Choosing between shit and a shit sandwich, it's fine to point out one has carbs but it's dishonest to pretend you're excited to eat a shit sandwich
leftytighty
joined 2 months ago
I'm a capitalist and this thread is giving me a hard-on
Don't question The Economy. There is no better way to make decisions about wealth allocation. This is the most efficient and fair way. Repeat after me.
My understanding is that it's more about where people get their wealth and income. Working class primarily gets it from labour. Middle class has a mix of capital and labour income. And upper class / capitalists get it mostly from capital.
Degrees and jobs align with those but don't define them, as far as I understand it.
Then again in my mind the only distinction worth a damn is "contributor" and "parasite" and so we're all working class and we should see ourselves as aligned against the individuals and families who have enough wealth that generations of them will never need to work a day in their lives.
We won't starve our old people, there's plenty of wealth to go around, it's just that a tiny portion of the population has stolen it all. Maybe even the average person will have to make some sacrifices if birth rates don't stay at a certain level but our lifestyles are hugely inflated compared to even 50 years ago.
We can live sustainable lives with a reducing population, our productivity per capita is higher than it's ever been, we're all just seeing so little of it.
Instead of Musks and Bezos, instead of all of our creative minds working in advertising and finance, instead of 10 different streaming services, we can have a good quality of life for everyone.
Our economy being efficient is the biggest lie. The economy is only profitable, and it only has good outcomes when those outcomes are aligned with profit. It's time for a new economy that serves the people
Famously ancient historians never embellished anything especially when it comes to a story with national significance
Just like when I was a kid using Wikipedia for research when it wasn't acceptable, the expectation should be that you use it to understand the material and then follow it to the source material to read that or at least find a relevant quote that lets you repeat that wikipedia said in your own words with attribution.
Copying wiki, or copying the output of an LLM, are both similarly academically fraudulent. LLMs are just more likely to also be wrong.
Granted, I just see some grey area. Home: justified. Neighborhood? City? Country? Hard to say.
I think that's a fair perspective and one I generally agree with. But I also see a compelling argument for "self defense." Children are victims of war, maybe they need to be able to defend themselves in times of war at home.
It's one thing to use child soldiers as cannon fodder or in wars of aggression, but maybe another when they're defending their homes and themselves. I'm not sure
If your perspective on both is consistent, more power to you, but putting that out there for others who may judge things differently in that case.
Underage Western men fought in the world wars
May it watch over us, amen