• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    221·
    11 months ago

    but one day I’ll get to be the assistant manager and hurt everyone beneath me. i might even be able to afford a house two bedroom apartment

    • Lesrid@lemm.ee
      2·
      11 months ago

      It’s natural to enjoy the work. It’s the hours, useless leaders and chronically, systemically inadequate compensation that we can only hope to resolve by progressing beyond capitalism.

      • selokichtli
        2·
        11 months ago

        It’s also possible that you are a lucky person, and you probably could use some time listening to what others have to say about their situation, especially younger people. But yeah, you may be right, too.

          • selokichtli
            1·
            11 months ago

            I guess old sayings is all you got. I don’t have to do anything with you. Glad you read my previous comment, though. Thanks.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن
    4·
    11 months ago

    In Saudi Arabia we get a massive welfare state with a lot free from hospitals to free universities, and no income tax. Yet still many would say “the government should do more”, and “they aren’t being charitable since it is our oil”. I personally wrote a report in university on how the government’s railroad projects are underwhelming and more should be done. When I wrote my report only Dammam Riyadh lines 1 and 2 existed.

    People in the US have very low expectations of their government given that they pay taxes on everything.

    • davelAEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      US federal taxes are a farce. They’re ostensibly progressive but in reality regressive, being a sieve of legal, semi-legal, and unenforced illegal loopholes for the top ~10%.

      The rail network is owned by private companies, which give priority right-of-way to freight over passenger trains, so the few extant passenger lines are wildly unreliable (despite most of them being nationalized under Amtrak). The State can and should commandeer the entire network via eminent domain.

  • lemmy689@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    29·
    11 months ago

    Deep down, nobody want’s to close the door to the opportunities for self-enrichment presented by capitalism.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      207·
      11 months ago

      imagine being so brainwashed to not even be able to conceive of a system that provides better opportunities for self enrichment than the one where majority of the population serves a small capital owning class 🤡

      • lemmy689@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        32·
        11 months ago

        Given the baseline adult education of the USA being about Grade 6 equivalent, 54% in a recent article, so more than half, I’d say the clowns are winning. Brainwashed, sure, it takes wisdom to understand the manipulatuon. Mosr people want the money, willing to demean themselves and enslave others for the opportunity. It’s a brutal world out in reality. Send in the clowns. Nice emoji kid.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          11 months ago

          In 1450 there were faux-world weary peasants intoning solemnly about the natural and immutable nature of monarchy. Know that you are part of a long and useless tradition, and spare us the glimpse into your sterilized imagination.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    538·
    11 months ago

    The only thing worse than capitalism is the hate boner lemmies have for it.