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Gritty with the truth bomb...
(lemmy.world)
Wrong, they should CEASE to exist
Well, I don't know about your but I'd prefer a system where it wouldn't be possible for a single person to amass that many resources in the first place
Worker co-ops, social safety nets, guaranteed income and a robust, free universal healthcare option are all things we could do RIGHT NOW without hurting our precious capitalist empire at all. In the long run some businesses like the Healthcare companies will suffer and have to downsize, but it's always been absolutely astonishing to me that a company like Tesla, IBM, Boeing, Walmart or other mega-companies close plants or stores and send tens of thousands of people into joblessness and poverty nobody bats an eye.
The moment we talk about actions that might impact the insurance empires suddenly we have to all worry about the workers and all the businesses that are connected to the insurance company and so on.
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What's the most amount of resources that it should be legal to acquire?
The answer is either "None of it" or "No more than you need", depending on how based you are.
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Accumulation should be removed, there should be no individual Capital Owners trying to collect more and more and more.
Can you clarify a bit more? I have enough money where I could stop working for the next 8 or 9 months if I chose. Should I be allowed to keep this?
What about my neighbor, his house is 3x the size of my wife's and mine, and he lives alone. He could sell one of his three cars and survive for a year if he had to. I'm sure he has a savings that could last him 5 years or more. How much should he be allowed to keep? Or should he just be forced to take a vacation until he gets closer to average?
Or should the cap be more around one lifetimes worth of savings?
We are within Capitalism, so without replacing it with a better system, we cannot remove accumulation.
I am not advocating for putting a cap on accumulation in Capitalism, I am advocating for replacing the entire Capitalist system with one where accumulation is not only impossible, but unnecessary and unwanted.
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Too late for that, that's the problem.
Yeah absolutely true. Frankly I don't think we'll be able to unfuck ourselves before it's much too late from a climate viewpoint – and I'm not entirely convinced we haven't already passed the point of no return
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They should exsist, as a footnote in human history.
Nah there should be a whole chapter about oligarchs that make future people go "what the fuck". Hopefully followed by the one about how we no longer have oligarchs that makes future people go "based".
%100. No one needs that much money to live comfortably. It is a mental disorder.
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Why would I want to change your mind‽
No. Will not change your mind
They only exist because we allow it.
Why the fuck is Gritty a member of Crowder's mug club? Fucking cancelled.
(If you're not going to fully Photoshop that fascist out of the meme, use the Calvin & Hobbes version)
This one, right?
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Thought this guy looked familiar, turns out I was thinking of the Honey Monster from UK ads in the 90s.
Has gritty acknowledged this relation???
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