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submitted 1 month ago by gustofwind@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Is it when you use capital letters properly?

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

That's why terms like liberal are useful.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago
[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago
[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

ime that only makes liberals even more confused

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

Then we explain it to them until they get it. It's not hard to explain that capitalists are those who own capital, and liberals are those that support capitalism.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They are often just married to the notion that their principals of liberalism are not mutually exclusive with subjecting capital to public ownership.

I personally find dealing with that separate issue goes nowhere real fast with the average person and alienating them isn’t helpful either so I take what I can get.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

People license themselves into believing that that which benefits them is good. They aren't married to the ideas, they willingly choose to believe them until their material conditions prove them inaccurate through their new lived experience. Red Sails has a series on "brainwashing" that I consider critical reading for anyone wanting to agitate, especially Roderic Day's Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of "Brainwashing."

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

... the 'temporarily embarassed millionaire' has 'aspirational' capital, in a fanciful, idealized future.

AKA, 'The American Dream'

Its a kind of faith-based magical thinking, delusion.

Which, as George Carlin let us all know, I think over a decade ago now...

... 'you have to be asleep, to believe.'

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago

I had a fuckwit self-professed 'communist' co-worker many years ago that tried to tell me that my education and skills was my capital. :|

[-] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

I don't think anyone would let me use my skills as collateral to take out a big ass loan to buy some new skills while I rent out my skills for others to use while I sit on my ass getting richer just because I own my own skills.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Like I said, he was a fuckwit.

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

This made me laugh

under very specific context I can understand conflating assets with capital. but I doubt that's the case

[-] Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

"b-but i have money" Has savings and stockshares that would last a year or two without work

[-] degen@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

Ok dummy, but I get paid in capital /s

[-] redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Hi, I'm a Capitalist, I have an irrational urge to use proper capitalization!

[-] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Hello, I am a capitolist. I just really love government buildings.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Greetings, I am a Cap Italist. I really like Italian hats.

[-] AethiopeRoot@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Funny but true

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

"but some day I might! And then people like me better watch their step!"

[-] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

It's like Lemmy and Reddit, people want the promise of more content.

In theory Lemmy could be the more active network. What does it take to make that real?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

I don't follow how this relates to the meme

[-] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Workers can prefer to live in a capitalist society if they end up with owning more, or just hope so. So they can be capitalist despite not owning capital. Of course that ignores the distinction between the role as capitalist and the believe.

In general, people don't value being in control. If they would, people would have moved to Lemmy.

There is still the opportunity that those who care actively push Lemmy beyond its natural growth to make it competitive with Reddit. But at what cost? Then people would choose Lemmy, but not by conviction.

Similarly, people could stop being capitalists by being able to work in a country with a better offer. But that wouldn't make them anti-capitalist.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

You're confusing capitalists, ie capital owners, with liberals, those who are pro-capitalism. As for Lemmy, its growth is tied to recognition and Reddit's decay, the established community on Reddit is itself the draw.

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

what's the cutoff between capital owners and regular rich assholes, it a certain $ amount or is just as soon as your the one paying people?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

There are blurred lines when it comes to the edges of class, but capitalists as a class are those that essentially make their profits by purchasing labor and raw materials, and selling the products of that labor and raw material in a market.

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