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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That bottom left dialogue sounds too close to Lrrr - ruler of omicron persei 8!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The larger class is saving that for sweeps

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Something tells me the aliens would be smart enough to ask questions like, "How do the factories get here to begin with?"

Even though I lean heavily toward socialism and believe an open source society is our future, we've got to move beyond memes and kindergarten oversimplifications of capitalism. Every industry and business empire ultimately starts with clever individuals working very hard on ideas that turn out to be better in some way than what's already around, so they can grow and grow to become giant corporations. Over the course of time a lot of people get involved who don't work any harder than a normal person but are just paid a lot more, and others simply inherit the money. Those are really ones everybody gets upset at,. The innovators and entrepreneurs deserve recognition and reward, we just have to find a way to do that without creating oligarchs and vast blocks of wealth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

Every industry and business empire ultimately starts with clever individuals working very hard on ideas

That is the flowery idealist narrative that the capitalist class relentlessly promotes, to the point that you’re now promoting it for them, but in fact each one starts with capital.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago

Capitalism didn't emerge from the primordial ooze where everyone was equal and no one owned anything. This is silly.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago

I love the reference to Futurama.

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?

However, yes. Capitalism is fucked up that rewards those with the most resources.

[–] humanspiral 16 points 12 hours ago

It's far worse than this:

See how these supply and demand lines intersect over here? Well we get to shift the supply a little lower, sell for higher price, and get to extort workers harder, so that they feel lucky to have a job at all.

The reason that the large class doesn't eat us, is that we have enough profits to control media and politicians to brainwash and force them not to eat us, and so when we say "free market", we're just lying to create a corrupt market and a corrupt society which we get to control absolutely.

--Ahhh says the alien.

Do you have any intrinsic concerns about being evil? Or does the only thing that matters is that the slaves accept your evil and their oppression?

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