I don't fit into this world, or this way of living.
The mundane BS of going to work for someone else doing something I don't even want to be doing, just so I can get digital numbers put into my damn back account so that I can give those numbers to OTHER people just for the privilege of doing it all over again.
Sometimes I think this entire system and way of existance needs to burned, destroyed and buried and forgotten.
@Wetrix it’s called capitalism and it’s fantastic for crushing the spirit and independence out of human beings. It’s designed and run for the capital owning 1%. Socialism is the answer.
@CyberSocialist @Wetrix Socialism is an utopia in the best case, in reality it's a vague concept that is defined by everyone differently. In the worst case it's a totalitarian nightmare as in USSR and economic collapse. So socialism is no answer and never was - constant change, reforms, dialogue are the only answers that ever worked.
@kravietz @CyberSocialist to be fair, even that doesn't work.
There's never been a long term successful civilization and we're quickly finding out that capitalism is a complete failure.
These systems are not inherently bad, but anything that humans are involved in becomes corrupt and broken by our very nature.
@Wetrix @CyberSocialist It depends what you take for "long term". Communism longest survived ~70 years and collapsed indebted to Western countries. Capitalism in Europe and US probably 10x that and over that period, and globally people experienced crowing standards of living, health and life expectancy. This is an nicely visualised on https://www.gapminder.org/tools/ based on actual data.
@CyberSocialist @Wetrix > Well done capitalism
And non-capitalist countries were running their industry on... what exactly? USSR, Venezuela, North Korea? On pranic energy?
@kravietz @Wetrix that’s not the point. Capitalism isn’t magic. It’s not the answer to all problems, in fact it causes many new issues that need resolving. It is however highly historically contingent, not ‘neutral’ in its force to marketise everything and when you consider that most of the 1% actually live a life more governed by this “utopian” socialist ideology
@kravietz @Wetrix (perfect healthcare, no need to work to live, unprecedented access to travel, are the greatest consumers of natural resources - essentially unlimited consumption constrained by financial limits- and the greatest polluters per capita , set their own remunerations , nearly immune from political restrictions placed upon everyone else, greater access to justice through highly paid Council) you realise everyone would want this for themselves, if only they could get it.
@CyberSocialist What you described also perfectly matches the description of "nomenclature" in Soviet and other non-capitalist countries.
Homo sapiens unfortunately has this tendency to create privileged castes.
It's a pathology just as well in capitalist and socialist system, but it's buried in human nature.
What prevents it is institutions such as independent media and judiciary, law enforcement and public transparency.
Cc @Wetrix
@kravietz I think it's more simply the powerful preying on the weak.
That is definitely human nature.