Any news about Musk ventures should inspire cynicism.
Fucking despicable.
And if you think this is a just India thing, that Twitter is not trying to tip the scales toward fascists in your country’s elections, you should think again. This is important to consider wherever you are.
When were you born, 1950? Who the fuck has a pension at this point?
It can be designed ridiculously
Having a uniform — ideally one that can be purchased from a discount department store — levels that playing field.
Except it doesn’t. The rich kids just buy expensive undershirts, socks, necklaces, wallets, glasses, etc. even if they don’t they will judge each other based on their parents cars. I have been here and experienced it. All uniforms do is make a store working with the school some money.
People need to expect to pay reasonable prices on a reasonable basis for art and entertainment, and pretending everyone should be cool with fifty different streaming services and never owning anything again is its own sort of immorality and lack of ethics.
Why do freeze peach weirdos only seem to be worried about the freedom to throw slurs and spew antisemitic conspiracies?
So, basically capitalism can be reformed (as long as you ignore its issues) but communism cannot be (because you said so).
Why does communism have to create utopia to be a competitor to capitalism, which demonstrably creates dystopia?
Eleventy gorillion deaths holomodomor black book I’m sooo scared the commies are gonna take my toothbrush!!
The deaths from war and starvation over capital never seem to be the fault of capitalism to you types. That’s always just “the way of the world” and “human nature”. You are happy to let people die of exposure and then claim your pet economic system had nothing to do with it, so your conscience can remain clear while you shill for the economic model that destroyed your planet.
“I know what will help these idiot coders manage their time better: more meaningless meetings with middle managers patting themselves on the back”
Lol, no steam engines without stealing from the worker, got it. 🙄
Industrialization lifts people out of poverty, capitalism sinks them into poverty by stealing the value of their labor as profit.
Also what’s with the phrase “lifted out of poverty?” The fuck does that mean? Why is this same phrase repeated anytime some criticizes capitalism? It’s like a stock phrase or talking point that makes you sound like a robot.
And they will definitely not charge you more for it when they are a monopoly, no siree
You can have a moral high ground either way. It would be impossible to live in such a way that you are totally free of hypocrisy and anything someone could possibly criticize you for, which is what these people are basically asking in bad faith. They are saying you would have to live an impossible life because they do not want a moral high ground to exist at all. Just because we do not always meet our ideals does not mean we cannot have ideals, or that we cannot note when those ideals have not been met in others. I have not lived a 100% violence free life, but that isn’t necessary to call out something like a murder.
I hate tankies but quoting the black book of communism and calling people degenerates for disagreeing with you just makes you sound fashy more than anything
Maybe you could get an AI to write a better argument. The hammer doesn’t steal others work to make its own.
This still works because cars ruined Western society in the guise of “advancement”, so that’s cool