this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
1473 points (96.7% liked)

Political Memes

5452 readers
3041 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly, not entirely true. When too many people have to depend on welfare money because rich people demand too much rent and pay too low wages, then everyone will get less.

But it's still rich people's fault so it's the same picture.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This.

Technically, welfare is an expense, but, it:

a)is caused by the economic situation caused by the rich; b)makes people more economically secure, thereby improving, for everyone, the salary negotiating power and ability to build new enterprises, which return money to the economy; c)may save you personally if things turn south. And they always can.

All that right-wing bullshit about economic freedom and not having to pay for losers has been disproven two centuries ago, yet people prefer to listen to talking heads that will never mention this nuance.

[–] 20hzservers@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

True when everyone is desperate it is bad for everyone who knew 🤷‍♂️.