royaltheartist

The system we live in is one in which everything is in the control of the elites. Who makes all the decisions about technology? The CEOs of massive tech firms. Who makes all the political decisions in government? To a person almost exclusively the rich, those who hoard capital.

Have you seen the footage coming out Chicago, New York and Portland of police beating people in the streets? You might want to ask what country is putting the jackboot on people's necks to maintain social order

Any system which allows for communal control of the means of production and for people to make economic and political decisions for themselves.

Well, the shorter answer is that ownership and control of capital is where their power derives from. Thus, they get to make the decisions of how wealth is distributed, and it mostly benefits themselves

Compared to the wealthy who have enriched themselves

The stock market did not go up because of the increase in people's incomes. It went up because of several trillion dollars worth of cash injections from the Federal Bank. For everyone else, unemployment has pushed to 10% on the low end and I'll repeat the part about 40 million people looking at evictions by the end of the year.

And "rich people usually get rich through capital markets" is just a fancy of way of saying they have ownership of everything and profit off of other peoples's labor

Weird how the people with all the power also have all the wealth. Must be a coincidence.

The rich have control of the political system and constantly pass and enforce legislation that benefits them. Weird.

40 million people are on track to being evicted in one of the biggest economic downturns in history. Except, the wealthy just got even more wealthy.

This system is a failure for everyone that isn't in the 1%

Those are political decisions.

Nobody ever "takes" anyone else's job. Management makes the decision to fire some workers and hire others to save costs. And they'll keep doing this to save more and more money.

As long as every company is driven by their rapacious desire for profit, they will continue to screw over workers to net more for themselves. Thinking in terms of another worker taking something from you lets the decisions of those above you off the hook.

Ban cars

If only there were a difference between murders and freak accidents.

By the amount of attention this issue gets, one might actually think it were a real problem and not something that a specific segment of the population really wants to focus on. Even the open letter itself only mentions "conversations" and "proposals." No professor at a major university seems to have actually be sanctioned or punished for what they say on this issue, despite all the conversation around it.

We can compare that to the 10 trans people murdered (according to Wiki) just this year alone. And that's just the ones Wiki editors decided merited inclusion. There are probably more, some unknown, and countless other trans individuals who face violence and harassment on a near daily basis.

Meanwhile, the hollowness of these arguments and the crocodile tears of the people who focus on them is laid bare when considers the amount of anti-BDS legislation that have been passed, with many universities requiring speakers to sign statements saying they will not and have never engaged in BDS.

These people, these "philosophers", simply want to be allowed to be transphobic in public without consequences. But that's the real heart of freedom and free speech. You can say what you what, it's true, but you're not free from people talking back or deciding they don't want to hear from you.