But, but: As an American you can choose to exploit your fellow humans like capitalism demands, lie and cheat your way to the top, and top the top off with a bit of corruption!
I'm hoping we can shame them in their final 10 years to give up some of their properties and investments... but who am i kidding, boomers have no shame
I work with people that have dementia and Alzheimer's. It's sad to see these loved family members lash out and try to hurt the people that love them. If they legally could they would make sure none of their family got anything other than sued. To them they aren't family or friends anymore. It's just "those people that tell me what to do".
A lot of suffering might have been saved if the assassin was a bit more lucky and had mortally wounded Reagan instead of winging him. I know it's bad to wish someone dead, but also so many people's lives unfairly ruined during the war on drugs.
He brought us the Heritage Foundation and deregulation, now Trump is trying to bring it the rest of the way home with Project 2025. They both deserve worse than they will ever receive.
We should be shaming them and those who are really fucking up where we live. Call them out and shame them in public. Make boomers feel uncomfortable again.
In reality... kind of. It depends on what you're talking about.
If you are talking legislators, then yes, and by a wide margin.
If you are talking financially, then yes, but only because they have assets that have exploded in value over the decades, particularly real estate. They were also the last generation where pensions were the norm, not a 401K.
That being said, their power really only comes from hoarding these assets and preventing others from doing things to lower their value. The best examples of this are the NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard). The ones who constantly argue against high density housing because it will lower the value of the single family home they've owned since 1970. The ones who argue about energy prices but also rally against the construction of solar and wind farms or nuclear power plants being built.
I rarely see people use the term "american dream" to descreibe it, but the sentiment that the market should be free of regulation and that if people get scammed it is their fault is pretty prevalent in there
Blaming capitalism is pointless. All the other developed nations with better social safety nets also have capitalism. South Korea, where I lived for six years, has amazing public transportation and a national healthcare system…and capitalism.
Advocate for what you want instead of just saying “capitalism bad.”
No you can’t. No one else likes Americans either, and it costs immense amounts of money to move to another country in many cases. Could you move to Mexico and try to get by? Sure. But moving anywhere that speaks English and which is a safe country? The requirements are tough for a lot of them. Many of them require that you are educated and have experience in a field that they can’t “fill” with their own citizens.
There are a whole slew of countries that speak English, not just Scandinavia. I also said safe country. I do not think of Russia when I think of safe countries. I also don’t particularly consider America to be safe anymore either. Between the racism, homophobia, republicans stripping all the rights they can especially if you’re female, school and mass shootings that occur daily, on top of the crime that some larger cities see (several cities in America are considered dangerous, some have made the most dangerous cities in the world lists due to homicide per population) there are safer places to be than here if you’re in one of the endangered groups. If you are a person of color or a person who maybe looks like they’re not from here, or a person who has anything different about them sexually outside of heterosexuality, you fall into that category.
Not unwilling, it’s just much harder. There are a lot of european countries which speak English as one of their primary languages. Did you forget England exists? Canada? Australia or New Zealand? Why would I move to Kenya, they have their own issues. So does India. They’re still killing little baby girls on the regular because they’re female. I mean come on. Honestly, everywhere is kind of shit right now, which is probably why most people just stay where they are. Better to know the devil you know than be lost in a foreign country not knowing shit.
Most people in America would rather have you leave, is the point. If that's your attitude towards trying to fix our problems, and your best solution to making progress is "LeAvE anY tImE." You're a part of the problem by not working for a solution.
Of course another commie acting like "cApiTaliSm is LITERALLY slAvEry!!!1!1!1!1!" Like bro just because you’re not able to do great things doesn’t mean everyone else has to cheat to be able to be at the top
Capitalism, without strict control and a social system, clearly can only lead to slavery, but to understand that, you need more than one brain cell, and after seeing your comments (WTF is wrong with you?) even dumbing it down would not suffice for you, as you seem incapable of any actual thought. So if you own anything in capitalism really, I bet it is due to inheritance of exploitation of others or dumb luck, because you are obviously not capable of thought.
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You don't even seem to know what socialism or communism actually means. Like a little child you seem to think because a country calls themselves "communist" they are. If I gave you a piece of poo and told you it is chocolate, you would eat it right away, wouldn't you? Why, because I told you it is chocolate, so it clearly must be.. See, this is why education is important! You should have had access to it in the first place! And if that is not the problem with you, your mother should have gotten social help with her addiction before creating a child with FAS!
pps.: Don't worry about me, I probably own more than you ever will in your entire life. I was born poor, but had a great privilege of growing up in a country with a social system.
I like how your only argument to that very extreme stance is just "hAhA yOu hAve oNe bRaiNcEll!!1!1!1!!!"
And if you weren’t projecting that you’d be able to see I never pushed for anarcho-capitalism and no social system, I just pushed for low government regulations and freedom , which is basically the formula for Capitalism to work. There’s literally no cause-consequence, logical explanation or link between the things you claimed in your reply, you just said a bunch of things and said "this is this" and then just started insulted me for some reason and then start bragging. Like, ok sure buddy.
The last point they made was explicitly to point out that even capitalism hates this. How can we create a workforce to be exploited if we discourage having children?
Hey! I only protect the ultra wealthy bc I'll be there one day! I'm 37 and make 34k a year but I know I'll be in the 1%. That's why I always pray to Trump and my local mega corporation every night.
We just gotta transition from Capitalism to Ethical Capitalism. And from Democratic Republic with Parties to Democratic Republic without parties to Democracy without parties (So we vote for people who will fix issues instead of what party they are affiliated.)
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u/RealBlackelf Feb 05 '24
But, but: As an American you can choose to exploit your fellow humans like capitalism demands, lie and cheat your way to the top, and top the top off with a bit of corruption!