TheOneWithAReallyLongName on Nostr: The main problem is your initial assumption about hard work and earnings. As you ...
The main problem is your initial assumption about hard work and earnings. As you frame it, the implication is that those on the right side in the picture are there because they don't work hard. That's just not right. Poverty is fucking exhausting, and the jobs that keep you there are doubly so. In every job I've worked so far with maybe one exception, the less money I made, the HARDER I was expected to work. Hell, why do we tell our kids to go to college? So they can get a nice, cushy office job where they don't have to bust their ass nearly so hard and get paid way more, too. So the guy in poverty works WAY harder but walks away with LESS money. I'm not saying it's wrong to earn more for in demand skills, but it's still disingenuous to frame earnings as a direct correlation to how hard one works.
You claim I'm advocating for us all to live on the right, but I never even advocated for anything here. I simply pointed out that the average anti-socialism meme almost ALWAYS depends on an example of people suffering CAPITALISM, not socialism or communism, while telling you that if we try to change, what's already happening will happen.
I'm not advocating for any sort of change when I say this, so don't take this as pro anything, just highlighting something about capitalism. It will never lift up those on the right without intervention like laws and regulations. Never. The existence of poverty, slums, and homelessness is excellent motivation for the worker class. Sell your labor to the owner class and let them keep the profits, or starve on the streets. Workers that don't have to worry about food and rent TODAY are free to turn down shitty jobs and refuse new or unsafe duties in their current job. Keep us cold and hungry, and we'll trade our labor at a loss every single time because, shitty as it may be, it keeps us fed and sheltered.
Again, not saying socialism or communism is the answer. But your job is the authoritarian fiefdom you choose to play peasant for. For all our love of democracy, we are loathe to introduce it to the workplace. If we won't, we need laws and regulations to protect us as workers because the owner class wields waaaay more power than us in every interaction we have.
You claim I'm advocating for us all to live on the right, but I never even advocated for anything here. I simply pointed out that the average anti-socialism meme almost ALWAYS depends on an example of people suffering CAPITALISM, not socialism or communism, while telling you that if we try to change, what's already happening will happen.
I'm not advocating for any sort of change when I say this, so don't take this as pro anything, just highlighting something about capitalism. It will never lift up those on the right without intervention like laws and regulations. Never. The existence of poverty, slums, and homelessness is excellent motivation for the worker class. Sell your labor to the owner class and let them keep the profits, or starve on the streets. Workers that don't have to worry about food and rent TODAY are free to turn down shitty jobs and refuse new or unsafe duties in their current job. Keep us cold and hungry, and we'll trade our labor at a loss every single time because, shitty as it may be, it keeps us fed and sheltered.
Again, not saying socialism or communism is the answer. But your job is the authoritarian fiefdom you choose to play peasant for. For all our love of democracy, we are loathe to introduce it to the workplace. If we won't, we need laws and regulations to protect us as workers because the owner class wields waaaay more power than us in every interaction we have.