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capitalism is great for capitalists, they live like gods
they live like gods
Miserable gods, like the ones in ancient Mesopotamia.
The richest and most powerful of them seem preoccupied with trying to escape the world that they currently rule, whether through space colonialism or "waking up from the simulation" or the like.
Completely true of the public-facing capitalists, who effectively serve as PR for their class.
You may be on to something there, though some of the quieter ones I have names for, like the Mercers or the Waltons, do seem miserable from what I know about them.
Still, if those are outliers, unless the quiet capitalists are secretly richer than their loudest and most obnoxious counterparts, I can't help but wonder why the richest among them are also the loudest and most miserable.
they live like miserable gods preoccupied with escaping from reality
It's because they realize something as they age: For all their wealth, they are still mortal, their physical bodies will decline, and their egotistical, narcissistic lifetime will ultimately amount to absolutely nothing as they rot in the ground and cease existing like everyone else.
Mortality puts things into perspective for those people because they're driven by a philosophical imperative that's borderline pathological in nature:
Donald Trump watched the video of himself almost getting headshot on repeat, 9 times a day. Some said it was PTSD, but that's assuming a lot.
Elon Musk is quoted as saying in The Atlantic that he's "rigged for war".
Well, what war? War against who? Against what?
"Escaping from the matrix seems like "a war against reality itself".
We can only be so lucky that none of those fucks will ever attain apotheosis or immortality no matter how hard they try.
Maybe that's why they're so bent on destroying the planet -- if they can't have it, so can't you.
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I agree with this image, and I'm quite curious to see what "rich" tastes like... But I feel like the mechanics of this picture took me a second or two longer than it should to understand.
Edit: like are they balancing their unicycles on the larger cylinder? They must have really good balance to manage that for more than a second. And if that is true, what happens if they fall forwards? I see the danger if them falling backwards, but does that mean they just can't fall forwards?
it's illustrating how they have to work really hard in a very precarious conditions to keep the system running. Falling off is equivalent to losing your job/savings and ending up on the street.
I think ultimately it is just that they are working to turn the cylinder that moves the cog that elevates the resources upward and then they're hoping they get some overspill.
I do get that ultimately that is what the picture is coveying, and I agree with the message, but if the physics of it make me pause, it detracts from the message.
I guess I see what you're saying, especially since there's a call-out to someone falling backwards on the left side.
If I had to guess it's to showcase the grind can't last forever, but I suppose it could introduce that ambiguity that causes pause.
I feel like it just paints an absurd situation. They're in a precarious situation and can lose their balance and fall forward or backward. I don't think there's anything weird with the physics if you accept it's supposed to be an absurd situation.
but does that mean they just can’t fall forwards?
To fall forwards, you would have to clip through the wall.
Hmm as long as I can paint my unicycle and have a big cool wheel
All you gotta do is pedal hard enough to break the chain and ride straight up the wall.
You can make it if you just believe in yourself!
You can only make it to the top by stepping on other people's shoulders
I'd prefer to just spawn at the top, and never have to contemplate that pedaling life.
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Here's how you hustlegrind to trick more people to pedal unicycles and hold up bowls for you. Passive income is a lifehack! 
Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top
Make way everyone! The big communism understander has entered the thread
He skimmed the communist manifesto for 15 minutes then stepped up to 
Quick, explain this graph:
whats the y axis?
Distribution of pretax national income (before taxes and transfers, except pensions and unempl. insurance)
The graph highlights that during Soviet times at least 20% of wealth is in top10% hands, the party leaders and their cronies. If it was truly communism then the top10% would own 10% of the wealth. The party leaders and their cronies owned a disproportionate amount of wealth. Everyone was equal, but some were more equal among others.
It also highlights how the erosion of social services and a lack of a federal government opposing corporate interests is to the detriment of its people.
Authoritarianism is not the way, and neither is crony capitalism in a farcical democracy.
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Politicians were paid around the middle of the income scale in the Soviet Union.
Unless you're talking about like the occasional free beer or taxi ride for competently administering your job, which I gotta tell you, however much you think Communist party members did it... Like, have you had a job and talked to your boss and their inter-business negotiations? Holy shit
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Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top
Therefore the best system is the one that directly rewards the most horridly destructively greedy assholes around without the slightest obligation toward the rest of society!
It's not an either/or situation, there are more alternatives available.
Name them, Captain Smug. Tell us about whatever quaint Northern European social democratic paradise that you got excited about after reading about it on Reddit, that compartmentalizes and outsources all the suffering you don't want to know about.
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you can either have private jackasses own everything like petty kings of their little financial fiefdoms, or you can have capital be socially owned and operated without the explicit need for next quarter profit seeking, those are your fucking choices you nerd
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it demonstrably doesn't, but brainwashed smooth brains will never stop regurgitating this in face of all evidence
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"Communism works the same way, except the party leaders are the ones on top," you think to yourself as the crimson Poverty Line flashes upwards across your field of view. "Capitalism is the only system that works." The wind is rushing hard in your ears now; the bottom of the Money Pit is coming up fast. "Besides, they worked hard to swim in the Money Pool, they deser--." Splat.
DuckTales theme plays
Yes because workers owning their own workplace and directing activity democratically with no owner class siphoning profits has to work the exact same because......
Oh wait, it doesn't and you're just a fucking moron
Buh b but muh totalitarian Soviet Onion! Muh authoritarian Borf Goria! Muh jorjorwell 8491 Chy Na!
My grandparents were forced to cut onions in the soviet onion! they still remember this when they cry and how stalin was holding the big spoon up to them and demanding more onions! "mr stalin sir too many onions is going to cause flatulence" they screamed but stalin didnt care 
Don't you know that Stalin owned the whole Soviet Union?!? 
He collected it all for himself in one mighty scoop. 
party leaders deserve to top me
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I took the RISK of investing in making workers build the unicycle profit scooper 
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And the way to change it is to Vote Vote Vote! Vote for the Democrats! This time they are really gonna do it.
If the leftish faction won every time, politics as a whole would shift left. So unironically, yes, vote.
How can it shift left when voting for fascists?
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