Can’t have people given an option to not take exploitive jobs just to eat
This is why I’m so disgusted every time someone says “republicans and democrats are basically the same”, which I most often hear from Europeans.
I guess only in the sense that both parties are right wing? One is just extreme in that direction?
I’m expecting Republicans to propose opening debtors prisons where you have to work for free to pay off debts.
Good thing none of them read history.
I don’t care what the science says! I don’t care about the suffering of others! This offends my capitalist sensibilities that I have never questioned and I’m not about to start thinking too hard about it now just because some hippy libs want to sneak communism in the back door!
I have zero respect for this world view and hope we are able to simply bulldoze it with unstoppable momentum.
Nicely put. I just cannot tell if that is how you feel or your just channeling.
For me, I am divided. On one hand people do nothing unless motivated and needing basic necessities is a powerful motivator. On the other, I am curious as to the most cost effective approach. Plus I would much rather spend money on people getting along then police and armies.
Edit: Just thinking, maybe call me a libertarian socialist. Maybe that is why I am always confused.
people do nothing unless motivated
this is an assumption worth challenging. the evidence suggests, in fact, that people are almost always doing things!
It is an interesting question. That is, the question if what motivates people to be productive. I think it varies widely.
the question if what motivates people to be productive. I think it varies widely.
That is accurate, but does not mean that basic survival should be that motivation.
I’m making fun of it. I am also a libertarian socialist or something.
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‘Is money a birthright now?’
If it’s not, then logically a 100% inheritance tax must be imposed. After all, nobody is entitled to money just for being born, right?
I suggest you go to your local library and check out, or request via inter library loan - William Connolly - Capitalism and Christianity American Style. It builds on Max Webers work on the early Puritan influence into economics (The Protestant Work Ethic). Connolly incorporates much of his contemporary philosophy to try and explain the bootstrap mentality, cruelty politics, and the modern religious nationalist movement. Plus the book cover is metal.
It is in the age of AI and Automation.
