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[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not true! You can also get exploited WHILE dying on the street! Or just exploit others. That are like 4 options!

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's an odd moment in Attack of the Clones. Anakin and his mother are "slaves." But they live in a multi-room dwelling all by themselves and Anakin has enough free time and resources to work on both a pod racer and a DIY protocol Droid.

My theory is this: in Star Wars you are either self-employed (like Boba Fett or Max Rebo), part of a military or quasi military organization, a business owner (like Dexter Jettster), or... you are a "slave."

Their definition of "slave" ranges anywhere from literal chattel slavery all the way up to anybody who is employed for wages, the alternative to which is dying in the street. Their language just reflects the raw reality that it's only a matter of degree that separates chattel slavery from wage slavery.

[-] reddifuge@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

3rd choice is kill the rich.

[-] ililililili@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

That's just dying in prison with extra steps (deserved).

[-] reddifuge@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nah, you just have to do it at scale. Ask the French, not pussy Americans.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 9 points 3 days ago

Hey now, you're also free to exploit others. And to really win capitalism, just become the guy that gets to decide if someone else becomes homeless aka a landlord.

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

And if you exploit others well enough, you can be a person who just owns homes that no-one lives in, as investments.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

3rd option guillotine and Vive la révolution

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

all westerners; especially americans; are too brainwashed to ever consider moving beyond the democrat/republican options.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ah, the American FREEDOM (TM)

[-] fellagha@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Liberals will always find excuses to bootlick the very oligarchs which provide them this "freedom" (or "entrepreneurs", the label capitalism deifies them under)

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago
[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
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