[meh99]

Millions see sky wizards, should I?

I get the difference. It doesn’t absolve our culture of ignoring it’s deficiencies. But look what happens at a university in 2008 when students simply sit on the ground.

Is there a difference? Or have we just accepted our fate?

I don’t think I’m the one that needs to take tour advice.

[mensetmanusman]

There might be a difference between belief in sky wizards and belief in taxation in capitalism being as authoritarian…

[meh99]

I was not speaking to taxation. I’m speaking to private influence on wages, regressive taxation, privilege for the financial elite, the real health issues and costs of extreme inequality as being authoritarian.

Relativity; being poor isn’t a character flaw. Lack of experience means not knowing what one should be fighting for.

Relativity is a scientific fact yet in the free world we enable class-based suffering. Do we throw them in a gulag?

No, we let them rot in the open in tents under bridges, and complain about it. We’re far more civilized.

Even for engineers buying power is incredibly diminished by inflation to prop up Bloomberg’s and grandpa’s property portfolio he was able to afford starting in 1970.

Normalized agency in deference to political nostalgia not what communities need isn’t constrained to China and has real consequences on lives. Is it jackboots with machine guns? No. But the effects are just as measurable.