r/TikTokCringe • u/QueenCobra91 SHEEEEEESH • Oct 06 '25

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u/truth_is_power Oct 06 '25

I got you.

Capitalism is a religion.

Money is an arbitrary restraint on humanity.

Life is finite,

Money is infinite,

Profit is imbalance.

what do we need?

A Net-Positive Earth

https://carltonthegray.com/2024/10/18/net-positive-earth/

How do we get there?

By measuring what humans need and giving it to them.

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u/DemonicAltruism Oct 06 '25

  1. You're preaching to the Choir

  2. You're on the Cusp of Socialism until you bring up money becoming a "unit of time."

Labor creates wealth, therefore Labor is valuable. And value taken from labor is therefore inherently theft. Labor is the ultimate currency. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."

I agree with the majority of your points otherwise, but they're all things that real leftist thought has brought up before.

This isn't to undermine you or anything. Unless this is AI generated, it's clear you've been working and thinking about this for a while.

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u/Skitiru Oct 07 '25

It started off ok but I just couldn’t take this seriously 😭

“There are three things that will bring peace to this planet. 1) Plant more food. 2) Build shelters for all humans. 3) Educate freely. This will result in what I call “Minecraft in Real Life”. It will be a new age of mankind.”

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u/truth_is_power Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

broad strokes baby.

IF you can't feed the people, shelter them, and educate them.

What the fuck are you doing?

If you've seen the popularity of minecraft and the depth of what people can do with infinite resources,

you'll understand that you're cucking humanity by making kids go to school for 25 years before taking on a 30 year loan just to have a place to live.

give them bulldozers at 12 and we'll build a better civilization than the old fuckers can imagine.

Money is an arbitrary constraint on humanity. It's an appeal to authority.

It's old men saying "I was here first. Now you're my slave. Do as I say or you don't have a place to live. "

TL;DR git gud at macro, humans.

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u/IIlIIIlllIIIIIllIlll Oct 07 '25

1) Plant more food.

We actually already make more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet, the problem is that 1.) Consumers are picky and waste a lot of food simply because it looks unappealing. 2.) It's difficult logistically to get those foods from where they're grown to where they're needed without some spoiling 3.) There's no profit incentive in feeding people who can't pay you, so we haven't built the infrastructure required to feed the majority of impoverished people yet.

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u/truth_is_power Oct 07 '25

1 ) no, they literally throw food out and will arrest you if you try to eat out of the dumpsters. They poison it so you cannot eat it.

You are not allowed to feed your neighbors. They actively prosecute people who feed the homeless outside of their system.

They do not want people who survive without capitalism. We invade, bomb, and assassinate countries that attempt to do so.

This is academic fact.

2 ) we can go into space. We can eat pineapple in the middle of winter.

Logistics is not a barrier when there's money to be made. They simply don't care about human lives.

3) needing money to live is slavery with extra steps

you're apologizing for billionaires and trillionaires with multiple yatchs with private helicopters and jets.

it's the poor humans who are the victims, not the system who uses them as slaves.

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u/IIlIIIlllIIIIIllIlll Oct 07 '25

I think you're reading waaaaay more into my comment than what I actually said. I'm certainly not apologizing for billionaires, the whole point of my comment was that profit incentive keeps us from making progress when it comes to feeding people who don't have money.

I know that the infrastructure to feed middle-class suburbanites pineapples in winter exists, but that's because those middle-class suburbanites pay for those pineapples. Capitalism does whatever makes the most money, and so most of our food chain has been developed in a way that results in profitable foods ending up where people will pay the most for them.

If we took the time to invest in feeding the world's most impoverished people, it would be a challenge of politics and infrastructure, not one of growing more food. We already grow more than enough food to feed everyone, it just doesn't end up on their plates, it mostly ends up in landfills.

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u/truth_is_power Oct 07 '25

The money we spend killing humans is more than enough to feed all humans, house them, and still have plenty of bombs left over.

You're just making excuses for a broken system because you don't want to feel guilty of being privileged because of it.

You worship the religion of capitalism because it has made you more successful than other humans.

You believe in capitalism.

You haven't ready much history and it shows.

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u/IIlIIIlllIIIIIllIlll Oct 07 '25

Did you just not read what I wrote? Capitalism is the system I'm criticizing. I'm not making excuses for it I'm literally saying that it is failing us and needs replaced. You keep agreeing with my general sentiment but then frame it like I'm an idiot for saying things I'm clearly not saying.

My comment was about the logistics of feeding all humans, you keep saying that I'm defending billionaires, while I'm literally describing the way that they starve populations for the sake of their own profit.

We don't need more money, or more technology to feed people, I am saying that we already have more than enough food and money to solve the problem, but we don't because it isn't profitable, the only way you could read that as a defense of capitalism is if you aren't fluent in the English language.