. Growth as the goal is a choice. Also, a lot of people focus entirely on a handful of large businesses doing this. Most businesses in the UK AND the US are small businesses. Literally 99.9 % of American businesses are employ less than 50 people. Almost half of Americans work at small businesses, and they’re more than half out GDP. So when 0.1% of the businesses are predatory and problematic, but also command 40% of our GDP - it seems like a touchy problem, but a solvable one.