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Those greedy gen-zs hoarding their wealth. (hexbear.net)

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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago

It's almost like capitalism functions better when workers are payed enough to buy things! I mean fuck Henry Ford was a frothing-at-the-mouth raving prejudiced lunatic, but he had enough practical sense to at least recognize that. This "lost" $12 billion isn't gone, it's just sitting in hedgefunds generating more digits, which they've decided is somehow more real than facilitating the next generation to buy into the hegemonic status quo.

Fuck. Damn. I mean, perhaps the most low-key aggravating stuff about communist theory is understanding enough about how capitalism works that you get aggravated when the ding dang old capitalists themselves can't even do it right.

[-] hayvan@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

It’s almost like capitalism functions better when workers are payed enough to buy things!

Capitalism concentrating money in the hands of the few is working as intended. It is intrinsicly not sustainable.

This kind of bithching at poor people is just authors sucking up to their masters.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the purpose of a system is what it does, not what its "supposed" to do.

It's just interesting how what the capitalists intend can change so drastically over a single human lifetime. The Great Depression disabused a lot of people (working class and owning class) of any notion that capitalist markets can self-correct all on their own. Lead to a bunch of ideas and policies that prioritized outcome above simplified, idealized pictures of how markets were "supposed" to work. You get the New Deal and Great Society projects that do improve conditions for (some) working people and (more importantly to those in power) make the system more robust, more shock resistant.

...and subsequently, the first World War, the Great Depression, and the second World War recede from living memory. Lived experience gets replaced with idealized simplifications and the ruling class starts ripping out all the counter-weights and safety nets that ultimately, ironically, were put there for their own long term benefit. It's a fantastic joke. And somewhat troubling to be living in.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago

At some point they are going to make it illegal for kids to stay with their parents past 18, aren't they? They won't make housing more affordable, but they will happily create a massive youth homelessness crisis so they can skim a tiny bit more rent money off the top.

[-] theoryenjoyer@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago

Arm all homeless

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago

[-] miz@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

lucy-parsons

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

I really think they're just gonna bring back workers dormitories, people will be sleeping in Amazon bunkhouses soon.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds expensive, much cheaper to just keep the shanty towns around the warehouses instead.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Those only work in socialist countries like China, where the companies pay for food etc. Imagine how horrific they'll be in the modern era with 24/7 surveillance

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

No one can afford to fucking live. We're all trapped in hell.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

No fedposting, so just imagine I wrote something violent, yet inspiring here

Probably involving lasers and dinosaurs

Ooh, and a giant robot

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Somebody could turn that into a non-fedpost image.

[-] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

how is that being lost, sounds more like they found it and kept it

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

It's the same thing as a business declaring that money they were projected to earn but didn't is a loss

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

When working for a small business tyrant I actually got to call that out in a staff meeting. It rocked. It was a hole in the wall vegqn place thst required a good reputation to stay afloat so I could talk back as much as I wanted on account of my friends on the labor board. She also used 'no ethical consumption under capitalism ' one time to justify a shitty business choice and I pointed out she is the capitalist that we are under. One time she went anarchist and said the place was a flat hierarchy except she was on top...I pointed out that is what an absolute dictatorship would be. Never trust a hippie.

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit, you literally worked for a petite-bourgeois anarchist?

Were... were the sectarian tankies right???

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

I dod t mean that literally. She was just generally woo.

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I figured but it'd be a funny bit idea, the anarchist vegan cafe owning Kulak!

"Well this is a MOSTLY non-hierarchical community, since it's just me making more money than you guys."

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

It's not far from it, she would maybe have described herself as an anarchist but she was like those Zeigeist movies from the late 2000s brained hippie type. She named one of her kids Leeloo cause her favorite movie is 5th Element. She buried her placenta under a tree after another kid was born and the tree died

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like I meet a dozen of this person at the burning man downstream thing that I go to. >.>

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Black Book of Communism but for the American financial sector.

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Capitalists the biggest hoarders around complaining about younger people hoarding because they can't afford things i-cant Like the brits say "am I a prick?" i-cant

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago

Is it hoarding if no one is able to save? Kkkapitalists are projecting as always

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's hoarding to not burn your lifeforce at both ends, to not take more gigs instead of sleeping, to not die of karoshi at age 40 thereby sparing the healthcare system (with still no house)

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

You can really see they are trying out new messaging. There was also the story about how we are all "hording" phones by... just deciding to keep the phones we have for longer.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

“Hey! Everything should be a luxury for the rich!”

“What! The poors are living with mommy and daddy? How could this be happening? Aren’t they embarrassed they’re not rich people renting out like billionaires? Normal people are rich nepo babies, right?”

They’re stupid on purpose just to piss me off.