Nobody works, nobody gives a damn anymore because of socialism

Coming from someone who doesn't work anymore because of capitalism...

If you view owners as harvesters/predators of the available labor force to accumulate for themselves, full employment means diminished actual competition between them for resources and lower yields. He wouldn't be rich if people had better options to begin with.

Home Depot jobs in my area pay $0.50/hr better than McDonald's. McDonald's is honest work, I'm not dunking on it, just a reference point. So Home Depot is a job, and you come home smelling maybe better. Not like he started something head and shoulders better to work for.

The entire basis for human society is socialism: the cooperative, collective effort to produce food, shelter, and safety for one’s community (read: tribe, village, township, nation).

It is a damn shame that the term has been so crudely abused and distorted in the USA, becoming the go-to bogeyman for those that wish to prevent the working class from their share of the wealth of the nation. No universal healthcare for you people: it would enable you to find a better job without fear of losing your benefits. No social safety nets, lest it give you the security to seek out something better.

So long as all y’all refuse to work together to better everyone’s circumstances, all y’all will continue to suffer at the hands of those with the money and political power.

I'm particularly amused by this line of "reasoning".

First, the problem does not even exist in objective reality - as the article states, employment is at an all time high.

Second, even if the proximate problem were real, the causality must be attributed to the economic system we actually have, not to a theoretical socialist strawman.

These statements project an inner world of ideological fantasy that bear no resemblance to facts. A better take, more grounded in reality, might be "American-style capitalism is working exactly as intended".

Ah yes, the time tested socialism scapegoat. Just enough high schoolers swallowed the capitalist economics fallacies force fed during their formative years to make this a profitable pursuit for many decades after. But the tide is turning. Judging by the comments, we the peasants are figuring out what slavery looks like these days.

"'Just give it to me. Send me money. I don't want to work — I'm too lazy, I'm too fat, I'm too stupid.'"

tl;dr: fat cat rants about poor people not wanting to take slave wages etc, blames them for being lazy.