• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      The for profit media and captured education system has pitted non wealthy Americans against each other irreparably by design.

      As they rage over how to address the social issue symptoms of our crony market capitalist economy, the one truly unapproachable topic is remaking our economy to reward honest labor over increasingly abstract (credit default swaps, stock shorts, etc) speculative, insider information laden GAMBLING, or rebuilding a safetynet for our fellow neighbors that struggle, and that necrotic economy we the people have been largely deluded into not wanting to address causes or exacerbates all the problems we do get a vote on to provide the illusion of choice.

      Example: abortion is usually an economic decision, and rightly so. If the owner’s greed hadn’t required 2 full time incomes to run most households, and the minimum wage were a living wage, there would be less abortion and birth rates would go up, no threats or bans required. Worker productivity skyrocketed for decades, but that wasn’t enough, everyone get into the factories and cubicles and make the masters moooooaaaaaaar!!!

      To thunderous applause as the tens of millions of deluded economic victims are told GDP is life, and life is GDP, and if they’re struggling, it’s the powerless homeless people outside dying faults, lowering property values that stopped them from getting a raise. Bullshit.

      The United States isn’t a society, it is a death cult of greed/avarice enablers, and it’s easy to see if you recognize the deification of our supposed “free market” they shove down your throats as the self-serving lie that it is.

      Freedom without responsibility is a destructive force. The owners feel no responsibility towards the nations they exploit, including ours.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        19 hours ago

        Clearly the reason my life sucks is because of the people in a lower station than me that have and control nothing.

        Couldn’t possibly be the people in a higher station than me that have and control everything.

        Nope. Damn homeless gay Mexican transgender immigrants. Dey derkerder.