• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    No. No. They’re right. When even Forbes reports that nearly 30% of people can’t afford their normal expenses and a further 40% living paycheck to paycheck, it’s a systemic issue. Payroll.org’s numbers from 2023 put the paycheck to paycheck at 78%.

    Sure some of those are poor spending habits but, to brush it off as that is wishful thinking. Could blame it on neoliberalism but, people have been coerced into making the wealthy even more money in order to survive since long before that. Not having a home is illegal. Every bit of land on the plant is considered owned, whether occupied or not, so, there is no option to opt-out and refuse to participate while alive and free.

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        6 months ago

        What is the point of your question? It’s based on a completely useless, asinine observation. I guess what I’m asking is, are you trying to start shit or are you profoundly dim?

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          6 months ago

          Im just pissed off at all this high minded gobshite about how capitalism is the source of all evil and immediately jumping into this fantasy of a perfect anrchism without any conceptualization of how to get from A to B. Not to mention that my “tankie” comment was sarcastic satire of lemmy comment sections whenever captialism is mentioned.