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      *downwards. They’re shitty people, let’s stop glorifying them, which is supported by “trickle-down economics” that went right into their hands so to them, it worked.

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    Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.

    Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked by the owning class, protected from scrutiny, and applied as their supporting mythology.

    It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away. We did it after the Enlightenment, we can do it again.

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    Isnt china mostly destroying the biosphere and failing to meet basic needs? Rural china is still cooked and people in the city are working 80hr weeks living in a tiny box.

    The western world meets the basic needs of 99+% of the population and has a lot more environmental protection.

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      I’d argue the USA and China are both Auth Cap, but coming from different directions. We need Stakeholder Socialism that focuses on aligning ownership and control of the economic firms into the hands of those directly impacted by their ecological and economic impacts. A coöp commonwealth is a good example.

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        most capitalist countries already have that built in. Its an investment fund that everyone pays into slowly throughout their life. It helps them build wealth from the success of not just their country but the world economy.

        aligning ownership and control of the economic firms into the hands of those directly impacted by their ecological and economic impacts

        Can you explain this a bit more? It seems so far out I am struggling to see how this would look.

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      “there is no world police”, said Chinese Communist Political Party, the ruling political party dictatorship of China

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    Hey, are you denying me the opportunity to work very hard every day so one day I may become a billionaire?

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      The system is built to deny you that as well, yes, as long as the current billionaires in charge don’t like you.

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        But if I lick their boots enough, they will come to like and respect me, right?

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        I was just faced with this recently. I started doing freelance work due to disability and to have the freedom to say no to nightmare clients. Welp, I encountered such a client and they threw a whole fit at basic boundaries. But it directly cost me money and potentially the relationship to the person that introduced us so guess who still loses and faces consequences? Never the rich asshole! They can just keep throwing pennies at people until someone is desperate enough to get exploited.

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    When a host is infested by multiple parasites, the parasite which extracts the most from the host before the host dies has the greatest chance of survival.

    The point is to extract as much wealth as possible so they can survive in bunkers after they’ve ruined our planet’s ability to support life our way of life as we know it.

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    I work at a DMV call center. People call me with vehicle registration or driver’s license problems and I help them out. AI is supposed to replace me so the state bought an AI voice recognition system. It can transcribe calls but cannot do anything with the information so a new part of my job is responding to what the AI interprets and then use AI canned responses to reply to the caller via email so I can train the AI.

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      Fascinating. I recently had to replace an expired license. They said I could renew it online, but that didn’t work. They said I could make an appointment online, but that didn’t work either. I called in and couldn’t get in touch with anyone real. So I finally just went to the DMV and got my license renewed in person. Mentioned all this stuff to the guy behind the counter and he’s like “yeah… they’re having a lot of problems with the computer systems…” and now after reading your comment I’m like. Oh duh. Of course. They’re using AI. No wonder none of this shit works!