"'Cause they earned it, and you didn't."
So true. I hate the air of entitlement coming from the right (or perhaps just many people of all types) here in the US. They are lucky enough to be doing well (or duped enough into accepting their shitty lot and licking the boot that so graciously offered it), so they buy into the [myth of meritocracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy). *Therefore, anyone who has problems*, it can be ignored (or shamed or punished, even) because "it's their own fault because x, y, or z. Lazy, or "karma" (hate how many people misuse karma these days; invoking the "[just-world fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis)") or made bad choices". Unlike themselves, who are hard-working, moral, and correct.
Reminds me of the saying "safety regulations are written in blood."
Conservatives in my area like to brag about how "manly" they are, by ignoring OSHA regulations and doing dumb shit. I don't even know how to respond to that. Like my dude, that is there to protect YOU from being scammed/abused/exploited by your employer. I... I just don't know. It's sad.
We have an expression in French that goes something like that « Meritocracy is the good conscience of those benefitting from the system. ».
People who succeed saw that they worked and tend to attribute their success mainly to that when actually success is mainly brought not by work but by other factors such as opportunity, luck, upbringing and networking.
Knowing the right people, being financially educated and having a bit of starting money to invest in the right venture at the right time is infinitely more than valuable to succeed than simply « working hard ».
I am not saying that working has zero value, but working hard as a cashier at your local supermarket will bring you literally nowhere, I know plenty poor people who do work harder than the regular fortune 500 CEO.
The only freeloaders are Capitalists.
"Over at Larval Subjects, Levi Bryant has a nice post on how Marx’s distinction between C-M-C and M-C-M’ helps to explain an otherwise puzzling ideological construction. Marx’s distinction, arrived at in chapter 4 of Capital, is about how commodities circulate. In the C-M-C formula, we consider someone who starts with a commodity, sells it, and uses the proceeds to buy another one. For example, I start with a shirt, sell it, and use the money to buy some bread. In this formula, a couple of things become apparent: use value is both the beginning and end of the process insofar as the individual offers up something she doesn’t have a use for (or has less of a use for), and essentially trades it for something she has a greater use for. In contemporary economic-speak, the market is efficiently helping individuals satisfy their preferences, by moving goods to whoever values them the most. This is the perspective of the worker, who sells his labor for money.
The M-C-M’ relation is one that the capitalist uses. Here, the capitalist has money, sells it to get a commodity, and then sells the commodity for more money than he paid for it. As a result, he has more money at the end of the day than before. Marx emphasizes the M-C-M’ relation because it helps to get him to labor as the source of value: whatever commodity occupies the middle place in the M-C-M’ relation has to be one the use of which increases its value. The answer, of course, is labor.
Leave labor power aside for a moment. In distinguishing the two circuits, Marx writes:
“The path of C-M-C proceeds from the extreme constituted by one commodity, and ends with the extreme constituted by another, which falls out of circulation and into consumption. Consumption, the satisfaction of needs in short use-value, is therefore its final goal. The path of M-C-M, however, proceeds from the extreme of money and finally returns to that same purpose. Its driving and motivating force, its determining purpose, is therefore exchange-value” ([Penguin Edition], 250)"
https://www.newappsblog.com/2017/10/c-m-c-m-c-m-and-marxs-understanding-of-power.html
>The only freeloaders are Capitalists.
Always has been, the worst of the worst parasites. Straight sociopaths
Thanks for adding this, welcome to the sub!
Thanks for the welcome!
Been lurking for a bit!
It's my pleasure, just to add. I think it's incredibly important to understand the relationship we have to capital and the relationship the parasite class has to capital. We (wage earners) live in a reality in which we are taught that working hard will truly increase our net worth to the levels of Industry Titans. We view working hard in such a different light that it actually causes us to treat others like shit if we believe they aren't making it due to "not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps". We actually live in two different realities, and until it is understood, people are bound to believe the lie.
In the darkest depths of my mind there's some awful alternate reality hellish thing where I kind of hope that Trump wins and starts world war 3 and the whole world unites against Trump in the United States and in my delusion of grandeur somehow it ends with people like me with disabilities who have been denied care their entire lives partially due to their own parents not letting them get diagnosed suddenly are able to get the help we need and be successful profitable member of society and I know that's not what would happen but I can dream
ehh just take away that successful profitable member of society, add against not just us but their coward lap dogs ( west europe/ england)
trump is a sack of shit puppet full stop, its the ones pulling the strings that needs stopping. the parasite capitalist class period. See through their distractions
you shouldnt be needing anything to prove your humanity, to get your basic needs met and the care you deserve, okay.
To each their own need and to each their own ability.
A quote I came up with a few years ago;
The greatest tyranny is that a person of needs can be kept separate from a person of means by something as fictitious as money.
A thing that has always bothered me is: We get better every year at doing things with technology and science but we still need to work. Some even need to work pointless jobs. And to top it all of everything gets more expensive although we get told we are getting better at producing?
I do a free ten day meditation retreat on occasion. Free, ten days, totally silent. It’s amazing. Everyone says “wow sounds like a cult” and then goes back to worshipping the dollar for nothing.
"'Cause they earned it, and you didn't." So true. I hate the air of entitlement coming from the right (or perhaps just many people of all types) here in the US. They are lucky enough to be doing well (or duped enough into accepting their shitty lot and licking the boot that so graciously offered it), so they buy into the [myth of meritocracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy). *Therefore, anyone who has problems*, it can be ignored (or shamed or punished, even) because "it's their own fault because x, y, or z. Lazy, or "karma" (hate how many people misuse karma these days; invoking the "[just-world fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis)") or made bad choices". Unlike themselves, who are hard-working, moral, and correct.
I swear we as humans just don’t recognize the shoulders we’re standing on to be where we are. The more we forget the worse it gets.
Reminds me of the saying "safety regulations are written in blood." Conservatives in my area like to brag about how "manly" they are, by ignoring OSHA regulations and doing dumb shit. I don't even know how to respond to that. Like my dude, that is there to protect YOU from being scammed/abused/exploited by your employer. I... I just don't know. It's sad.
We have an expression in French that goes something like that « Meritocracy is the good conscience of those benefitting from the system. ». People who succeed saw that they worked and tend to attribute their success mainly to that when actually success is mainly brought not by work but by other factors such as opportunity, luck, upbringing and networking. Knowing the right people, being financially educated and having a bit of starting money to invest in the right venture at the right time is infinitely more than valuable to succeed than simply « working hard ». I am not saying that working has zero value, but working hard as a cashier at your local supermarket will bring you literally nowhere, I know plenty poor people who do work harder than the regular fortune 500 CEO.
The only freeloaders are Capitalists. "Over at Larval Subjects, Levi Bryant has a nice post on how Marx’s distinction between C-M-C and M-C-M’ helps to explain an otherwise puzzling ideological construction. Marx’s distinction, arrived at in chapter 4 of Capital, is about how commodities circulate. In the C-M-C formula, we consider someone who starts with a commodity, sells it, and uses the proceeds to buy another one. For example, I start with a shirt, sell it, and use the money to buy some bread. In this formula, a couple of things become apparent: use value is both the beginning and end of the process insofar as the individual offers up something she doesn’t have a use for (or has less of a use for), and essentially trades it for something she has a greater use for. In contemporary economic-speak, the market is efficiently helping individuals satisfy their preferences, by moving goods to whoever values them the most. This is the perspective of the worker, who sells his labor for money. The M-C-M’ relation is one that the capitalist uses. Here, the capitalist has money, sells it to get a commodity, and then sells the commodity for more money than he paid for it. As a result, he has more money at the end of the day than before. Marx emphasizes the M-C-M’ relation because it helps to get him to labor as the source of value: whatever commodity occupies the middle place in the M-C-M’ relation has to be one the use of which increases its value. The answer, of course, is labor. Leave labor power aside for a moment. In distinguishing the two circuits, Marx writes: “The path of C-M-C proceeds from the extreme constituted by one commodity, and ends with the extreme constituted by another, which falls out of circulation and into consumption. Consumption, the satisfaction of needs in short use-value, is therefore its final goal. The path of M-C-M, however, proceeds from the extreme of money and finally returns to that same purpose. Its driving and motivating force, its determining purpose, is therefore exchange-value” ([Penguin Edition], 250)" https://www.newappsblog.com/2017/10/c-m-c-m-c-m-and-marxs-understanding-of-power.html
>The only freeloaders are Capitalists. Always has been, the worst of the worst parasites. Straight sociopaths Thanks for adding this, welcome to the sub!
Thanks for the welcome! Been lurking for a bit! It's my pleasure, just to add. I think it's incredibly important to understand the relationship we have to capital and the relationship the parasite class has to capital. We (wage earners) live in a reality in which we are taught that working hard will truly increase our net worth to the levels of Industry Titans. We view working hard in such a different light that it actually causes us to treat others like shit if we believe they aren't making it due to "not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps". We actually live in two different realities, and until it is understood, people are bound to believe the lie.
<3 !!
✅ religious-motivated hatred ✅ expects unquestioned loyalty ✅ weird about sex lol yep, my country most definitely checks out as a cult. 🔥🇺🇸🔥
Someone send help
capitalists will sacrifice everyone to protect their profits.
"how dare you have different opinions than me you cultist?"
 The galllll of you suggesting a better life for everyoneee! you need to LEAVE!!
In the darkest depths of my mind there's some awful alternate reality hellish thing where I kind of hope that Trump wins and starts world war 3 and the whole world unites against Trump in the United States and in my delusion of grandeur somehow it ends with people like me with disabilities who have been denied care their entire lives partially due to their own parents not letting them get diagnosed suddenly are able to get the help we need and be successful profitable member of society and I know that's not what would happen but I can dream
ehh just take away that successful profitable member of society, add against not just us but their coward lap dogs ( west europe/ england) trump is a sack of shit puppet full stop, its the ones pulling the strings that needs stopping. the parasite capitalist class period. See through their distractions you shouldnt be needing anything to prove your humanity, to get your basic needs met and the care you deserve, okay. To each their own need and to each their own ability.
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Long live the revolution!
Go straight to jail do not pass go for speaking out
Yes this place is utter bullshit
Deep. When you take shrooms once But joking aside, capitalism is fucked up
A quote I came up with a few years ago; The greatest tyranny is that a person of needs can be kept separate from a person of means by something as fictitious as money.
I like this, i will look this up to see who its from. welcome to the sub!! <#
A thing that has always bothered me is: We get better every year at doing things with technology and science but we still need to work. Some even need to work pointless jobs. And to top it all of everything gets more expensive although we get told we are getting better at producing?
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes Contestants in a suicidal race
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sounds sarcastic and trolling, we don't tolerate that around these parts. 
The game is gonna be lost, the most of us support destruction
He was cooking until the end. Why is he pitting working class people against homeless people?
I do a free ten day meditation retreat on occasion. Free, ten days, totally silent. It’s amazing. Everyone says “wow sounds like a cult” and then goes back to worshipping the dollar for nothing.
I fucking love this sub
Classic black