Kyle 🌹I just realized that the American vision of freedom from the wage system is for everyone to be their own small business owner. Instead of having solidarity, and developing an equitable society, we are all autonomous competitors and petty tyrants. That's the American vision of a free and equal society. An endless hell of searching for customers and competing with each other, each maximizing their own power and wealth, where growth is constant and explosive.
johanna, at the cafe counter@kcnightfang pretty sick, inn’t it?
@Johannab Yup. It's messed up if you look at it clearly. What really makes me sick is how I could say that to most people and they'd respond "Yeah, America is the best nation ever!" *shudder*
@kcnightfang I read a book once where common get-to-know-you conversation wasn’t “what’s your job” but “what is your contribution”? It was nuanced, but the assumption was everyone had something valuable for the community. Commerce was an exchange of gifts and service.
Such a horrible communist scenario.