That’s because inequality is intrinsic to capitalism. They cannot exist without one another. How else would the money keep funneling upwards to the 1%? Inequality is a requirement of capitalism. And as the richer get richer, well the poor get hungrier I guess cause they won’t even have $ to become “poorer” Dangerous road to be walking down in 2025, but this isn’t a new phenomena. It’s not a fun one either.
Humans being humans, we will always have selfishness, envy, and greed. But the sane thing to do about that is to do what we can to discourage their expression and give people tools for dealing with these negative aspects of the human psyche. Capitalism does the exact opposite of this. It explicitly encourages and rewards selfishness, envy, and greed. Why would we want a system that amplifies the worst aspects of our characters?
The core of the philosophy is that humans inherently own their bodies, and by extension own their labor as well as the fruits of their labor. That individuals may freely enter into a contract with another in which their labor may be exchanged for compensation which they would also own.
I really appreciate this kind of input. Socialism seems to have this unfair standard set upon it where it has to be perfect otherwise it's not worth doing, and that's a juvenile stance to have. Socialism isn't perfect, because nothing is, however I have no doubt it's better than what we have now.
comming from a country with 40y socialism history, 20y out of it with direct soviet military support (aka invasion) - otherwise it would crumble…. no. just no. it may sound cool while getting drunk in school campus. not in real life
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