birdwing
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- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 days ago:
A public system of all finances of everyone, as is done in some northern countries. Full transparency, so it can be seen who donated to whom. Additionally, no crypto must be owned. No ties to shell companies, no offshore nonsense.
In many countries, it is mandatory to sell your stock and give up bonuses before taking up the job if there is a conflict of interest.
I’d add that whoever earns a combined income higher than 9x the yearly salary of the lowest-paid labourer in their country, must be disposed of all that. Income must be tied to buying power.
But, if you ask me, I’m of the opinion that there are better measures to be taken.
What is given up should be held and owned by an independent worker’s cooperative fund, that will focus on the community’s wellbeing.
I myself joined a trade union, and have thought about setting up an anti-capitalist financial institution. If the Israeli could buy up Palestine, then us labourers also can buy up capitalism and defeat it by itself. We must however also defend our public wellbeing. And that means we must set up our own:
- Farms
- Industry
- Defence
- Economy
- Services
I firmly feel that we must establish our own mutual aid. When we no longer depend on capitalism and are secure, we have sown the roots for our independence from the oligarchs that form CEOs, landlords and private insurers.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 days ago:
CDs? Compact discs?
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 days ago:
No, I disagree. Elected officials shouldn’t have investments in stocks at all, period. Nor should they be multimillionnaires or richer.
- Comment on The System does not work. 6 days ago:
A €10,000,000 income still means the poor may earn only 1/1000th of that.
I think it’s better to look at total net worth, and tax over that, with the prohibition of raising costs onto the labourer.
- Comment on The System does not work. 6 days ago:
The issue is the upfront cost. Someone who is rich and can buy a pair of shoes of €150, which last 5 years, will effectively pay €2.5 a month for that.
But someone who can’t cough up €150 on the spot, has to buy €30 shoes that may last 8 months. And they effectively pay €3.75 a month.
It’s a small difference initially, but over the course of 5 years, the poor one will have had spent €225 (buying new ones 7.5 times in total.)
And that’s not even accounting for inflation, which is not relevant for the rich person (as they only buy it once in that period), while the poor person will see costs rise. Assuming a 5% inflation rate (because that’s how shit it is currently), and rounding to the nearest full mark, that will mean the poor person will have spent about €60 more on top of that.
So, €150 versus €285. A difference of €135, almost one full new pair of shoes.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
1000 ft₂ ≈ 93 m₂ for those concerned.
- Comment on Expectation Vs Reality 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t this be resolved by a drone firing something to burn the threads, then entering?
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 1 week ago:
Also that guy that made rat neurons play Doom.
- Comment on Anon plays a game 2 weeks ago:
The IDF probably also counts at that point
- Comment on Anon overdoes it 2 weeks ago:
Get estrogen and anti androgens, trust
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 2 weeks ago:
Also AnarWiki and ProleWiki (tho the latter is ML).
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 2 weeks ago:
On the other hand, Piefed also has a bit of a weird social credit system that I’m not a fan of.
- Comment on We need to ban money in politics 2 weeks ago:
I’ll defer to the Jacobins in the French revolution.
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Der Fuehrer’s Face, a WW2 US film. It showcases how people are brainwashed from young up.
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 weeks ago:
The source of the fascist indoctrination, as always, has to be combatted.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
0% because everyone should have decent wages. Tips are a way for bosses to avoid properly paying their employees.
- Comment on Martians Stay Mad _💪_ 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a nice twofold question: what is the closest stable orbit that could produce a total eclipse on Mars? And how small would an object in that orbit then need to be, to produce that eclipse?
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 3 weeks ago:
Or that Garfield comic where on one side you got the grey Garfield toxically arguing a lot with people on Shitter, versus Garfield simply blocking.
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 3 weeks ago:
fascist*
conservative are christian democrats (in the US a close equivalent would be Rockefeller Reps, à la Charlie Baker. Those are the real Reps.
a conservative is interested in keeping things as is, stable, favouring democracy (even if imperfect).
a fascist opposes both; they above all break down labour rights and align with the reactionary, irresponsible bourgeoise, rather than the proletariat whose labour they employ. Fascism favours militarism to enforce their will, rather than building bridges through dialogue.
- Comment on What's going on with Tesseract and why are people upset? 3 weeks ago:
Not just that, but he also blacklisted a lot of instances that were not batshit insane enough. Lots of users were even included. He went so far to put up individual regex blocks against thousands of useds 😂
- Comment on Is starlink internet worth it or shit for gaming? 3 weeks ago:
/thread. Don’t finance fascists.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 4 weeks ago:
There also was that one billionnaire that died in a Titanic exploration accident. Poor son though, he didn’t want to go.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 5 weeks ago:
Oops, thanks, corrected!
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 5 weeks ago:
They kind of already exist, xenobots
- Comment on What are the worst ever city street layouts? (U.S. perspective) Charlottesville VA and Lexington KY 5 weeks ago:
Most of Houston is parking spots. Unwalkable and unbicycleable, little greenery. Gets scorching hot.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 5 weeks ago:
fuck off, i’m not going to use aislop
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 5 weeks ago:
ngl this got me wondering what kinda jobs are fairly easy to enter (not too difficult or not too few availability), have good job prospects (salary, labour terms and conditions)… like how do i even learn how to do front/backend, etc., if i am bad at math?
- Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work? 5 weeks ago:
Wondering if ever in the future we’ll be able to reverse brain death…
- Comment on Terrorbird 5 weeks ago:
“would you rather-”
“Bear.”
“But I didn’t even finish-”
“Did I stutter? Bear. I love the hairy, cuddley gay ones.”
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 5 weeks ago:
Again, that is a policy failure. Do not blame the public transit & pro-walkability/bicycleability organisations, but the car lobbies.
Also, c’mon, a car is more expensive to maintain - it impoverishes you more. You have to pay for petrol/electricity/hydrogen, have to face traffic jams and still focus during travel, find parking spots, waste a ton of your local currency on paying it off, and so on.
No fucking thanks.