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explodIng_lIme ,

I just want freedom period. If that means being rich then I guess I’ll do that

rivvvver ,
@rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

what if it means taking other ppls freedom away from them in the process?

xilona ,

can you provide an example please…

frightful_hobgoblin ,

'sploiting workers

Chakravanti ,

That’s not freedom. Money is always a trap.

Napain OP ,

u will work yourself to death and make everybody around you miserable

gnomesaiyan ,
@gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world avatar

Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there ain’t no
Rich no more

grrgyle ,

Incidentally, no
Poor no more
Either

Rhynoplaz ,

What?!? But then how will I know who I’m BETTER than?!?

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation where we are judged not by the size of our bank account, but by the content of our character.

(Spoilers: we won’t.)

Rhynoplaz ,

If you ever figure out where that nation is, let me know and I’ll start packing.

xilona ,

me too, I have packed already. Let me know the gps coordinates please 😄

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

There are probably some small remote tribes/communes out there somewhere that follow this.

doingthestuff ,

They won’t accept large scale immigration.

Chakravanti ,

Self education.

PunnyName ,

I’m stealing your edit

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

We can, but it requires not having billionaires.

alvvayson ,

No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.

The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

Functionally, we don’t have one. The closest is the Green Party, but they’re so powerless that they may as well not exist.

grrgyle ,

A lot of leftist view taxes as a good thing, when taken from those who can afford them

classic ,

Taxes have never been the issue. How they are used is. But that gets obfuscated so that the 99% shoot ourselves in the foot

MotoAsh ,

Taxes are DEFINITELY an issue when I pay more taxes than many billion dollar corporations.

classic ,

Yes. You (and I, and most of us) are experiencing the end result of the American people being played with a deceiving narrative. "No taxes" is a con game to get us to this type of situation

SirDerpy , (edited )

It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

They all do. My best guess as to why you’d say this is that you’re including Democrats.

edit: Or, I could be a self-centered American that didn’t consider others. I’ll do better.

At risk of a strawman…

The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

That’s what’s best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it’s that equality and economic growth aren’t their goals.

StupidBrotherInLaw ,

It’s also possible they’re not from the US. There are dozens of us. Dozens!

SirDerpy ,

Fuck. I’m being a self-centered American, again. I’ll do better in the future. Thanks for the help.

maccentric , (edited )

Considering the strains currently on the environment, finding a way forward that doesn’t require continual growth is likely a necessity for our long term survival (possibly short term too)

SirDerpy ,

But, muh’ capitalism!

If it doesn’t work then we’ve killed all these socialists and communist for nothing.

(Do I need a /s here? Is it obvious? Should be obvious.)

Chakravanti ,

You’re wrong. It doesn’t require no money. It requires that you have rejected the sucker for money.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Only in a perfect world.

Chakravanti ,

Only in any world that doesn’t die shortly thereafter.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

This world isn’t going to die.

It’s just going to change.

Our species might though.

Chakravanti ,

Depends on the path we take. They’re after my truth.

doingthestuff ,

This is literally the future Jesus’ theoretical return presents but a lot of (not all) Christians aren’t on board.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, people have believed in dumb shit like that since our species emerged from the primordial ooze.

BleakBluets ,
@BleakBluets@lemmy.world avatar

It’s interesting how this scene was constructed. The blacksmiths and their table never appear outside except when guiding the one lost blacksmith back home. The old man is usually sleeping in the bar mumbling about his lost son (flute boy) until the pre-credits end sequence where they are reunited in the forest. The text boxes normally have a transparent background, but here it’s a darkened floor tile from Sahasrahla’s hut.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Whoever created this did that. They probably put the floor tile over the original text.

BleakBluets ,
@BleakBluets@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, at first I thought this could be a rom hack, which was interesting to me. But the more I look, it’s clearly just an edited picture; Link missing his shadow being the giveaway.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Even more more puzzling is how the imagery has absolutely nothing to do with the message. Like Dr. Manhattan Bobby on the moon complaining about capitalism.

TheDeepState ,

That’s a Bingo!

Zipitydew ,

Nah I definitely want both. My current hobbies are expensive. My dream hobby of getting a pilots license and a small plane would be really expensive.

null ,

So you want the freedom of getting a pilots license and a small plane.

UrPartnerInCrime ,

Wanting to be rich would mean wanting to have more wealth hoarded than you can spend. That’s psychotic and doesn’t sound like what you want

Zipitydew ,

Freedom doesn’t get me one of these plus funds to run it: racingjunk.com/…/2022-porsche-992-gt3-cup.html?ca…

So both. For sure.

Lucidlethargy ,

What if you used that plane every so often to fly others around? Or perhaps you share it with others like a time share?

It feels like there’s an answer here. I’m just spit balling, though. I’m not even fully against capitalism, I’m just kind of tired of… Well… All the billionaires and dramatic wealth inequality.

KombatWombat ,

Op discovers fiat currency.

frightful_hobgoblin ,

Sounds deep but isn’t

BurgerPunk ,
@BurgerPunk@hexbear.net avatar

Sounds deep but isn’t

wonder-who-thats-for

Chakravanti ,

It is shallow, sure. That doesn’t, however mean that it isn’t deep. Money is literally both and that’s because it eats your shoe sole and your soul. Don’t believe me? Good. Don’t believe anything at all. I don’t. I know what I know because I listen to “God” the Devil and the Dead. Six one way half a dozen the other. Heaven is what they don’t explain.

Hold on. I need to thrown the fuck up. Lets deconstruct the evil here. I know exactly what the Devil is saying and why Heath Ledger was murdered by the CIA.

frightful_hobgoblin ,

what

jawa21 ,
@jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Seemed fairly clear to me.

In 1884, meridian time personnel met in Washington to change Earth time. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on Earth to not change the 1 day bible. So they applied the 1 day and ignored the other 3 days.

AlolanYoda ,

Sounds deep but isn’t

Title of your sex tape

frightful_hobgoblin ,

ooooooooooooooh

ByteOnBikes ,

Is… This a real Zelda mod? I want it.

MNByChoice ,

$40 billion per year to end world hunger.

wfpusa.org/…/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-…

doingthestuff ,

That was a joke. Maybe end world hunger for a week.

frezik ,

Nope, those are the numbers. The UN isn’t in the habit of publishing satire.

PunnyName ,

Right now, as we live and die, there’s enough food to keep every human fed, with plenty of enjoyable meals included (not just boiled chicken and broccoli).

It’s about distribution, which is a corporate problem.

doingthestuff ,

Distribution is the problem. Authoritarians left and right are the problem. I work for a nonprofit that feeds the poor and temporarily under resourced and the government is our biggest obstacle.

mrmetaverse ,

It’s the fixed nitrates making this possible. We’re severely over the Earths organic capacity. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

ShaggySnacks ,

Capitalism encourages scarcity so the line will always go up.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Man if I had forty million bands i’d do it. Just rip off the bandaid. The world would be a better place.

mrmetaverse ,

BUT

avocado toast. 🥑

nonentity ,

I want wealth to be an indicator of a well-rounded member of society, instead of its current role as a proxy for sociopathy.

Also, how about relabelling excessive financial accumulation as something along the lines of ‘financial obesity’.

AShadyRaven ,

i just want a small property with a yard and a couple trees and room to grow some plants and tinker on projects

if only i didn’t spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on avocado toast in my 20s

Brickhead92 ,

Take a look at moneybags over here being able to afford avocado toast!

MystikIncarnate ,

Not sure what your point is old man, but I can’t get the freedom that the rich enjoy without being rich.

Deluding myself into a state of bliss when the mortgage is due doesn’t help anyone, especially me.

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