• popcornlung [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    This is why we got to make a Faustian bargain with the billionaires that we will let them have New Zealand if they help us crush the middle class. One mega yacht is better than a thousand little boats.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      What? No. Have you read Faust? It doesn’t work out. That’s an essential part of your metaphor, you don’t deal with the devil cause you’ll get fucking screwed. A thousand little boats is way better than the aircraft carriers and battleships our billionaires essentially have at their admittedly less than immediate disposal but I doubt I need to explain the military industrial complex. If we’re sticking with a boat metaphor, yeah, sometimes it’d a yacht but that yacht is being protected by an advanced military force as well. I’ve gone off hard against small business owners enough in this thread I don’t feel the need to here, but comparing them is a false exercise as a communist They’re the same but on different stratus of power, there is no fundamental difference morally between small or big businesses, they’re both our enemy and the only difference to consider is in strategy to destroy them. Otherwise it’s a distinction with no difference.