• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When “just start your own business” is presented as a real viable alternative to a job with someone else, they are saying it’s easy. There’s nothing easy about it. And they don’t tell you very important things like the tax penalty you have to pay if you don’t file quarterly.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
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      Life is not naturally easy- it is only because of the labor of others that life is anywhere near as comfortable as it is now.

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        We have the means to make a fair and equitable society with minimal crime and no hunger. We, as a society, choose not to. We choose the hard life for the sake of getting everything we worked for to ourselves at the risk of losing it all with one bad day. That’s not comfortable. The labour of all should benefit all so that everyone can have an easy and comfortable life.

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        life can be easy for everyone if we all chip in a little, it’s the whole basis of society, we just can’t afford the hoarding aristocracy

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          Serious question: do you think the “aristocracy” has like, vaults full of money? Like you think Jeff Bezos has billions of dollars sitting in his bank account? Or a literal vault?

          Because that is definitely not how rich people actually live. As a rule, they have very little liquidity as a percent of their net worth.

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            What does that have to do with anything? Just because the wealth is on paper doesn’t make it any less real.

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              It matters because people suggest that Bezos et al “hoard wealth” which is both untrue and impossible with the way their wealth is calculated.

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                But they are totally hoarding their on paper wealth. It’s impossible to end up with $200 billion without intentionally hoarding it.

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                  That’s not true at all. Bezos, for instance, is worth so much solely because Amazon is worth so much. It has nothing to do with his personal spending habits whatsoever.

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                    Bezos is the CEO of Amazon, he can definitely take some of the credit/blame that it’s worth so much and that he has such a large stake. He could cash out at any point, but he chooses not to, aka hoarding.

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        Dude, stop. They don’t want to run a business, they want a guarantee of security, and by rights they are entitled to that. If you don’t agree, that’s your problem, but don’t come up on here thinking their complaints are a threat to your society thinking you have to change their way of thinking to quell it.

        We’re abandoning you whether you like it or not :P

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          There is no financial security. Anyone of you, even higher paid people, could go homeless any second and there is nothing you can do about it.

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            You’re defending a shitty evil economic system by defending the notion of small business as a meaningful alternative to work while ignoring the motivations of who you’re talking to. Doing that belies your motivations: you see him complaining as a threat to capitalism which you support, which is why you’re trying to convince him in the first place.

            I am telling you we’re going to abandon capitalism whether you like it or not, shutting down your primary goal of convincing people not to complain. I’m telling you emphatically we’re going to do a lot more than complain.

            It’s that simple

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              No one is abandoning capitalism lol

              Shit, formerly-communist countries embraced capitalism to have any sort of economy at all.

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                This is a false dichotomy where the only options are capitalism and communism. In reality, there are other alternatives such as economic democracy that preserve markets but change the property relations of work

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                The western world starting with millennials is, and you can see it everywhere. The system is collapsing under its own weight due to regulatory capture, climate collapse, and the destabilization of the U.S. And if that isn’t enough, I’ll likely do it my own damn self with my own life plans and goals.

                No one wants your shitty dystopian hellscape. Take it and shove it.