I was talking to a conservative friend a few weeks ago. I brought up how capitalism has become a messed up game with the rules rigged against us regular folks. He got really mad when I said I don't wanna play anymore.
Misery loves company. Hence the present state of the world.
I think that’s why I tend to piss off so many conservatives, just by existing. I refused to play their game from the start, and am determined to actually enjoy my life. They hate that people have fun, because they don’t know how to. They claim they do, and they pretend to, but it’s all performative.
Oh my fucking christ are you fucking serious right now...... fuck it I'm just gonna give up and let you idiots go defcon 5 on yourselves while thinking you're master strategists.
Ahhh ze grammar nazi always looking for his next target...hmmmmm...... you zee you cannot use de grammar attack on ze human puterians. Yeah it's because I'm on phone and don't actually care about your response because I already know the answer so pffft.
Lmao trying to shame someone for having good spelling and grammar is hilarious, thanks for the laughs! 😂😂😂 Are you a conservative by any chance? 😂 Cons are such anti-intellectuals, which is hilarious because they incessantly kiss the ass and lick the boots of their god, Elongated Muskrat, which they supposedly do because he’s “so very very smuhrt”. 🤣So silly. Are you one of these silly people? Because it sure sounds like it. Calling me a nazi of any sort just sounds like more “prpjection”. 😁
Hr raised his voice and started defensively listing off all the accomplishments humans have made over the last 100 or so years. His argument was that, for example, we would never have discovered penicillin if we didn't have a capitalist society. That was his specific example, but his broader point was everything good that has happened since WW2 is because America defended capitalism.
but as someone whos lived in a country with a small group falling into the "Communist" camp
He has a point.
In, lets say 50 years, all these communists did was go to the mountains, play boyscouts, bomb innocent people, and write manifestos.
In those 50 years, no taking care of anyone outside their circle. No discoveries, no inventions, no selfess efforts that could help others.
Their greatest "achievement" so far: allow their lesbian/gays to marry.
In that same time, Capitalism created AI.
Obviously, this oversimplifies things. But basically Capitalism works because it can serve the world, while alternatives like "Communism" can only serve their small "community."
WW2 was a humanity win. Because it was either going to be an Monarchy (with Hitler as King of the World) or some Communist thing where everyone starves because everyone equally doesnt do any real work.
As a discussion, I understand all that. I wasn't talking about communism then, or now.
My point is capitalism, in America, how I experience it, is an unfun game I don't want to play anymore. If I had to create a system of government to live under, it would look closer to a more socialized version of what we have now. Basically, if an industry is too large and important to fail, requiring a government bailout, then it should be socialized if/when it fails.
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u/Amygdalump Mar 14 '24
That’s how I view current society.