Socialism @lemmy.ml aldalire @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 yr. ago

Exploitation, exploitation everywhere

Image: the american dream is to escape exploitation by becoming the exploiter

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But I'm different. I'll be the benevolent exploiter and all my employees will be happy and we'll have parties in the break room all the time.
- What's better than pizza parties to make your employees feel not exploited?
  
  oh, i know this one! It's two pizza parties!
  
  "Hope you're all enjoying your pizza there, guys, it just shows how much fun this company is to work for. But time's a wastin'. Rest assured there will be more company-sanctioned fun soon"
Funny how the American dream and the Ferengi dream are the same exact thing...
- I'm starting to think the Ferengi were some kind of, like, caricature to make a statement about unbridled capitalism... naw it's just sci fi not some kind of social commentary hahaha
  
  Political commentary? In my star trek???
without education, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
"Identifying with the aggressor" is one of those phrases that wedges into your brain and stays put.
I've been personally thinking about ways I could use my future earnings and financial status to give back in addition to advocacy/volunteer work and giving to mutual aid.

I don't have the legal or real estate knowledge to know how to actually make this happen, but I think there is space for a model where people could use their ability to get a mortgage to build/buy multi-family housing and lease-to-own it at-cost to a housing co-op in a type of Ulysses Pact that will create below-market-rate housing.

I envision some kind of standard contract for something like this akin to open source licenses or most housing rental agreements, so that it's easier for more people to emulate a similar setup.
The American dream is also to escape America.
when education is not liberating the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
You just summed up every cryptobro, including self described "leftist" cryptobros, that claim that the way to beat the casino is by going to the new casino instead.
- "leftist" cryptobros
  
  I haven't seen a more obvious oxymoron...
  
  Are they that deluded, or is it all for the public?
  
  Theoretically, cryptocurrency could avoid making anyone rich, by deliberately inflating a medium of exchange. You couldn't profit by having a lot of it. It would become worthless while you watch. The incentive is to get it out of your hands as quickly as possible, by trading it for something more useful or durable, like a prawn sandwich.
  
  This is what I expected when Bitcoin was completely new. Like, 'hey I could mine this on my laptop' kinds of new. (Never did.) What I thought everyone saw was an alternative to PayPal - a way to toss petty cash across the internet. Mostly for legal stuff that credit card companies think is icky and credit card users don't necessarily want on-the-record. This view of the technology is compatible with labor theory of value and opposition to hierarchy and whatnot. It's a commodity you can e-mail.
  
  But all extant crypto tech seems to be magic internet money scams. Some don't know they're scams. They don't understand how Bitcoin's constant deflation is a failure case. It was intended as a crypto... currency. You should be able to spend it on stuff. Instead it's become an unregulated speculation boom with both de-facto gambling and outright money laundering both disguised as investment. Twitch Plays Tulip Mania. So yeah, anyone celebrating how it works at present is either not a leftist or not paying attention.
  
  Could be both. I can reasonably believe that some cryptobro can get high enough on their own gambling addiction that they believe they'll, direct quoting one I saw a few days ago, "revolutionize the world" with their new casino tokens and "bring power back to the people."

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