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  • Abundance comes from advancement of tech and tools, not just from labour.

    If only the “40 hours a week” people deserve to live outside poverty then this exclude many other people who are without a doubt productive for society and even capital.

    Many scholars never got money from their contributions, they didn’t even get recognition within their life. They for sure contributed positively to the society. Yet their works was not included in “40 hrs work week”.

    Housewives also provide labour without which the society can not function, they are also within this categories.

    Open source devs also don’t get paid for their work. Yet their hobby does in fact lead to productivity.

    By restricting our definition to “40 hrs work week”, we overlook many of these segments.


  • Consider an example of a women, who does not work but raises childern and perform other chores to support her husband.

    She is quite important in contribution to the society, but when we talk just about working people, we overlook her.

    And I am sure there are many such people who are critical for the function of the society, but do not “make money” (i,e wage labor nor even owning capital for that matter)

    This is why, IMO, this distinction of “people who work” is counter productive. Everyone should be able to live without poverty.




  • Well, my comment was a classic “yo momma” joke. You asking for “what about hamas?” Is a very common fascist deflection. So if you talk like a fascist, don’t be mad to be treated as such.

    Next, armed struggle against an oppressive colonizing regime is protected under international law. And hamas is THE GOVERNMENT there that means even a government employed janitor as treated as a “terrorist”. In fact IOF uses this exact same rhetoric to kill civilian in gaza.

    As a popular mainstream icon, radiohead has power that we everyday individuals don’t. And when you talk like “oh hamas and IDF same same” that makes you either complicit at best or genocide apologist at worst.











  • Im a non-US non-Voter. But I feel the whole “every vote not for harris is a vote for trump” is quite frankly bullshit. People raising concern for palestinian are not trolling, or russian bots or selfish. You just disagree with them and are resorting to name calling.

    Here are some facts:

    A) early polls show that in swing states, votes for jill stein hurt trump more than harris.

    B) if a third party gets more than 5%, this unlocks federal funding for the next election.

    C) voting third party shows the actual voter sentiment of tiredness with the two main candidates. It incentivises other politicians to either form more parties or for the main parties to have candidates that represent the population better.

    If everyone just votes for trump or harris, in 4 years you guys will be standing in the same place as now or 2016. It was the exact same rhetoric in 2016 “lesser of two evils”. Obviously something needs to be changed.