30 Disturbing Anti-Capitalism Posts That Hit Too Close To Home

In a nutshell, yes.

Unfortunately, far too many people are directing their anger in the wrong place. The wealthy have mastered the art of stoking class, racial, religious, and all kinds of resentments to keep the heat off themselves. It works so why not do it?

At this point, "free speech" is nothing but a dogwhistle for committing hate crimes without repercussions.

Trickle down will happen any day now, I promise.

As far as I know, decency and empathy are still free.

I think that it's the "ruling class" weaponizing capitalism to instill systemic oppression and the working class desire for upward mobility or at least the facade of it (keeping up with the Kardashians or Jones' or whoever) that truly cripples us as a society. All the while we're fed the "company line" of the poor being a drain on the working class. Nope. The richest have always done anything they could possibly do to stay up top and keep that club as small as possible. No war but Class War.

Sadly alot of people only care when it affects them.

So lets start violence

Oh this is good

Knowing that this entry will stay at the bottom of the list infuriates, but doesn't surprise me. People are all about "being kind" and "having empathy" for anyone but Palestinians.

I vaguely recall at least one episode of "Quincy, M.E." where he's enraged at that new at the time development.

Always remember: insurance is the only industry on the planet where the amount of money they make is directly connected to the amount of the time they say "no" to their customers.

Money CAN buy a lot of the things conductive to happiness

"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

Warren Buffet, not exactly a person you would think of regarding lower income champion, had 5 changes to the Soc Sec system he would like to see. Would you believe a higher retirement age was 4th on the list? #1: Remove the cap on taxed income (currently $168K) to include ALL income. #2: Means testing benefits. #3: Higher payroll tax...

If grocery prices continue to rise, we MAY be forced to literally eat the rich. I bet lEon tastes like burnt rubber.

And that's why the "business leaders" work so hard to put out even the tiniest spark of worker organization.

Countless hours... I cut down my salaried work from full-time (55 hours a week) to part-time (40 hours a week) recently and can barely afford to live. I shouldn't have to work part-time to work 40 hours a week... I'm a teacher so I can't just do less or get coworkers and management to do more, my cutting down would directly impact the kids and they don't deserve that. But hey! I get 5-6 weeks off in the summer, right?

thats true everywhere.

We have to keep hope alive, as impossible as that seems right now. To get to that utopian future envisioned by folks like Gene Roddenberry when he created the original Star Trek, I think things have to get much worse before they can get better. We think we've gotten past all that, after abolishing slavery, restoring many basic human rights, etc. -- but it hasn't been that long since those days, and I think the road will be a lot longer, and a lot bumpier, than we thought it would be.

Unionize for safety. Against the ruling class.

The more things change, etc.

A lot of righties think the founders had it right in the first place. They want us to go back to the 50’s…the 1850’s.

Not in a pure unfettered capitalist society. In fact, pure unfettered capitalist society always end up not being democratic or even truly capitalistic. We end up with monopolies and oligarchies. Capitalism with guardrails has been the best system so far. Look at the European nations with high standards of living and happiness. They are ALL capitalist societies.

Well, I'm glad both paid sick days and access to healthcare are rights enforced by law, then. In Australia, at least.

George Carlin, back when being poor meant having no job: "The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the s**t out of the middle class... keep on showing up at those jobs."

we cant. the system is designed to need exploiters.

Just as I told my nephew and his husband regarding Chik-Fil-A and their stance on gay folk...don't buy, and encourage others not to buy, their s***.

Been saying this for decades. The longer the commute, the more important it is.

And that's why the FBI targeted him.

Abso - bloody - lutely

No we're not. The good years lasted into the 1970s. Plenty of us remember that. In the UK, I got free university education and lived on a student grant. I was eligible for housing benefit, and claimed unemployment in the long summer vacation. I could get a same day GP appointment by calling up, and we had these mysterious unicorns called NHS Dentists. Heat and light were affordable, and we had great public transport. With luck Ive got another 20 years to bang on about how things don't have to be the way they are now.

In some respects, I get the argument of revamping Dept of Ed. The BASICS of literacy and maths have been lost and ignored in the pursuit of "high standards" and inclusion. Of making sure everyone gets a participation trophy. Wholesale removal of Dept of Ed, however, does nothing more than ensure that kids are turned into ignorant adults, willing to swallow whatever bilge is spewed at them from people in power. Basic critical thought is derided, and with the push for public funding of Religious schools, will ensure an obedient and thoughtless society, too fearful of individual thought.

How are you gonna distribute power when you have only two political parties?

We have two major parties in the US; one is pro-business, the other is REALLY pro-business

Make Stock Buybacks Illegal Again

The fact that he covertly told an old woman how to get the money she is entitled to through her insurance and right of law, and his boss's reaction to that, is showing me that this isn't the first time he's done this. He never stopped being a hero.

This pic is great since the last guillotine execution happened in the same year Star Wars premiered.

Capitalism needs poverty to function well. People in dire straits are easy to exploit.

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them high and lowly and ordered their estate... we actually sang it at school.

Wow, there's tone deaf and there's this.

[side-eyes where I work] Yes.

Then you end up with the Evil of two lessers!

Anarchy won the popular vote.

Written by someone who doesn't't understand what DEI programs are, or how they work.