yeah but it’s almost like those comforts and services of modern society should be able to still be performed without trying to extract value for shareholders and we just choose not to because line go up make (rich) monkey brain happy. I believe there are, in fact, plenty of people willing to do the things that make the world run, completely for free, if only we did not operate on a global system that enriches shareholders, executives and politicians while paying the people doing the actual work a pittance and forcing them to struggle to survive.
And let’s be very clear about what your definition of “obligations to society” is – busting your ass creating value that is extracted from you for ~40 years for comparatively dogshit pay on the tenuous promise of retirement somewhere down the line, a promise that is actively being taken back by the upper class. Now, you work until you die unless you’re very, very lucky. I don’t find that a very compelling or fair deal, and if you do, would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?
yeah but it’s almost like those comforts and services of modern society should be able to still be performed without trying to extract value for shareholders and we just choose not to because line go up make (rich) monkey brain happy. I believe there are, in fact, plenty of people willing to do the things that make the world run, completely for free, if only we did not operate on a global system that enriches shareholders, executives and politicians while paying the people doing the actual work a pittance and forcing them to struggle to survive.
And let’s be very clear about what your definition of “obligations to society” is – busting your ass creating value that is extracted from you for ~40 years for comparatively dogshit pay on the tenuous promise of retirement somewhere down the line, a promise that is actively being taken back by the upper class. Now, you work until you die unless you’re very, very lucky. I don’t find that a very compelling or fair deal, and if you do, would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?
Last I checked, water systems, sewage, roads, schools, firefighters, etc are not owned by capitalists/billionaires/whoever your enemy is.
Rome had some of those. The Soviet union had those. North Korea has those.
If your problem is with capitalism, don’t blame “society”, just move to one of the communist paradises out there.
Yeah you should go live in the bush for a few years. Your mind has been cooked by populism.
and you have stockholm syndrome for capitalism, but I forgive you.
What economic system do you prefer?