• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Capitalism is feudalism with a marketing team.

    Land/capital shouldn’t be more important than people. Economies are supposed to be lowly tool of a society to maximize the equitable and efficient distribution of goods and services within a society for the benefit of the citizens of said society, not a few thousand sociopath families at most of society’s expense as it is.

    Our society (the US in my case, but increasingly the entire west) literally lives in perpetual servitude to one of its broken tools. A catastrophe should have leaders coming out saying they’ll take every measure to protect their people and society, not their fucking economy and it’s quarterly private profit expectations.

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      27 days ago

      You are not permanently tied to your landlord, nor is your landlord your judge and president. You don’t usually work for your landlord, either.

      Capitalism is different. It still sucks and exists because of the squeezing out of surplus value. It isn’t feudalism.

      As for economies being lowly tools, they’re not. They’re quite literally the most important part of society. They’re how we eat, drink, and survive. Unfortunately we live in a class society, and have done so ever since a couple of dudes during the dawn of agriculture started racketeering. As a result, “a few thousand sociopath families” have distributed resources in their own favour for a very long time, and will continue to do so until class society and the state are abolished.

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        2 months ago

        That… Isn’t exactly a “plan”. Can you elaborate on how we will get there?

        • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          2 months ago

          Right click the society, select open directory, locate the society.config file, right click and edit it. Set the variable there.

          Do I have to spell everything out?

          • TAYRN@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            Very funny.

            I guess I misunderstood. I thought you wanted to change things, instead of just bitching and making memes on the internet. That’s on me.

            • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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              2 months ago

              Maybe you should read a few books instead of antagonistically demanding to be educated in the comment section of a joke?

              • TAYRN@lemmy.world
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                2 months ago

                We’ve gotten very far from the topic on hand, but sure, can you recommend me a few books I haven’t read?

                • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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                  2 months ago

                  what do you want to learn? How revolutions work and their stumbling blocks? How different societies have or might manage land? how we got here?