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#2The illustrator could have made more of a point about quite how exponentially wider each lower layer of the pyramid is compared to the layers above.
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#4The sad thing is that with a few changes (swap the top tier for politburo, next tier for the communist party, etc.) a similar pyramid applies to communism.
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#5> the critique of the capitalist system, with its hierarchy of power and wealth
As soviet experience becomes a non-threat and an ancient memory, I hope fair criticism of current economic system will be done by clever people.
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#7One surreal aspect of the modern system, when viewed from the perspective of 1800s leftism, is that there are many programmers (laborers, technically) who have more money than the average landlord. How do you draw the pyramid then?
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#8Capitalism with a marginality of equity.
I don't know if any of you know history, but pissed off peasants with nothing to live for is a recipe for disaster...every single time.
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#9HN is removing things that are 'libertarian' but not things that are 'socialist.' If socialist content is on the table, then libertarian content should be as well.
When an article about a Libertarian movie reviewer on LetterBoxd was flagged and removed from Hn yesterday within minutes...
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/society-reviews-letterboxd-b...
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#10The illustrator could have made more of a point about quite how exponentially wider each lower layer of the pyramid is compared to the layers above.
Except the same is true for non capitalist systems so it would not have been relevant. In socialism the poor are even more numerous compared to the favored few from the party in power.
Inequality is not a capitalism only issue.