To anyone who supports capitalism or otherwise opposes socialism:
Do you support the idea that one man can accumulate enough wealth to own all land of this Earth, making everyone born in his empire under his rule as long as he can kill to defend it? What prevents capitalism from accomplishing this in law? What law exists that limits the borders of nations?
Why, then, must we endure a system where a single man owning the Earth and enslave it is a feature, not a bug?
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I just wanna know what people think. Why must this be maintained? Why is any opposition to capping wealth just the end of the world when it probably would save it, just logically thinking it through?
Yeah, surviving would suck. A really small bullet is survivable, maybe, if it hits the bone. Which it would, because head. Brain injuries suck.
Nope. Read a book to find out why! Davids Graeber&Wengrow, anthropologist and archaeologist respectively, had a good one on early humanity ‘the dawn of everything: a new history of humanity’, but they’re not the only ones. Base your arguments on facts, not ‘i just assume’ bullshit people extrapolated with zero evidence, based on what seemed sensible to them with their experience of only ever living in authoritarianism, then let drift into ‘common sense’.
Yeah, again, i have been in that situation. Both sides, I’m ashamed to say. You have not. You’re trying to logic your way through just-so stories, and humans are way messier than that. In my case, i was pretty actively suicidal at the time. Broke the script. The asshole didn’t know what to do, gave me a wedge to talk. Maybe it would go differently with who i am today. Maybe it wouldn’t.
Maybe, if i don’t see a way out of the situation, i just go down talking shit, you know?
No. Fear works. Violence is staggeringly inefficient to actually apply. It’s messy and expensive and hard and rarely gets you what you want. My stepdad’s wife used to hit me to get me to do chores, used to try and physically move my hands, and it was so much harder than just doing shit herself. Plus she earned my hate, and i undid it all the moment she looked away. Even if she had killed me, she would’ve had a rotting corpse on her hands. If she had needed me to grow her food or something, bitch would’ve been so fucked.
You write like you’ve never been exposed to actual violence. Only to the threat of it. Your experience of oppression exists in your head. It has been inflated and strengthened by your ego, by your interests, by your long held habit. You have surrendered your future in panic again and again and again.
You have forged your chains.
But they are your chains. Not mine. Not anyone else’s. So you can fuck right off with those.
(Unless you’re asking for help out)