The mental patients both own and run the asylum.

This reeks of “are there no work houses?! are there no prisons?!”

Yeah, not like there’s any urgency to the situation /s

A lawsuit isn’t the same as your loved one surviving.

They’re just a troll.

Well said, the capitalists are unrepentant bad faith actors.

Return the favor, just be clever and discreet about it so you can keep doing it.

The owner class: No one wants to roll up their sleeves to do a hard days work anymore! Shameful!

Also the owner class:

I had a work ethic, got a masters in a helping profession, just to find out it was my job as a psychologist for poor populations to prioritize getting suffering poor people back into the jobs ASAP, after providing some coping exercises and pills to dull the pain, that drove them to a breaking point or desperate crime to begin with, in the 3-6 whole sessions they were allotted, while ratting them out for confiding in me that they smoked a joint to their parole officer.

Eventually I couldn’t take part in it anymore, and certainly couldn’t pursue providing therapy to the willfully ignorant with infinite budgets that don’t even care what their gluttinous lifestyle demands inflict below them.

Fuck no.

The answer to capitalists demanding more desperate slaves isn’t to provide them more desperate slaves.

It’s the opposite. For all the power the global oligarchs have over all of us, it’s one of the few things they’d have a great deal of difficulty forcing at gunpoint, as that just makes a stronger case for a mercy coat hanger abortion (since they’ll be outlawed everywhere sooner or later to feed the needs of the glorious capital markets) later on.

Dont forget, before the attempted coup, the government tried extend the work week from an already draconian 50 to 70 hours.

Making the young pay for the sins of the old and their greed/growth/metastasis disease. It’s sickening. It’s the opposite of planting trees whose shade you’ll never sit in. It’s malice towards any future because your time is up and want the world to pay for your bitterness.

It’s what global capitalism has lowered our species to. “have kids you can’t afford to take care of me in old age for a subsistence wage, burn up your lives in my honor, me me me!”

As someone forced to take care of an abusive parent until they grew too weak to physically hurt me over the course of my childhood and teens, I very much intend to put a gun in my mouth before I’d let my eventual, inevitable decline become any younger person’s problem, whether my own child or not. I think anything else is the height of selfishness.

Fair enough, I concede the point when others are in the car.

In the event of a crash, a soft gooey human is probably the least likely object that flies out of that car to seriously injure someone else, and if that gooey human hits anything the car is made of first, the gooey human loses and is just further bruised against things harder than a human.

Can you point me to a single instance of someone being injured or died because the corpse of another human, and not hard metal, plastic, or glass was launched out of the vehicle and managed to hit them?

Because that seems like a cartoonish outcome of a crash that’s high speed enough to do so. Like one in a billion, about as likely as being next to a car crash and being killed by the shrapnel of the used gum that was under the seat.

Honestly, they are compared a lot, and while seat belts should be encouraged, I don’t think they should be mandated for adults.

Unlike masks, you’re only going to hurt yourself.

Then again I strongly believe in the right of any adult to end their own life, even if they’re physically healthy, or it’s not their life.

If I start a company and my company gets valued at over 100 mio dollars what should I do? Sell parts of my company?

Absolutely. You won. You want to be pitied because you have enough to live like a modern pharoah for several lifetimes?

Whats wrong with forcing organizations with such an economic footprint to be owned by many members of society? That sounds healthy. That’s just the logical next step of antitrust, no one person should own so much they have the power to make other citizen’s lives harder.

Other people live in this country and on this planet. If someone wants to keep their business all to themselves, give a lot of charity instead of growing operations and keep your net worth at 90 million, everyone wins and your community will love you.

If these people truly want to flex their ego and build an infinite empire without any temperance or restraint, there’s plenty of uninhabited islands where they can do so. They don’t want to though, they want to exploit innumerable other people and use infrastructure they don’t want to pay back into to build their infinite sums. Then hilariously claim they could have done it alone on the moon themselves with a paperclip by their bootstraps.

Our economy should reward Good, Proscial business people and business practices, and we don’t. We reward sociopath hoarders. A good business person would have a nice car and home, but pump most of their profits back into their community, not hoard it like a dragon and influence politicians to lower their taxes to increase their hoards. This used to happen more. When pre Reagan tax slashes on speculative investment, more businesses did instead take those funds and rebuild a courthouse or buy a High school a new gym. They got their name on a building and thank the society that facilitated their success.

Our economy should be reward to elevate the George Baileys and punish the Mister Potters, if we want a society and not this cesspool of desperation and greed without limit.

You think it’s wrong to split YOUR 100 million dollar company up, I ask why you want an infinite sized company taking up an entire economic sector, and what it is you want to do with 200 million dollars that you can’t do with 100. I think something of whatever scale you’re working on ought to have other voices brought in because again, other people live here and public good > your ego feelings.

It’s not just about different systems. It’s about priorities.

The Nordic model keeps capitalism heavily, heavily straightjacked, to power the wellbeing of society.

Taxes aren’t largely resented, because everyone is educated to understand that when you succeed, the society you’re a part of succeeds. No one fears going to a doctor, higher education is based on academic merit because everyone benefits from an educated populace. When you succeed, you are taxed to a degree that would make our capitalists cry. Yet they are the happiest people’s in the world. And if that isn’t the goal of any society, they’re doing it wrong. We don’t prioritize that at all, only how high our most effective sociopaths can fly.

Here, the tail has been wagging the dog for a long time, the false promise of being “free” to attain society warping levels of wealth has toxified our culture into forgeting that freedom devoid of responsibility is a rampage. Meanwhile everyone else is free to die in the gutter alone for the crime of not making them enough money.

Letting people gain enough wealth to warp society beyond their single vote, and more, not punishing trying to infect our politics with life imprisonment, has destroyed our democracy, it’s all for show. You pick a major party, and I’ll show you a party that’s been bought and paid for by the same people, to the point they’ve made it all perfectly legal since Reagan and especially since Citizens United.

Capitalism belongs in making optional widgets for a reasonable profit it has no place in sectors people need to survive. Those should be socialized, because in those sectors stability is more important than economic growth/metastasis.

If it isn’t enough motivation to have a peak of maybe 2 really big homes and 1 really big boat, then I question that person’s motivations and recognition that they are a member of a society and not society’s owner.

No one should have more unelected, unaccountable power over society than their single vote allows. No one. Capital beyond material needs and desires is power.

TLDR start with making attempting to bribe an elected official the highest of capital crimes, life no parole as they’re actively attempting to bend all of society to their desires, only public funds for campaigns, continue by rewarding labor with far lower taxation than speculative, insider info laden gambling that should be taxed astronomically as the vice it is, and then have a maximum wealth tax at let’s say a 100 million dollars where they’re declared the winner, given a cake, and congratulations on all additional wealth going into improving the roads and commons of the society that facilitated their accumulation of such astronomical wealth to begin with.

If someone like Elon wants a kingdom, let him fly to Mars and make one.

Herp derp “job creators exercising the noblest of impulses: rational self-interest”

The greatest cultural propaganda the owners achieved through their for profit media and captured education, particularly economics, that enabled all others was that greed/avarice was not the personal failing, character deficit, and destructive force that it is, but instead the highest of virtue.

Its not. The Gordon Geckos, Mr. Potters, and Ebenezer Scrooges in fiction were cautionary tales, villains. Yet they’ve convinced us that that is what we should either be or worship.

“So long as I’m free to exploit you into subsistence, you’re free to die in the gutter when you’re too broken to produce value for me!”

-The capitalists destroying us and the habitability of the world for any future humans, solely to run up their ego scores.