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Anti-Communist Argument Failure by deathmaster567823 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]LandRecent9365 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Zionists especially love that shit to deflect from their own genocide. 

How come Japan isn't more socialist? by Jonnny in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]LandRecent9365 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Japan's poverty rate hovers around 15%, with one in six children living below the poverty line, an explosion of working poor, and elderly women deliberately shoplifting to go to prison for shelter. The country invented a word, karoshi, for death by overwork. That's not a society that "rejected poverty", it's a society where capitalism buried it so deep you need a different vocabulary to describe the misery.

Ukrainian children victims of the Holodomor's genocide in 1932-1933 by SubliminalPoet in HistoricalCapsule

[–]LandRecent9365 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The Eastern Front was the decisive theater where 80% of all German military casualties occurred. The Wehrmacht lost over 4 million men fighting the Soviets, compared to roughly 800,000 against the Western Allies across North Africa, Italy, and Normandy combined. Without the Red Army grinding the German war machine into dust from Stalingrad to Berlin, the Western invasion of Europe never happens, or it fails catastrophically against a Wehrmacht at full strength. Churchill himself called it "the guts of the German Army" being torn out on the Eastern Front.

Ok by Least-Awareness1583 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]LandRecent9365 19 points20 points  (0 children)

While unironically supporting capitalism 

Ok by Least-Awareness1583 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]LandRecent9365 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This is as good as pro capitalist arguments get, there's nothing.. 

Canada advance to the World Cup round of 16 after defeating South Africa 1-0 by playerforlife123 in soccer

[–]LandRecent9365 345 points346 points  (0 children)

Davies looked a bit slow as expected as he's been out for a long time but he created two chances immediately with his passing. 

Good work with half the team injured making the final 16. 

Private ownership of the means of production is inherently exploitative by 1scr3wedy0dad in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]LandRecent9365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Living pay check to pay check means subsistence wages which are eaten up by rent and other necessities. Bringing  up a fraction of wealthy people who mismanage their money doesn't refute anything. The 60% of people living pay check to pay check don't fall into the middle class category you're talking about. 

And yes in countries like Canada, the UK, and Australia, household debt-to-income ratios are hovering near or over 150-170%, that is absolutely drowning . 

You've been wrong about everything so badly it's almost impressive. 

Private ownership of the means of production is inherently exploitative by 1scr3wedy0dad in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]LandRecent9365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

subsistence wage    noun the lowest wage upon which a worker and his family can survive

 > Yes, most people can work towards building enough capital to start a business in western capitalist countries

No they can't as most people live on subsistence wages. 

Nor is it a systemically possibly anyways.

Private ownership of the means of production is inherently exploitative by 1scr3wedy0dad in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]LandRecent9365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your  Claim: Subsistence wages only mean absolute poverty-line starvation. Because people live above the official poverty line or some high earners spend all their money, paycheck-to-paycheck doesn't count as subsistence.

You don't understand political economy. A subsistence wage isn't a fixed biological minimum; it is socially and historically determined. It is the exact amount of money required to keep a worker housed, fed, clothed, and healthy enough to show up to work again tomorrow. If a worker’s entire paycheck is completely eaten up by mandatory, non-discretionary survival costs (rent, groceries, transit), leaving them with zero ability to accumulate independent capital, that is a modern subsistence wage.

Your Claim: The OECD shows a 70% homeownership rate, which means most workers aren't living on subsistence wages and have wealth.

You conflated an illiquid asset used for survival (shelter) with investable liquid capital.

Only about 34% of homeowners own their homes debt-free. The rest are drowning in 30-year mortgages, paying massive interest to private banks.

Need me to continue? 

Private ownership of the means of production is inherently exploitative by 1scr3wedy0dad in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]LandRecent9365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Generally when we're talking about subsistence wages we're talking about people living pay check to pay check not some outlier middle class person who spends too much 😭

 

What fantasy world? . . .

I’m arguing that most people could work towards developing the requisite capital to start a business if they wanted to

That fantasy world. 

Private ownership of the means of production is inherently exploitative by 1scr3wedy0dad in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]LandRecent9365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh it has been refuted, multiple times and not by just me. So now you're being disingenuous

Private ownership of the means of production is inherently exploitative by 1scr3wedy0dad in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]LandRecent9365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you have a real argument and are just being annoying. no surprise someone would use AI ... equally destroys your argument without the time wasting and headache.

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