If you want peace and safety, you need to participate in society. That means paying taxes and voting in elections. Too many people only did the paying taxes bit, and now our society's fucked.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
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How is this a microblog meme? Can we please not turn this community into unnuanced political opinions?
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Speaking of eat the rich, I'd like a rich market. A market for the rich we can transfer the wealth from and impoverish them.
Whole Foods already exists. But of course it's owned by Bezos so it only transfers wealth from the rich to the super rich.
Costco is employee owned
Costco is the best. They've saved me thousands of dollars in the past, by looking out for their customers over the companies of the products that they sell.
wait till AI helps them to control us by learning our habits from social media
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While I agree that wages, employee treatment and benefits stand to be much better, Im having trouble understanding the argument. At the end of the day someone needs to do work to get anything
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The alternative is everyone grows their own food, builds their own houses, makes their own clothes, gathers firewood, yadda yadda.
You certainly wouldn't have the Internet in such a paradise.
That said, with all that we now have, 4 6 hour work days should be the norm.
It's about the question who owns the product that labor produced (along with land).
Why can someone be the owner of a production line?
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