Chapo0114

joined 4 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My partner worked in non-profits for years. Her advice is find local organizations (homeless shelters, local LGBT orgs, neighborhood revitalization orgs, ect.) that DO NOT have a national (central) office. Get to know their staff, their mission, and then make pledges to pay $X per month for the next X years. This is how they can best do the work they are passionate about to help people in need. Don't put strings on the money and you are moving closer to mutual aid than tyranny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Also, 66k with no rent or car payments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This plan only costs you your humanity. You probably weren't using it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Just sending some warmth your way in the tiny way I can. Hope things get better for you.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Is that particular combination special?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, thanks for the info. That's actually what I suspect is happening with the new fractional shares thing, but the brokerage is the one retaining control.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, some (most? Idk) of the means of production are owned by the state (ostensibly a proxy for the people, I'd rather it was more direct but the government has consistently high approval so I'll give it a pass) and those are clearly socialistic.

But there are certainly factories and what not owned by capitalists, and as that accounts for much of the production that goes on in China, and as these products are not destined to serve the public weal but rather to be sent abroad as bits and bobs to be sold and promptly thrown away as serves global capital, I really don't get the desire to not call this capitalism.

China, to me, has a very clear mixed economy with elements of both socialism and capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. Great article about that and many other failures of capitalism here if anyone wants something to share with a fence sitter in their life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At least my profs who had their own textbook sold them cheap.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

And still letting Comcast set the prices

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Are we really denying that the "Chinese Characteristics" of the PRC's "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" is Capitalism? Btw, I think the good parts of China are the socialism bits.

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