It’s almost like capitalism functions better when workers are payed enough to buy things! I mean fuck Henry Ford was a frothing-at-the-mouth raving prejudiced lunatic, but he had enough practical sense to at least recognize that. This “lost” $12 billion isn’t gone, it’s just sitting in hedgefunds generating more digits, which they’ve decided is somehow more real than facilitating the next generation to buy into the hegemonic status quo.
Fuck. Damn. I mean, perhaps the most low-key aggravating stuff about communist theory is understanding enough about how capitalism works that you get aggravated when the ding dang old capitalists themselves can’t even do it right.
It’s almost like capitalism functions better when workers are payed enough to buy things!
Capitalism concentrating money in the hands of the few is working as intended. It is intrinsicly not sustainable.
This kind of bithching at poor people is just authors sucking up to their masters.
Yeah, the purpose of a system is what it does, not what its “supposed” to do.
It’s just interesting how what the capitalists intend can change so drastically over a single human lifetime. The Great Depression disabused a lot of people (working class and owning class) of any notion that capitalist markets can self-correct all on their own. Lead to a bunch of ideas and policies that prioritized outcome above simplified, idealized pictures of how markets were “supposed” to work. You get the New Deal and Great Society projects that do improve conditions for (some) working people and (more importantly to those in power) make the system more robust, more shock resistant.
…and subsequently, the first World War, the Great Depression, and the second World War recede from living memory. Lived experience gets replaced with idealized simplifications and the ruling class starts ripping out all the counter-weights and safety nets that ultimately, ironically, were put there for their own long term benefit. It’s a fantastic joke. And somewhat troubling to be living in.
At some point they are going to make it illegal for kids to stay with their parents past 18, aren’t they? They won’t make housing more affordable, but they will happily create a massive youth homelessness crisis so they can skim a tiny bit more rent money off the top.
Arm all homeless
I really think they’re just gonna bring back workers dormitories, people will be sleeping in Amazon bunkhouses soon.
That sounds expensive, much cheaper to just keep the shanty towns around the warehouses instead.
Those only work in socialist countries like China, where the companies pay for food etc. Imagine how horrific they’ll be in the modern era with 24/7 surveillance
No one can afford to fucking live. We’re all trapped in hell.
No fedposting, so just imagine I wrote something violent, yet inspiring here
Probably involving lasers and dinosaurs
Ooh, and a giant robot
Somebody could turn that into a non-fedpost image.
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how is that being lost, sounds more like they found it and kept it
It’s the same thing as a business declaring that money they were projected to earn but didn’t is a loss
When working for a small business tyrant I actually got to call that out in a staff meeting. It rocked. It was a hole in the wall vegqn place thst required a good reputation to stay afloat so I could talk back as much as I wanted on account of my friends on the labor board. She also used 'no ethical consumption under capitalism ’ one time to justify a shitty business choice and I pointed out she is the capitalist that we are under. One time she went anarchist and said the place was a flat hierarchy except she was on top…I pointed out that is what an absolute dictatorship would be. Never trust a hippie.
Holy shit, you literally worked for a petite-bourgeois anarchist?
Were… were the sectarian tankies right???
I dod t mean that literally. She was just generally woo.
I figured but it’d be a funny bit idea, the anarchist vegan cafe owning Kulak!
“Well this is a MOSTLY non-hierarchical community, since it’s just me making more money than you guys.”
It’s not far from it, she would maybe have described herself as an anarchist but she was like those Zeigeist movies from the late 2000s brained hippie type. She named one of her kids Leeloo cause her favorite movie is 5th Element. She buried her placenta under a tree after another kid was born and the tree died
I feel like I meet a dozen of this person at the burning man downstream thing that I go to. >.>
Black Book of Communism but for the American financial sector.
Capitalists the biggest hoarders around complaining about younger people hoarding because they can’t afford things
Like the brits say “am I a prick?” Is it hoarding if no one is able to save? Kkkapitalists are projecting as always
It’s hoarding to not burn your lifeforce at both ends, to not take more gigs instead of sleeping, to not die of karoshi at age 40 thereby sparing the healthcare system (with still no house)
You can really see they are trying out new messaging. There was also the story about how we are all “hording” phones by… just deciding to keep the phones we have for longer.
I lived at home until I was 24
That makes me the greatest economic terrorist who ever lived
“Hey! Everything should be a luxury for the rich!”
“What! The poors are living with mommy and daddy? How could this be happening? Aren’t they embarrassed they’re not rich people renting out like billionaires? Normal people are rich nepo babies, right?”
They’re stupid on purpose just to piss me off.
How dare people realize that interest, in the many forms it comes in, is a scam and avoid it?! The money isn’t happy about this one!
As if any Gen Zer can afford a house in this market lmao.
Also here in the UK it’s a lot cheaper to get a flight to another country than it is to get the train to a city a few hundred miles away.
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Next up: having roommates is “hoarding wealth”
