• pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
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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.