‘Anti Capitalist’: 30 Times People Realized That Modern Capitalism Is Starting To Look Ridiculous

I liked this so much that I went to the source to upvote it there too.

Where's the lie tho?

Plus there are few skills that can be learnt for the same price as Netflix. Yes, I can watch a tutorial for free on YouTube, but where do I get the materials? Even stuff like digital art tutorials with free software requires a good computer.

THIS!!! As an American, I am saddened by the fact that we have an extremely high rate of homelessness. We evict and destroy tent site where the homeless live and do nothing to replace or help them. There are many many empty homes and old factories that could be used to house them and improve their lives yet they still set empty. Its disgusting. I do what I can to help in my community but we need to be helping at a national level. These people are humans and citizens of our country yet are cast aside and left to die in the elements. It just sad on so many levels.

My friend once told me, "You can't budget your way out of your income bracket." It was some of the best advice I'd ever gotten.

I like it

I can already hear a comment of a healthcareless, ideologically blinded billionaire supporter: “Oooooh, a socialist!”

We germans got a raise in minimum wage this year, currently it's 10,45€ (11,82$)

Wait I happen to hate myself

people today still believe in the 'being poor is an attitude' misconception it's hilariously unfortunate

An extremely valid point! I agree 100%!

That's the US capitalism, we in Europe pay universal healthcare with the concept. People that earn more, pay more

Oof this one is pretty real

That can be done with capitalism, works great here in europe

I was talking with a family member about war reparations the other day, and ended up googling if the US had ever paid reparations for any of the wars they've been in. Turns out, the only reparations the US has ever paid, was to surviving members of the Japanese internment camps (in the 80s, I think), and to some people who were sterilised against their will in Florida. The US is extremely bad at taking responsibility for it's past bad acts

Agree

Also, all iphones are currently made in Communist China. They were invented in a capitalist society, but are made in a communist one.

Americans seem to love the myth of 'anyone can be a billionaire' it's like a religion

THIIIS. ALL OVER.

Pretty much.

In the UK our entire lifeboat/rescue from water system is run and peopled by volunteers and they are world class.

bodyslam cop. eat the corrupt. kill the rich. take their leftovers. seize control of the government. do it.

I may be naïve, but isn't it a good thing that a company has opened a warehouse in a poor area that would offer jobs to those in much need?

Eat the rich!

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I know people who own 2+ homes. Just does not seem right. I did hear that at least one country has laws that if you own a house you have to live in it. Hope that is true and that it catches on.

The real crime is the cost of buying/renting a home.

Go on Reddit and you'll see many Americans in total denial of this.

Looks more like an armchair homeless advocate. As one who has worked in the homeless field, it is more complicated than people want to accept. However, things can change to make it better, less complicated, and quicker to respond to peoples needs.

Look at all that freedom!

precisely what do the ultra-rich do then

Yes, yes and yes!!

sanity is the thing i lost this year and i'm gonna end up in a asylum at the end of this one or in the cemetery don't know which one i'll choose

That is nuts

Way too true!

I don't know whether to cry over this text or laugh at the stupid politicians!

This is how I was raised and how I lived my life. Now, my body is worn out and I can't afford to fix it.... What about the deal we had..... I work hard for you all my life, I never see my kids school activities because I'm away at sea on an oilrig, killing myself for my company and my family. Now, you just wiped your hands of me, I can only suffer from my damaged body and hope for a quick death. It's all a lie, America is a lie. Look at me, did everything you are supposed to do, but America turned its back on me as an old wounded warrior. Damn America to hell!

this is precisely what happened to peasants after the black death in europe when nobles realised they had to pay peasants better or lose them (also the black death killed a lot of peasants)

Yep. We also tell new parents that they're superheroes without offering any support, build more homeless shelters when most unhoused people fear the trauma that happens in large shelters, focus on correcting the narrative of Thanksgiving without backing any tribal nation's current struggles with treaties, and redesign Mrs. Butterworth instead of passing voting rights legislation. The common theme in all of these is that when people who are not directly impacted by a policy decide to make the policy, nine times out of ten, they miss the mark. The key to fixing this is to support people at the heart of an issue in deciding what they need, then throw your time, energy, and resources behind their leadership.

“It means it was weather and not a bunch of lunatics smearing their poos on the wall of a government building.”

Stop sneering at people for imperfectly navigating a system that is rigged against them.

Perfect analogy honestly (analogy? Metaphor?)

LOL

Me in 20 years at Thanksgiving

.....taught the colonists how to grow corn and they were BFF's forever and lived happy ever after. NO SIR THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. Lives were taken. Land was stolen.The colonists were brutal and violent.

And remember kids, be gay, do crime

Kiss a lot of ass or be born into a rich family. They're the only routes to success.

That's f****d

True. I don't know a single person who had something stolen and the police either found the items, or caught the person who did it. NOT ONE. As far as I'm concerned the only reason you ring the police after a burglary is to get an "incident reference number" from them so your insurance company will pay out.

This might be satire, but not a good one considering people were killed there because management refused to evacuate...

I get what you mean, but getting people back to work prevents them from becoming homeless. You may see this as dystopia, but it's also real life. People need money to provide for themselves and their loved ones.

I am 16. Currently, I work a part time job and make $14.00/hr. When I was in first grade, my mom worked a full time job at $12.00/hr, at night, driving for 1.5 hours over icy roads on very little sleep. This is capitalism. I think it's time for a change

It's a privilege not to be political. It means that everything is working for you well enough in your life that you don't feel the need to devote yourself to policy changes. It also means you're either very very sheltered and ignorant or that you're lacking empathy to not support people who have it worse than you in their political struggles either.

im 13 and scared to grow up for this reason. i want to be a psychologist, but college costs a lot of money...

some people learned the fact that keeping your head down while getting kicked just lead to getting kicked some more...for good or bad, they don't take all the shits

Again, as a Brit can someone explain this? If you're ill and can't work you phone in sick, and then it's the manager's job to cover your work, right? Is it standard practice in the US the the person that's ill has to find cover for their shift? What happens otherwise?

This is wrong. Of course you are entitled to your paid holidays, but we can not all take time off at the same time. In my company we all request our 25 to 30 days off at the beginning of the year and the bosses then check if it all works out or if some need to move some time off around. If that is the case, then we employees discuss this amongst ourselves and make sure that it is not always the same people who have to step down. That you can take all your time off is granted by law in my country, but not always when you want it, but it mostly works out in my company. This is why it is 'requesting' and not 'notifying' and a basic principle of teamwork.

Comparing things USA does to NK: https://www.instagram.com/p/CW1sS_6LYTD/