change my view

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/238912

If you’ve ever looked at how rightwing movements operate, it appears they throw a lot of money around. And because of the world we live in, it gets results, ex the canadian trucker protest having basically all the same amenities as a festival, nearly a theme park. Advertising budget. Funding institutions/youtube channels to spread bs.

I think the first thing a leftist should do is, in order:

  1. get a good enough income for themself. This can include mutual aid or even things like food banks, depending on your philosophy.

1b) study some finance, ex the finance diet and use tricks from financial sources to boost income. This includes stock market/saving for retirement. I can elaborate later if u want on why savings are important. Including trying to use tax loop holes for our advantage. The rightwingers get an edge from this, we need to even the playing field

  1. take care of other important things like enough exercise, good diet, dating

  2. actual left things. But starting with making sure other lefties are well off financially. I’m not sure how to do this and not create capitalists. But technically if you have 0.0001% of stocks, you (the worker) owns 0.0001% of the means of production of that company. A good approach might be starting a worker co-op, where you give people a good wage and recruit youngins right out of high school. That way they learn what a just economic system is and when they branch of to other companies, they will hopefully expect just treatment and be more ready to push for a union in their new workplace.

  • Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    3 years ago

    But technically if you have 0.0001% of stocks, you (the worker) owns 0.0001% of the means of production of that company.

    Just a contention I have, but I don’t think it really works this way. At that point, you’re just being a stockholder. You’re just profiting off the labor of other workers.

    Of course, we all benefit from exploited labour one way or another, as is the way of capitalism. I think you would just need to be real with yourself and recognize what you’re doing for what it is.

    • sascuachOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      One of us doesn’t understand stocks. From what I know, if me and like 10 million left friends bought all the stocks to like best buy, we’d have near complete governance of best buy.

      That’s how stocks work right?