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Rightists: "Socialism is when the poors get any manner of social benefit."
Never mind that the poors are the primary source of the funds for said benefit. We live in a system where the rich control a system that allows them to plunder from the poor and funnel those funds to themselves.
Capitalism is theft, and theft is capitalism. Capitalism is good.
But pooling our collective resources for the general benefit of all us... that's bad. That's socialism.
How DARE the plebes be allowed to spend their money on themselves when some multimillionaires that destroyed their billion dollar businesses need a bigger yacht and a fourth European vacation home!?
🎶 The global network of capital essentially functions To separate the worker from the means of production! 🎶
https://youtu.be/oDQXFNWuZj8?si=zBHjeAQ_TK88HCIj (stay tuned for the second half)
But the workers literally control the means of production. We could decide not to turn on the machines until those with the capital give us more of it. That's called a strike. There's a couple in the U.S. that appear to be going well. I'm hopeful that other executives will figure out that they must help the workers or that more strikes occur to help them learn that lesson.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-railroad-strike-2022-12-02/
Lets see how long we the peasants are permitted to use that privilege, now that the people are emboldened to utilize it again. If history is any guide, the government step in to kneecap them if they come to meaningfully effect shareholder profit.
Oh this is so unfair. We have had an expansion of labor rights this year, after the rail strike was blocked. Also the rail strike did have some wins despote being blocked.
I mean you can make it illegal, but the more people realize they have no incentive to work themselves ragged for next to nothing, the angrier they get and fight back. That’s what we’re seeing now with the highest level of union support in decades.
It’s just my opinion, but I think the damn is officially broken in the US now that we’ve had so many major strikes. I don’t think you can really turn things back to how they were. Not immediately.
Unfortunately things will only escalate if there isn’t some compromise here. The greedy will continue to fight it. However I’m sure many realize that if workers’ don’t see some improvements in our current environment, it will require a much more openly violent state than we currently have to keep workers in line.
I’m not sure the majority of those in government are willing move towards that yet as it’s inherently unstable. Hopefully they’ll be smart about it.
Only a matter of time before striking becomes illegal. Nothing is going to happen unless a general strike happens among all industries.
How exactly do you force people to work? I mean you could make striking Illegal and force me into work but I'm not going to. I'll just fuck everything up...
The same way Texas did its abortion bounty scheme or Florida made it ok to run protestors over. Empower the chuds to enact violence, maybe lock one or two up for going too far and call it a day, while nothing is actually done to stop the violence.
What do you think for-profit prisons and state penitentiary are for? Look up the exemptions from the slavery amendment.