Nullstring 🏴‍☠️1h ago
Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I love this quote. It highlights the absurdity at the heart of our society.

Under capitalism, it's very normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich, not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane.

#Socialism
#Capitalism
#WealthInequality

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Show threadAKingsbury6h ago

@IndyRichard

Yes, it's super easy to use lies to push pretty much any agenda.

Do children ever go hungry under #socialism? Or #communism?

Show threadMark Koek1h ago
@AlexanderKingsbury @IndyRichard as in North Korea, Cuba, or Venezuela?
Show threadMiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸4h ago
@IndyRichard Reminded me of a post I saw a few weeks ago: "if we put a litre of poison into a billionaire's pool, that's a crime. If they put hundreds of gallons of poison into our drinking water, that's just the cost of doing business."
Show threadRage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🫂🔞2h ago
@IndyRichard Someone tell Elan Mosk that such thinking is the real mind virus.
Show threadeobet29m ago
@IndyRichard and it's equally absurd that politicians measure success in economic growth, to the point that any corporation which experiences less profit than the year before considers that a failure even if those numbers are still in the billions, yet schools or social services and hospitals should just accept budget cuts every year.
Show threaddisorganized tropical low16s ago
@IndyRichard along the exact same lines, the idea that a company could still be profitable just less so is considered insane and naive, as well as the idea that if a company can’t be profitable unless it’s killing people or making things unsafe or criming in whatever way then it’s not a business plan and shouldn’t exist