Antiwork

"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich."

There is more than enough wealth in any nation and in the world in general to feed, provide health care, even education, shelter and opportunities to every living person on the planet. The problem is not a lack of resources or even limited resources ... it's an imbalance of power and wealth. A small group of individuals own and control everything while the rest of us struggle to maintain the little we have and a good number of us don't even have that.

This isn't a call to revolution or to ask everyone to violently swing to the complete opposite of the political spectrum. We have to create a world and society that is more balanced and equitable to everyone, everywhere .... the poor have to be brought up to living standard that respects their lives and the ultra wealthy have to be brought down to earth to share the excesses they will never use or enjoy.

Education and wealth is known to lower population growth so there is no need to fear monger everyone into believing that we will eat the planet dry if everyone is able to afford a hamburger.

Think of the possibilities of humanity if everyone had an equal (or least a decent) chance of an education and to explore their potential? What do you think would happen to the world if we filled it with doctors, engineers, scientists, researchers, academics, professionals of all kinds of fields? Instead of trying to figure out how to build bigger more destructive, creative and terrible bombs or killing machines ... we'd be building space stations to travel and colonize a planet or harness the power of the sun directly.

We have the potential but we keep getting held back by a small group of people who want to own the entire planet during our short inconsequential lives while the majority of us just accept that as completely acceptable and normal.

Forcing someone out of lifesaving healthcare and shooting someone in the back is functionally the same thing. When one of those things happens once, and the other happens constantly every day, we gotta consider the two relative to each other: Brian Thompson was more violent than his killer thousands-fold. The killer's act doesn't even amount to a rounding error in contrast to Thompson's. Any posts stating support for health insurance CEOs or decrying their forceful deposition is advocating for violence and should be reported immediately for its clear violation of Lemmy's TOS.

"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning."

• Warren Buffett

I mean... they're quite open about it.

Sometimes seeds need a little mulch, and a little manure. I just want everyone to know I'm doing my part. I'm CONSTANTLY shitting on Brian Thompson.

It's always been a class war. The billionaires have been using the news media they own to keep us from figuring out where the REAL source of our pain comes from.

If they can keep us distracted with bullshit and fighting among ourselves, then they can keep running off with all the f*cking money.

What an interesting thing to observe. The United States health insurance system is such a complete f****** disaster, and a great many Americans know that, but many of those Americans also feel that the US is the best country in the world. So there is this cognitive dissonance where people are angry but some still won't admit that maybe Canada and the UK and Japan and dozens of other countries are all doing it better.

And if you're unwilling to recognize a systemic failure, then maybe the best you can do is hope for a hero or at least some kind of vigilante warrior to come along and dispense justice or karma or whatever you want to call it.

Who the fuck is Brian Thompson?? Let's just go ahead and keep saying "the CEO" agreed?

It's a digital garden, baby.

Execs are tyrants, and we have an amendment in mind for that.

Don't worry, mine's been growing and blooming for years. Hopefully, I can help others' seeds grow as well.

To take advantage of this seed, I made an introductory Marxist reading list. Without learning theory, there can be no real revolutionary movement that doesn't stumble over countless avoidable pitfalls.

takes seed and gives it a single gentle kiss

then plants it in the rainforest I'm growing under my house

And that seed grew and bloomed into...
1-star reviews for a McDonalds in Pennsylvania

That's all well and good, but don't just sit back and hope that healthcare magically improves, or that other healthcare CEO's start getting their life claims denied.

Take the current well of anger, and point it towards politicians that will actually fight for free healthcare. It's not only a public health emergency, but also a "crime" emergency, and one of safety.

It's easy to sit behind a keyboard and laugh. It's slightly harder to sit behind a keyboard and email your local reps. It's again slightly harder to rally at your local reps office hours or town halls for free healthcare.