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Just wanna remind everyone that the solution will always be and has always been mass action.

@Viscountpost Yeah but it will be much much easier for everyone if we get rid of the landed nobility and idle rich.

I will never understand the mindset that having to participate in your own survival - the default state of existence - is some kind of unique injustice of the modern world. With the exception of landed nobility and other idle rich, everyone has always had to work to eat!

@DisaffectedPod What makes you think the people who used to work those shifts are now unemployed and receiving welfare?

I *hate* what "Covid" did to "normal standards" for businesses. 6 years on, and the change is permanent. Everyone thinks it's "just normal, you know?" now like nothing is different. Where I live in New England, *all* 24 hour stores are no longer 24 hours. Not Walmart. Not the grocery. Not a single one of the eight or so convenience/gas stores. At least four used to stay open. None do now. The restaurants on Main St in a tourist town? 9 pm closing on Fridays and Saturdays. The entire town, and the surrounding area, closes down at 9 pm. Even on weekends. Even with tourists in town. The one grocery store in town? Used to close at midnight. Then it went back to 11 pm with hand drawn signs "sorry no staffing heart emoji". Then 10. Now it's down to 9 pm. Now that's normal. Even on Friday or Saturday. "Covid", somehow, I don't understand how it could still be this way, is the demarcator line. Somehow, 6 years later, businesses are still struggling to find staff. No business I've patronized has been fully staffed in six years-I'm serious. What is going on? How did all these people, who still exist and still have bills to pay, manage to find a way to not work, and they're still paying their bills? Better hope you never actually need anything in an emergency. -J

@CiemnotaS @Troy_in_Tahoe @LizzySavetsky "Socialism is when everyone poor." is the mark of a propagandized fool.

@Troy_in_Tahoe @LizzySavetsky Sorry bro but socialism isn't sitting in seats worth thousands on World cup

Nothing says socialism quite like watching the World Cup from a luxury suite.

@_Credible_Hulk No that's your logic lmao. Bears are outside and hunger is inside and inevitable. It's like your incapable of thinking beyond the surface lol.

@nulltrace By your logic, there’s a threat a bear might eat me?

Commies hate this neat trick

@_Credible_Hulk Just because few people are starving to death or living on the street doesn't mean the threat isn't there for everyone else lol. This is consistent with your lack of imagination and seeing the second and third order effects of a job loss.

@nulltrace Because this is an incredibly wealthy country that has ~zero people starving to death that don’t have a neurodivergent disease where they forget or just get lost in the woods or something like that and the homeless rate is like 0.1%

@_Credible_Hulk How could it possibly apply to 99% of people?

@nulltrace Idk if it’s privileged when it applies to 99% of people. Seems just the baseline.

@_Credible_Hulk Must be nice being so privileged that you homelessness and starvation are not worries for you. But it's also so pathetic that you can not imagine yourself in the shoes of someone who does.

@nulltrace No, you’re just a delusional loser.

@omogenobeso It's summer.

In the past week I’ve seen more chicago tweets than I have in MONTHS. Yall tryna sell chicago to Mamdani?😭

@LilPota2 @NekoKirito7 Ovens built by workers, supplies manufactured by workers, and distribution routes planned by workers, purchased by the capitalist using previously exploited labor.

@nulltrace @NekoKirito7 In ovens owned by capital owners, with supplies bought by capital owners and distribution routes set up by capital owners. And with a mutually agreed wage in return for the labour.

Its 2026 and people are still falling for the fixed pie fallacy.

@tomesnyder @Handre Yeah but it's the lifeblood and source of all productivity.

@nulltrace @Handre Labor is only one piece of the puzzle.

Free markets are the lifeblood of any economy.

@tush_jimmyy It's not the trillionaire's fault but rather the trillionaire is a symptom of the faulty system.

I don't understand. How's it the trillionaire's fault?

@bee_fumo Now do the math for how much the west has extracted from Africa.

Last Time I downloaded and parsed the OECD data, I found Africa has gotten 19,781,778,076,490 USD so far from governments and organizations all around the world. That's enough.

@awstar11 They can negotiate it based on their output.

What percent of a company should the founder and CEO be allowed to own?

@jackvlloyd Yeah the punishment for being successful at stealing is to return what was stolen. It was the workers' first.

Socialists believe that the reward for being successful is to have your success stolen from you and given to others.

@Jake11901221 Only if they make the money themselves and not steal it from workers.

We need more millionaires We need more billionaires We need more trillionaires Producing value is good

@_Credible_Hulk If this is what you really think, it's a very revealing confession of your character and knowledge.

@nulltrace Most people aren’t agreeing to jobs under thread of homelessness and starvation

@Darifleman2c No, the left understands that this is all created by workers and stolen by capitalists.

Wealth is infinite, wealth can be ideas, it can be service or physical goods. The left thinks it's a zero sum game.

@Mann2609 It's not a fixed pie. It's pies that are repeatedly baked by workers and then stolen by capitalists.

It seems that way to you because you think it comes at a cost to other people, i.e. the fixed pie fallacy. More broadly, it's coming from envy and hatred of the good for being the good