Nine out of ten people with enough money and power to steer the system to massively favour them think that things are perfectly fine as they are. Now carry on, peon.
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So we’re going to support a democratic system to tax people and service the underprivileged, right?
We’re going to do that, right?
Sounds good to me
The real question is how do you define best system. I bet those billionaires think this is in fact a pretty good system. Though they are probably never satisfied, so they wouldn’t say best until they could snap thier fingers and a million people would start working to make whatever idea popped into thier head happen.
Well if it isn’t the best system why is it the system we have? Survival of the fittest, duh!
Sharing twitter posts in a meme sub isn’t the best system either. Don’t expect anything to change with the current quality of discussion.
Be the change you want to see! Load up on cold cathode tubes and shove them in your PC or wherever else you can think of!
It’s Neo, also I kinda agree. Though how to fix it is the tricky part.
It’s neon.
Some old book has a monologue where a character says “I am neon” and the context is that they see themselves as beautiful and transient.
The subtext is that the neon gas in a neon light is just a medium power is passed through to produce some useful outcome through its interaction with the coating in the lamp (light). The neon itself is thrown away when it outlived its usefulness and no one who receives the light of it cares where it went or what happened to it or why.
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The fact that progressives have decided to hate the space industry, probably because Elon is a prominent figure in it, really rubs me the wrong way. It’s regressive bullshit under the guise of a moral assertion.
Honestly I’ve noticed a lot of anti intellectualism from progressives over the past few years. You guys hate STEM, hate emerging tech, and hate people who work in emerging tech. While they stress “being informed”, all that really means is watching some 15 minute YouTube clip from a comedian pretending to be a journalist or reading an article from an obviously biased website, then adopting all the assertions as their own viewpoints.
If anyone disagrees with that worldview, they are ridiculed for being either morally or intellectually inferior. Usually there’s some literal schoolyard level insult thrown in. I don’t like the cyber truck, but calling anyone who drives it a “cybercuck” is the kind of shit I would expect from middle schoolers.
It’s absolutely exhausting.
Yeah it’s a shitty system. But it is objectively the best system. All the other systems lead to massive death. Like, lots and lots of death.
Implying capitalism… hasnt?
Capitalism has led to more death than any other system we’ve come up with. It is a useful intermediary step between feudalism and socialism and instead of progressing we’ve stalled here and slowly but steadily turned it back into feudalism.
You’re right, taxing the rich to pay for common-sense social programs is going to lead us straight to the gulags.
I know it’s hard to hear, but nobody is starving in the USA.
I know it really sucks because it would be so satisfying to say people are starving, but I’m sorry to inform you that it is not happening.
12% of the population of the US would like to have a word with you.
“Starvation” is a very specific thing which is not referred to by “food insecurity”.
You are just being pedantic. Food insecurity is the term used for people who may have to skip meals because they lack money to but it, it is not provided by programs in schools/communities, or they have food but it is inadequate to meet their dietary needs to grow/develope or even live.
So yes you could not be “starving”, as you put it, because you can go to the corner store or whatever and buy a candy bar, but that doesn’t mean that same candy bar is going to sustain you. You body will starve because it lacks vital nutrients.
Do better.
Honestly, I think we’ve surpassed the point where obvious trolling and alt-right propaganda are indistinguishable, and this comment proves it.
Its working
Well, death by malnutrition is what they call it. But it does still happen in the US. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-04-13/deaths-from-malnutrition-have-more-than-doubled-in-the-u-s
That said… the USA is just a small part of society.
From that article:
Malnutrition is particularly common among older people, especially those who are ill, low-income, homebound, or without reliable access to healthy food or medical services
Notice how they keep referencing “healthy food”.
Starvation is not a lack of access to “healthy food”. Starvation is a lack of access to “any food”. Insufficient calories.
Starvation looks like this: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:460/1*CdO7eSjb3Qsn-MN16cbZ3w.jpeg
Billionaires and starving people tend to live in different countries though. What ever makes someone a billionaire in the US isn’t probably the same thing that makes someone else starve in Africa. One could even say that thanks to the wealthy westerners there’s less and less starving people in those places. There’s been a huge decrease in world wide poverty over the last few decades.
Go back to Xitter and say that to Elon, he likes people blowing smoke up his ass
He did say “one could say”. And I imagine an argument could be made. I would love to see either side of it with some data. It would be interesting. Like one could talk about how bill gates has poured money into Africa that might not have gone there otherwise. And then the response could outline how the money was taken out of Africa to make the billionaires, though I am not sure if Microsoft makes a lot of money in Africa our not. And I would love to have an informed rebuttal for my own use.
Ironically I came to Lemmy with the hope of meeting less people like you who act like a complete jerk towards strangers for no reason.
Username checks out.
One might say it’s better than a system where everyone starve…
Is that system in the room with us right now? 🙄
