Mudface

Sure thing, man

I mean no way are you better off than cavemen, hunter getherers, Cubans, Venezuelans, 1940’s Germany or the old USSR.

Medieval England, would you rather live there than here?

Where is this non-capitalist utopia that you’re thinking of when you’re saying this?

We have seen many alternatives to capitalism. They are all much much worse than capitalism.

You act as if humanity just popped into existence and started capitalism 200,000 years ago lmfo

The reality of capitalist economies has turned out to be: Living in the freest and richest nations the world has ever seen. If you’re too hot you can set the thermostat to cool down and if you’re too cold you can just turn the heat up.

You have ample choices for food, leisure and activity. More than anyone else has ever had in all of human history.

You only need to work a fraction of an hour for a meal, instead of all day long (and often working for days on end and not ever bringing home anything to eat)

You’re the most comfortable any human has ever been. Surviving is so easy for you, you feel the need to complain that ITS NOT EASY ENOUGH.

Think about if you had a flat tire in your car. You go to get another tire to replace the one with a hole in it.

But the tire factory only manufactures 300 tires a day. Because they only have a handful of employees who feel like making tires and they only really want to work around 10 hours a week.

Now tires are pretty rare. And that means they are difficult to find. Also, rarity is a supply and demand thing, so now tires are also incredibly expensive. People want a lot of them, but the tire manufacturing plant doesn’t make enough.

Oh, and while you were inside the shop being surprised at the 22 month wait for your replacement tire, and the $3,500 price tag for just the single tire, the other 3 tires were stolen off your car in the parking lot.

Cause people don’t want to pay those prices, or wait that amount of time, which has lead to a massive car tire black market

Wish I could upvote this 10x

It’s pretty obvious by the language you’re using that you’re a communist ‘selling your time to capitalists’ isn’t really very subtle

I don’t understand why these people think they’d have All this free time.

If there wasn’t an industry to sell us all the things we buy, people wouldn’t just volunteer to do it.

You’d be spending all your time learning how to hunt, fighting with your neighbours over territory, waging war over it likely, and dressing your kills to help feed your family.

Your wives would probably be busy trying to avoid being raped by your enemies while you’re out trying to bring home dinner and making clothes out of threads.

People think there would be starbuck’s to just walk into and start making coffees for people? Just some random dude who thinks ‘Hm, today I’m going to go and make coffees for people for a couple hours’ is this guy seriously okay?

Lemmy users do not understand why things are the way they are. They’re …. Childish. Child-like.

It’s almost like they imagine the government will be just like their parents and fund their lifestyle like they did when they were actually children.

Take them to swimming lessons, sign them up for art classes, dinner just magically appears on the dinner table everyday, they can spend all day just hanging out with friends and playing video games or whatever they want to do.

I think lemmy users, for the most part, are stuck having a crisis of changing from childhood to adult hood.

They’ll likely grow out of it, but boy is reading shit like this fucking embarrassing to adults

Here’s a hint, lemmy communists:

Without capitalism, you’ll do what the government decides you will do, for however long they decide you should do it for. If you’ve been farming wheat for 3 years and the government decides there’s too much wheat and not enough apples, you’ll be picking fucking apples for 16 hours a day, without sunscreen or water or breaks.

Or you’ll be shot and your family will be put in prison.

Why is there so much communist content on lemmy?

Also, probably a good idea to go easy on the carbs

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