The phrase “true and fully capitalist” is a sentence incongruent with historical materialism. Mode of production is not about purity of ideology. It is about how things are made.
America continues to fall behind the rest of the world
Submitted 2 days ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to workreform@lemmy.world
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chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah but we have mythical Freedom! and the whole world except us is mythically oppressed by socialist tyranny!
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day ago
It's how they keep people under control. Keep them dumb, desperate and distracted. Now wonder the US has the best entertainment on the planet.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Except if you actually toss folks a bone from the rich people’s table they’ll actually defend capitalism for you. I’m actually shocked there hasn’t been a revolt already, it’s not like the system is working for most people who labour under it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They’ve convinced half the population it’s their own fault they’re poor, and convinced the other half it’s brown people’s fault they’re poor.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They dum.
liking625@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The american dream with the 80’s victory music in the background, I can hear it
Zephorah@discuss.online 2 days ago
They sell it to a third of the population, and those people rabidly vote for corporate USA every year.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
scotus also reversed the ruling that potus can now fire at well on the 12 agencies, like cpbd, sec,etc.
you can have both private a full public option. funny enough thats the military healthcare plan right now, but its not available to any of the civilians.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’ve also been attacking tricare and the va like it’s the nhs. (Aggressively, but without openly saying that’s what they’re doing)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
im guessing service members have outlived thier usefulness as political pawns and cannon fodder.
c64z86@lemmy.world 1 day ago
America may be behind but sadly quite a few countries seem to keen on racing it right to the bottom.
ClownStatue@piefed.social 1 day ago
Don’t kid yourself. They’ve learned plenty.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s because the US isn’t a capitalist country. It’s an Oligarchy.
decapitae@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
THIS is how CEO’s make thier money, it’s how the rich 1% stay rich - by exploiting people who let them exploit them based on outmoded tropes from the rich people of the last generation, who exploited people who had very little choice when it came to ‘money’ Incarcerate the rich who own companies that don’t pay living wages
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh come on. The US leads the world, by a healthy margin, in number of billionaires.
tortina_original@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not anymore. China has more billionaires than US. 1,100 vs 1,000 or so.
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day ago
But the US has the world's first trilionaire, so suck it!
just kidding of course. that's a terrible achievement
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
we’re being dragged down by a mental midget monolith
superdrm@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
and guess what folks, the countries that have things like Universal health care, the citizen rights is taken away big time. Many of these countries that are supposed ahead of America, eating food is not a right, having children is not a right, etc.
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
No one is this b dumb. Get your ragebait out of here haha.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You’re an idiot
Don’t breed
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Seems like a lot of them countries are trying to strip that stuff away though.
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day ago
Guess who's influencing them to do so.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Those dastardly Australians of course.
outerspace@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The answer to this is “Every other country is trash. Except us.”
outerspace@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m not saying I think that, I’m saying this is the first thought my amercan friends who never left the states will have.
motruck@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
How many of these were the other way around? As in DIF all of these flip or has the US always been behind? I’m guessing the latter.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Man this tripped me up at first, usually the only people who use the term “common sense” are dipshit old men who think all the fake BS they spew is the basis for all human knowledge
mikkowus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A lot of that “free healthcare” is like getting a bandaid and a bed to sleep on. Real surgeries and such cost money. People with money in places with “free healthcare” usually buy their own health insurance on top of the free stuff. In the USA, the basics are free if you can do paperwork. And if you can’t do paperwork, you just end up with a bad credit score.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I once had to pay $250 for just a 15-minute conversation with a doctor. With insurance.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had to pay $400 after waiting 4-5 months in serious pain (uncommon injury) for an appointment with a specialist and when I got there I was with him for maybe 3 minutes as he explained I was sent to the wrong place and gave me the number for the place I was supposed to go.
I never actually paid. I refused. I’m actually not sure if they ended up sending it to collections. I was in too much pain to give a shit about any of that. I just knew I wasn’t going to willingly pay them.
Oh yeah, WITH insurance.
Our system isn’t just a joke. It’s a predatory scheme.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Incorrect. Even getting a bandage and a bed would cost hundreds if not thousands even with great insurance.
Source: real life
th0maswaschosen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have NEVER paid for healthcare and i have got some hard stuff on my family.
In case you want the “juicy” examples:
- 3 people dead from cancer where 2 of them lived more than 7 years with numerous treatments, including chemo.
- 3 heavy surgeries. The last was my father who got rammed by a van while riding his motorcycle. He got the full left leg in platinum. Probably cancer is more expensive but that one was all done in 11 surgeries in less than 2 years.
Hope that helps.
The country is Spain by the way.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
and still Trump has a 37% popularity
so mich winning
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No way he gets reelected with these abysmal numbers
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You are still clinging to the hope that there’s gonna be an election?
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I suppose for now with the cost of living being the way it is and the amount of debt that no one can figure out who the US is in debt to, we’re not gonna see that happen for a while.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This is nonsense sure we could easily have those things but those things are half measures and whatever is being used to define “fully developed capitalist countries” is almost certainly arbitrary and questionable.
Bo7a@piefed.ca 1 day ago
we could easily have those things
You could easily have the things that most of the country asks for but have none of?
Weird…
fizzle@quokk.au 2 days ago
Ah yes but the US has the “freedom” to not have all of those things.