Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.
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A truly free market will always result in total monopoly. There is no such thing as a “free market” and capitalism is evil. Everything about society is a human construct built by humans and can be rebuilt by other humans. We can create a just society.
The education being a debt trap is at least in part due to good intentions gone wrong.
College was a little expensive and they wanted it more accessible, so they tried to make it nice and easy to borrow money.
Universities responded to the influx of cash by... Charging more money...
We tried to fix affordability by just flooding that market with loans with no regulation in place to constrain the universities or the loans.
Your political affiliation based on what came to your mind when you read the title
At this point the answer should be billionaires regardless of affiliation.
A) What the fuck are billionaires? The bourgeoisie.
B) What facilitates this perversion? The bourgeois system.
Billionaires aren't the problem they're the symptoms of disease. Rejection of this fact shows the early stages of your radicalization.
I think the libertarian left quadrant is the only valid one, and it's become very obvious at this point
The global economy is this monster of debt and overly clever math that is actively collapsing, there's no fixing it, and even if we did somehow, each boom-bust is exponentially larger than the last one
And if you take the economy out of the equation, it's a really simple question. Do you want people to suffer or not? Are you pro-horrors beyond comprehension, or do you prefer less suffering?
So yep... We should all be calling them the billionaires at this point
Found the Left-Libertarian
lol. I get the joke. Still, I just think anyone work a working brain should be able to notice that
You can hate Jews, brown people, black people, gingers, trans people and others as much as you want and still recognize that.
Unless your brain isn’t working right (eg MAGA) or you are economically benefiting (eg bourgeoisie). I guess you could put that onto a 2d graph as well.
Accurate AF
The end of that one Brother Ali song, I have no idea who the vocalist for that part is.
They keep sayin' we're free...
But we're all just loose.
You ain't free, you're just free range.
Brother Ali don't miss
I know this isn't what you intended, but you gotta be careful on the Internet saying 'guess who 'they' are', cos a lotta places on the Internet ask this and the answer is supposed to be 'jews'
Yes, that's a great point that I hadn't considered.
To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
Society works exactly as expected for the capitalists. At the end of the day we're only dollars to them.
Often both political parties answer to capitalist with Representatives that are also capitalists with absolutely no way to force them to answer to the people.
It's time to let this system go and switch to something new. Electoralism will not save us.
Time to do a socialism.
I think literally any type of socialist system will be better than what we have 😮💨
The F’d up thing is that being solid middle class and having sufficient income to help with a kid’s college money, put away money to actually retire, and pay a mortgage is top 10%. That’s literally what middle class was 50 years ago. Now you have to be a ~10%-er to do it.
And that isn't an accident. It's by design.
It's a race to the bottom. Go look for a job now. Your best offers are less than half what they should be. They want masters degrees and a decade of experience for "entry level" work. The more desperately poor people there are the less they can offer to recruit. Less pay, fewer benefits.
I make twice the average household income where I am by myself. I'm doing okay, but like, not great at the same time. How the fuck are other people surviving???
Edit: Just kidding, I got the stats wrong, I make a bit above average household on my own, not twice. Point still stands, however.
We're able to just barely do those things on a just below median household income in a just above median cost of living area for one very, very specific reason: My wife's greatest generation grandparents saw the economic writing on the wall 20+ years ago and went into assisted living to give their only grandchild their house as a wedding present. If we had real housing costs while living here we'd be paycheck to paycheck without kids at best.
"It's both sides"
If you’re talking about American politics, then yes, both parties uphold capitalism and its innate unjust power structures.
You can vote for the lesser evil all day, but in the end it will take revolution to root out evil entirely.
Don't forget the $1.4T/year they took out of the economy to squander on elaborate, invasive, predatory mass surveillance, serial racialized harassment, and overseas mass murder, in the name of peace and security.
They made healthcare a commodity, education a dept trap and housing a speculation market - then told you that poverty is a personal failing. They privatized survival and called it freedom.
Literally everyone.
Most people think this shit. They’re all complicit.
Bloody apathetic species. I’ve no sympathy at all.
Market economy is really really bad in a capitalistic system. One giant buys everything and controls everything.
And yet they're all for government intervention when it's stuff like zoning (telling you where and how you're allowed to live) or copyright (telling you what ideas you're allowed to share)...
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