w00tabaga

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wouldn’t you like to know weatherboy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wouldn’t you like to know weatherboy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Define “comfortable”

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Third kind of makes the first one pointless. Unless that is, you consider doing the Polka by yourself masturbation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What if I put my tastebuds in someone else’s anus?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who cares? Without trucks moving goods, we literally have nothing and society as we know it doesn’t exist.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I almost left Lemmy because of the crap I always had in my feed.

Then I realized all the bottom of the barrel content and takes were all from the hexbear instance. I started blocking any community from that server. It’s like a whole new world

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And on the flip side a CEO can improve and expand many people’s careers and therefore wealth.

A dictatorship like Mao Zedong, Mussolini, Hitler, etc can flow all the wealth and power to themselves, oppressing the people under them.

The point it: You can’t talk about best case scenario of one and not the other. Usually, as it’s human nature, both are going to sequester wealth and power for themselves over the people under them, but a bad dictatorship is leagues worse than a bad company/CEO.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I’m not defending it? I mean, I pointed out it’s issues and how the elites it strives to eliminate it has created. They won, they beat that system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ehhh, I’d argue the exact opposite. The people at the top hoarding so much wealth are arguably the worst capitalists. Capitalism demands cash flow, and the more the better. Few people hoarding and controlling so much of it is breaking it.

I always love to point to healthcare. Between my portion and my employer my health insurance is over $15000 for my family. Yet I have a $5000 deductible still. Imagine if all that money that my employer is paying me I was actually getting. Then apply that to every family. But instead, a few companies make all the money off that. The problem is healthcare shouldn’t be a business, but a public service just like police, firefighters, roads, etc. In an emergency I’m not going to shop hospitals, and in non emergency I don’t have a choice anyway, my insurance company decides that.

It’s the most broken system and everyone at the top is making too much money from it that it will never change until it gets so bad for the middle class it somehow starts bringing them down

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Wage increases are getting blown out of the water by inflation and cost of living. Everyone is really starting to feel that pinch. So naturally now is when the feds decide to unfreeze school loans. Really telling of how out of touch our government is

 

I took part in the Reddit blackout a month ago, and accessed Reddit through Apollo. After the blackout I looked at Reddit a handful of times and then let my association with Reddit die with Apollo.

I haven’t been there since, but now I feel as though I should have deleted my account of 7 years, that way everything I ever contributed will be gone.

However, to accomplish this as you all know I should delete all my posts first and edit all comments. I was wondering what people used to do this. I want everything to read “Edit: moved to Lemmy”.

I’m sure others migrating here have the same question. Thanks.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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