• atetulo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Love this is what we spend our resources on while children go without food, water, electricity, education, and shelter.

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      1 year ago

      Despite what the GOP would have you believe, The US and EU have actually achieved post-scarcity, China is close. You should be fighting for post-inequality because that is what is holding back the rest of the world, as well as millions of citizens of the US and EU.

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        Yes, we’re just passing a bunch of money around at the top.

        It’s why I almost never take Americans seriously when they say they ‘need’ more money. They don’t know what that word means, or what hard work really is.

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          Oh really? Americans don’t ever need more money? How about these Americans? They’re doing fine on whatever they can panhandle from people leaving the Walmart parking lot and dumpster food?

          Oh… and some of those people? Full-time employed.

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            Looks like they’re living in a major city.

            Supply and demand.

            They can leave and their money will go way further. The problem is, a lot of people living in major cities feel they’re entitled to do so.

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            Yeah. That’s definitely working harder than most people have throughout history for less.

            My bad.

            the first 5 of which never took off, but also consistently failed to drive me into bankruptcy.

            Lol, don’t blame your failed business ventures on me. If you think ‘hard work’ is all it takes to make a successful business, I’m sorry, that’s just a testament to why 5 of your businesses failed.

            and I’m finally not having to work 18 hour days 7 days a week.

            Let me guess, you’re also living a higher quality of life than the vast majority of people ever to live while working considerably less. And here you are, still finding ways to complain.

            Please take your complaints to the people subsistence farming or picking through landfills for a living. All your post does is prove my point that you don’t understand what hard work really is, or what the word need really means.

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      The people who designed this were paid to design this. I presume that at least some of them have children. Therefore, resources spent to invent this did go to give children food, water, shelter, etc.

      You’re welcome.

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        Yeah, they could’ve done something else useful for society and still support their families.

        You’re welcome.

        For what? Your mental gymnastics? Lol.

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          Lol.

          Look at the authoritarian communist, dictating how other people must live their lives.

          Let’s round up all the artists and musicians too, because they’re not feeding kids or something.

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            Oh but didn’t you hear? When we live on the commune we can all do like…arts and crafts and stuff…all day. And we don’t really know how, but stuff will get done while we fingerpaint and there will be no poverty or hunger!

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                What do you mean? I was talking about how the dress is a waste of resources, then he started talking about artists and musicians.

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                    🥱

                    Sorry, you need to brush up on your rhetoric and reading comprehension.

                    Might want to take a remedial English course at your local community college.

                    Gonna block you now.

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          Capitalists doing capitalist shit.

          Of course they aren’t ok. They may think they are, but they are having to recognize that while the system may have worked for them, and me, it certainly doesn’t for most people and they can’t handle that.