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Liberalism n a nutshell (lemmy.ml)
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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 60 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The best paying jobs are increasingly removed from any real form of value creation. Western Markets value deception, financialization, and asset inflation far more than actual labor, accurate accounting, and efficient administration. The professional test-writer makes more than the teacher. The real estate agent makes more than the construction worker. The insurance actuary makes more than the physician. The salesman makes more than the factory worker.

Follow this business logic to its ultimate conclusion and everything becomes an MLM.

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Follow this business logic to its ultimate conclusion and everything becomes an MLM.

and thats how you create real value

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Actually, it's M C M' 🥁

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is not MLM, it is a bunch of people jerking each other off in hopes that they too can become bourgeoisie.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't recognize the difference.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

MLM is a nefarious scheme to exploit surplus monetary value of other people's relationships. Jerking clubs are egotistical weak attempts at false class identification.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

order-of-lenin great post

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which is of course exactly what they do think.

There are those in society who enjoy that others are poor. They enjoy it because it means by contrast they are rich and successful, even if they are nothing compared to the 1%

The idea that people working in 'mundane' jobs could afford to live and enjoy themselves is an affront to their dignity.

There's a social ladder. Everyone above is God to be worshipped, and everyone below them is trash who deserves to get pushed down.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They also have a direct material interest, because higher wages for workers would result in capitalists raising prices for everyone, so they would themselves become poorer, so they support the existence of the underclass to protect their own relative wellbeing.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not disagreeing that that's what would happen, because the people at the top won't want to make less money but it's so disappointing.

Try to increase the buying power of those at the bottom and the greed at the top means that everyone below loses buying power.

[–] LudwigvanBeethoven@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's not liberalism, that's being a pretentious fuck

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Being a pretentious fuck where the nature of that is rooted in liberal ideology.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah. There's no freedom until there's freedom from work

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Solving problems at the level of individual and pretending that society doesn't exist are core tenets of modern liberalism.