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:
- 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
take care of other important things like enough exercise, good diet, dating
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.
There’s a liminal group of people for whom a budget will be the difference between not building a safety net, and building a safety net; it’s just not very large.
The rest? Well, they’re somewhere around here right about now: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2022/04/12/its-not-about-the-pasta-kevin-jack-monroe/
It really winds me up when advice that would be handy for the former gets used as advice for the latter - the old “financial literacy classes at food banks” jobbie, for instance.
Will a budget/spending plan fix systemic issues like you see in your link, https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2022/04/12/its-not-about-the-pasta-kevin-jack-monroe/, no. But if someone goes from no ‘spending plan’ to having one, it will probably help, since it helped me.
Might be bc we live in different places, but I never see “financial literacy classes at food banks”, however when I occasionally see job ads at poverty focused places, I found those quite helpful - it’s how i got into the work im doing currently