The insatiable greed of the ultra-wealthy has dictated that I spend most of my adult life toiling away for their gain which means I no longer have time for things like socialising, after using what little free time I have for life admin.
No, actaully, its really good and I love it. Its my favourite!
Oh, so now they're delusional too?!
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I hope you're not trying to refer to the one that's 200 miles from Argentina because that would be hilarious.
I'm not surprised. A barrister is, traditionally, who you would hire to represent you, specifically within a higher court, when it sounds like all you needed to do was chat to the duty solicitor for free.
What a mix up. It sounds like your dad really screwed you over there. You must've been very cross when you found out
Sorry, I mean, instead of a solicitor?
Wow that really does make the UK sound like a police state. If you don't mind me asking, why did you have to hire a barrister?
Capital will always side with the far right and the far right will always mobilise on their behalf.
Fascism is just capitalism when you try to say no. I mean that literally too. Fascism rose as a direct response to socialism (people trying to say no to capitalism). In Europe, wealthy landowners and the aristocracy funded and empowered these groups, terrified that they might lose their power. The CIA have been finding far right groups all over the world for decades too.
Despite what they tell you, at its heart, the far right ideology is corporatism: a corporate state (the true antithesis of lefism is privately owning the means of production and the community, as a whole). After all, what's more top-down, ubermen watching over the lowers, ruthless, "traditional" value, established power, amoral, consumed with greed and the will to dominate than a corporation, left with no oversight?
*Invasion --------> liberate
We already have that one. It's true too. They'll liberate you back into the stone ages. They'll liberate you so hard, your great grandchildren will still feel the pain of it.
Why does the proletariat, the largest class, not simply eat the bougouise?
More so, we can replicate those diets and not see anything like the changes people claim come from just changing the diet.
The answer is and has always been "we're all forced to work ourselves into early graves." We can replicate everything except not working 80% of you adult awake hours, to be allowed to live.
As a culture, we just don't have the courage to deal with that.
Essentially yes but it's not the underlying cause, as it wouldn't also be true in places with free at the point of use healthcare.
The group "women who own horses" will, on average, be wealthier of course. However, it will contain an abnormally large group of people who can afford not to work.
Wealth is the biggest indicator of life expectancy. Adjusting for healthcare costs, the change happens when people earn enough passively to not work or significantly reduce their hours to a very small number.
Imo, the answer is "we're all forced to work ourselves into early graves, unless you can afford to live off of other people working themselves into an early grave for you."
Ah, yeah, they don't read theory written after the 1970s. I wouldn't try to reconcile it with anything written afterwards.
I don't know what the problem is. Personally, I love the celebration of capitalism parading around the severed head of religion.
Thats fair enough but, for me, the problem is that one of the many things that are highly valuable is a CEO thats very good at paying everyone below them as little as possible, to maximise wealth extraction by shareholders. Valuable to who?
Of course, youd be right to say that how business works but I think its unfair to use the paygap they're incentivised to make as justification of the paygap its self. By far and away, most of the people in the world work for their money.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about this. I don't really care if someone who works harder than me and or was more successful having a bigger house and a faster car etc. I don't think those things matter as much to me and the incentive can, potentially, be put to really wholesome uses. To me, the only question is "how much more?"
The problem is the people who don't work for their money and just own for it instead. Not that you've said either way but they dont necessarily and very often don't work harder, have more experience or more responsibilities. Once you're wealthy enough, you can have nearly all of that taken care or for you.
Personally, I agree with it in the sense of at least the CEOs are working and there are bigger problems.
100% and you probably know this, so I'm just addin: think of infinity as a sequence of infinite numbers. The number of all the even numbers, that stretch off into infinity, are also infinite. However, that infinite number isn't as big as regular infinity.
You can have different sizes of infinity because when things get that big, the rules change. Its almost like infinity / 2 = smaller infinity.
"They're not concentration camps, if we call them internment camps" taps head