• xerazal@lemmy.zip
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    This is what neoliberalism does. It privatizes everything, including the individual. Everyone is a product. Everyone has a “brand”.

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        Why’s everything gotta be about money? Good things happen without it. Rain falls, feeds a fruit tree, makes a fruit, I eat it, poop out the seeds, new fruit tree grows. Money doesn’t fall from trees, but I can’t eat money.

        The whole system is poorly prioritized to protect people’s things instead of people. Even then it does a poor job and only protects the things that belong to those with the most things. It’s not even about those people, just their wealth, because if somebody else got their wealth no one would care about them anymore.

        I don’t care about communists or capitalists or any ists you can name. To hell with Mao and Thatcher and Lenin and Reagan and Trump and Biden. Fuck em. My question is why can we always find money for war, and for rich people to do stupid shit, but never enough for health care, or food for hungry children, or anything like that. Fuck anybody okay with hungry babies.

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          Eating and apple and pooping out the seeds might grow new trees, but none of those trees are likely to make apples like you ate.

          Money is a convenient way to trade your work or skills for someone else’s. Like the guy who grafts apple tree scions together to make the apples that taste good grow in their orchard.

          Now when the guy who knows how to grow hood apple trees decides he doesn’t want to compete against anybody else’s apples and squashes them, we have problems, and need rules to keep that from happening.

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            I like how you equated money as a goal to money as a tool and that because the latter is a good idea then the first one must also be a good idea.

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            I found this list of true-to-seed fruits and vegetables I thought you might find interesting. I found it on The Spruce.

            Certain heirloom apples, such as Antonovka

            Polyembryonic mango seeds

            Lemon

            Lime

            Orange

            Peach

            Papaya

            Apricot

            Nectarine

            Heirloom tomatoes

            There are tons of other heirloom vegetables, I don’t know why they only mentioned tomatoes on their list but yeah.

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      Right liberalism is about individual rights, economic freedom and freedom in general. Left-wing countries will give big tech more power cause they’ll have advantages over other companies and groups cause they have the money to pay for unnecessary laws that the left likes and they’ll be friends with the government. In countries even more on the left the problem will be the same but added that you won’t have any economic freedom and individual rights, small groups and companies will most likely not exist or die in the minute they’re created and you won’t be able to support them cause you basically doesn’t own your own money and the money will he spent on useless taxes that you supported. Your ideas give big tech power, you’re not the resistance but the perpetrator. Big techs have grown more and more as the world has become more leftist and you insist in not noticing the base of your mentality is helping big tech.

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        Wow man, bet you think it’s the LGBTs fault too and that the EU is some leftist place with less freedom than the US.

        Travel a bit, helps heaps for people like you, I mean if your freedom includes stuff like holidays…

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          Travel a bit, helps heaps for people like you, I mean if your freedom includes stuff like holidays…

          ouch, right in the freedom 😁

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        Right wing countries do this. What do you think South Korea is? “Economic freedom,” is freedom commensurate with economic power, which means freedom for people with money, and “personal responsibility” for people without. The opposite of government regulation of business is corporate domination of government. You’re conflating these opposites to falsely align organized labor with “big business.” The entire right-libertarian political project is a smokescreen for the Kochs and their economic class to baffle morons into thinking the policies they want benefit the little guy.