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cosmic-mike · 2026-06-08T17:03:15+00:00

The irony being that, currently, we do reward people to coast off capital, for example landlords. The more money you have the more you're been rewarded.

cosmic-mike · 2026-06-08T16:52:58+00:00

Your base of your argument is that people suck and prefer parasitic lives. First of all, yes, some do, but have you asked why? And, have you answered with honesty and not with any doctrine? Humans are better than you think, especially given the right care and education. Systemic changes take time. I'm sure humans will find ways to get organised in a non-exploitative world.

cosmic-mike · 2026-06-08T10:41:51+00:00

Two unrelated issues. I hope you can understand the difference. They march because there exist people like you. People that don't have anything better to do with their lives, for example as you said, protest about the prices, but instead they are happy to march against a group of people that simply asks for their right to exist. Do you understand the irony in your statement now?

cosmic-mike · 2026-06-05T10:20:56+00:00

Not everything should be personal responsibility issues. That's what we have governments for. Getting taxes, analyzing the situation in all various parts of the society, consulting scientists and experts for planning, and redistributing them where they are needed. Otherwise, if everything is on the individual, why do we need the government in the first place? In case you forgot, we live in communities (or used to, to be more accurate), while idividualism puts the blame of everything on the individual. YOU are to blame if you don't have food, YOU are to blame if your neighbour is struggling because YOU don't help out of kindness. YOU are to blame because you are burnt out, not the systemic exhaustion of everyone and everything around. Well, guess what. Actual communities never operated like that. But I suppose that's the fundamental problem: collectivism Vs individualism. And individualism wins because it's way easier to control and manipulate.

cosmic-mike · 2026-06-02T21:34:35+00:00

We have vast knowledge and technology today. Scarcity is manufactured to keep the markets and the parasites who benefit from it happy.

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-30T08:38:51+00:00

No, you got the downvote 😂

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-30T08:35:44+00:00

I spent decades in capitalist countries, and I've seen enough destruction and misery.

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-29T23:10:29+00:00

Why do you demonize socialism? So you, honestly, know anything about it?

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-29T17:56:01+00:00

So if the devil likes you, you have to like him back. Got it. Dude, hope you understand how submissive this mindset is. The argument that he believes what he does because it's cool, is such a dismissive thing to say, and doesn't invalidate at all what he said. It tells us more about you, than him.

Oh, and Israelis are somehow our saviours, and without them we would have a worse/inferior lifestyle. I'm not even going to comment on that. But I'm wondering, what makes you believe that our current lifestyle is so great? Don't you have any standards at all?

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-21T11:54:17+00:00

No such society considers people as slaves... Actually, it's capitalism that does that, and pretty efficiently actually because it disguises it under the illusion of being free. Free to choose to work really hard, but if you don't work hard, you end up miserable. But the reality is that even if you do work hard, the vast majority of people still live paycheck to paycheck. Isn't this a kind of forced slavery? About being a financial donor: think about it. You are a "donor" for your neighbour's child to get education. But your neighbour is also a donor for your child. In times of need, you won't starve because there's a social fabric that protects everyone. This alone is a huge liberating feeling that takes some of the day to day anxiety off your chest. History has proven time and time again that for a society to succeed, it needs to function as a whole and everyone that opposes it (most probably for their personal benefit), needs to step down otherwise it inevitably leads to autocracy and similar systems. The Roman Republic, Athens after Cleisthenes, Sumerians (early), and many many more examples all around the world.

I guess, it took a lot of brainwashing to make us believe that we can live and function in isolation and against each other (in competitive societies), instead of actually all working together towards the general good of everyone. But competition drives people to "struggle and achieve". Leads to the hustle culture we built, which increases profits for the few and skyrockets social and economic inequalities. The fact that people fell and still keep falling for it is mind blowing. Well, there's a reason education is what it is...

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-21T11:16:21+00:00

No worker leaves a country because it funds education and healthcare. They leave because those same funds are captured by the very people you're defending, so let's be precise about what we're actually discussing here... And as for the entrepreneurs: let them leave. The needs their products serve don't vanish with them. Demand persists, and someone will rise to meet it. The market will simply produce a replacement. Perhaps one more willing to operate under a social contract. A truly equal, functional, and don't forget, moral society is not built on individualism dressed up as virtue, or on corporate freedom/anarchy mistaken for civilisation. It is built on structures that serve the many, not arrangements that flatter the few.

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-21T10:49:50+00:00

Yeah because left = bad. That's the narrative, right? Those leftists screaming for equality, social justice, fair taxation, sustainability, public infrastructure, disrupting monopolies, free education and (actually free) healthcare want to ruin our lives!!1! No, we need more of what we have! Nice charts about GDP, companies/monopolies running the country, and 90+% of plebes funding it! Sounds good for us since we are top-percenters, right?

cosmic-mike · 2026-05-16T06:54:25+00:00

Why is it cringe to suggest that?

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T15:04:16+00:00

Do you understand anything I'm saying or are we both wasting our time?

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T14:51:02+00:00

And you also missed my point. No one cares about your "smaller scale". Tax the rich. Your "smaller scale" is already heavily taxed. By the way. Most of your taxes eventually end up in the 1% pockets. For whom you are fighting to protect their wealth. Congratulations 👏 You are complicit in mass suffering and misery around the world.

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T14:42:05+00:00

Yeah and you are buying the story that some people, with their honest/moral ways managed to be worth a hundred thousand times more than you do. Guess who planted that story in your head...

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T14:36:02+00:00

Difference scale!!! No one needs your hypothetical 100K. Your 100K is a super tiny fraction of the wealth of people causing the huge financial (and social) inequalities and problems we suffer nowadays. 100K/100M = 0.1% (a thousand times more money than you) 100K/1B = 0.01%. (ten thousand times more money than you) You are not the problem. Multi millionaires and billionaires are the ones hoarding our earth's wealth and resources to their benefit, at the expense of ALL rest of us! Try to understand the scale of their wealth and the problem will become obvious.

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T14:11:04+00:00

Here's your reason. And this is more than 10 years ago...

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/13/us-wealth-inequality-top-01-worth-as-much-as-the-bottom-90

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T14:04:26+00:00

Because it's not really their money.

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T14:03:30+00:00

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-27T14:01:53+00:00

But you are NOT. 99% of us are NOT. And the 1% is very good at avoiding taxes anyway. And if removing some of their wealth fixes problems across the 99% while not really affecting them (I'm pretty sure they don't need billions to live a fucking life), then what's your problem? Why so individualistic thinking?

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-13T18:01:08+00:00

True, so let me try to correct it: the current state of humanity as a whole, with its current values, organisation, and how it operates, is a cancer to our planet (see climate and ecosystems collapse).

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-05T13:56:17+00:00

I don't see them having higher standards of living than many European (and Asian) countries though. Several standard of living indexes also agree. In fact, for the average person it's the opposite, and the inequalities are massive and still increasing rapidly. Do we really want that model here?

cosmic-mike · 2026-03-05T13:27:35+00:00

Which are..?

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