Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
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Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
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Re: Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
#2"'Just give it to me. Send me money. I don't want to work — I'm too lazy, I'm too fat, I'm too stupid.'"
Re: Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
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To your point, we don't have capitalism. We have Cronie Capitalism. The naming is genius in that it has little if anything to do with actual capitalism. It's so convincing that even those who should know better (e.g., Home Depot's Marcus) spew snake oil.
Re: Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
#5The entire basis for human society is socialism: the cooperative, collective effort to produce food, shelter, and safety for one’s community (read: tribe, village, township, nation).
It is a damn shame that the term has been so crudely abused and distorted in the USA, becoming the go-to bogeyman for those that wish to prevent the working class from their share of the wealth of the nation. No universal healthcare for you people: it would enable you to find a better job without fear of losing your benefits. No social safety nets, lest it give you the security to seek out something better.
So long as all y’all refuse to work together to better everyone’s circumstances, all y’all will continue to suffer at the hands of those with the money and political power.
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To your point, we don't have capitalism. We have Cronie Capitalism. The naming is genius in that it has little if anything to do with actual capitalism. It's so convincing that even those who should know better (e.g., Home Depot's Marcus) spew snake oil.
Cronie Captialism ~= Oligarchical Collectivism ?
Re: Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
#7"'Just give it to me. Send me money. I don't want to work — I'm too lazy, I'm too fat, I'm too stupid.'"
My boomer relatives send me links all the time, so I refuse to believe they aren't aware that the audience one is currently addressing is not necessarily the audience that will ultimately judge one's words. But I can't think of any other explanation for Marcus to provide this pull quote?
Re: Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
#8Coming from someone who doesn't work anymore because of capitalism...
If you view owners as harvesters/predators of the available labor force to accumulate for themselves, full employment means diminished actual competition between them for resources and lower yields. He wouldn't be rich if people had better options to begin with.
Home Depot jobs in my area pay $0.50/hr better than McDonald's. McDonald's is honest work, I'm not dunking on it, just a reference point. So Home Depot is a job, and you come home smelling maybe better. Not like he started something head and shoulders better to work for.
Re: Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
#9I'm particularly amused by this line of "reasoning".
First, the problem does not even exist in objective reality - as the article states, employment is at an all time high.
Second, even if the proximate problem were real, the causality must be attributed to the economic system we actually have, not to a theoretical socialist strawman.
These statements project an inner world of ideological fantasy that bear no resemblance to facts. A better take, more grounded in reality, might be "American-style capitalism is working exactly as intended".
Re: Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism
#10tl;dr: fat cat rants about poor people not wanting to take slave wages etc, blames them for being lazy.