• dhork@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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    19 days ago

    That reminds me, I should rewatch the British TV series Utopia? It’s good, though gratuitously, graphically violent. The US remake compares poorly.

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      18 days ago

      Yeah and that rich guy is me, the world is my backyard (not yours) and therefore my playground. I will lick the boot and eventually I will become the boot. While everyone else toils for my security I gaze upon my barren, empty, transplanted grass yard and scoff at the mention of people drinking the water I spread over my hollow fortress.

      Socialism? Best I can do is “free market” slavery, my forced conscript child army will defeat the Walmart Raytheon child slave army any day now, then you’ll see!

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      19 days ago

      The one they advertise as the heart of the bill that makes all the other listed stuff there a reality. Sick days, grievance, maternity, and vacation days all go against your 7 days per 400 days.

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    18 days ago

    I always thought that a post scarcity anarchist, libertarian or communist utopia would basically converge into one. Most notably, the absence of liberals.

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    18 days ago

    Even in this Left-Wing utopia, due to the nature of humans, they would find someone who does not “deserve” to be a part of it.

    There must always be a least deserving person. There must always be a way to be better than others.

    Only some very extreme CRISPR engineering not possible today would fix that.