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  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.ml"Democracy"
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    14 天前

    If voting didn’t work, you will blame it on corruption or unprecedented times like war or natural disaster.

    Its either democracy or some external thing happened, never that voting didn’t bring democracy.

    And we haven’t even touched the subject of legally making it difficult for minority and “unwanted” groups to vote. We also didn’t talk about immigrants who live work and pay taxes but are not represented by voting


  • In general I agree with you, but I would refrain from using evolution/DNA example. Because then it leads to ‘social darwinism’.

    Evolution does not mean ‘more evolved is better’ but rather ‘more suited to the environment’.

    Take psychopathy (or even apthy towards minority groups) as an example, in a capitalist system, psychopathy is more evolved because you get to climb the corporate ladder faster.

    But this assumes that capitalism is unchanging, and final form of our society. But in reality, we can change the system. Under socialism or social democracy (with strict laws), psychopathy would no longer be ‘more evolved’.








  • Well, my comment was a classic “yo momma” joke. You asking for “what about hamas?” Is a very common fascist deflection. So if you talk like a fascist, don’t be mad to be treated as such.

    Next, armed struggle against an oppressive colonizing regime is protected under international law. And hamas is THE GOVERNMENT there that means even a government employed janitor as treated as a “terrorist”. In fact IOF uses this exact same rhetoric to kill civilian in gaza.

    As a popular mainstream icon, radiohead has power that we everyday individuals don’t. And when you talk like “oh hamas and IDF same same” that makes you either complicit at best or genocide apologist at worst.




  • Your whole point is “you don’t know” without actually providing anything. I may be wrong but at least im saying something. Please try and at least say something, otherwise what’s the point of your comment? Gain upvotes/give down votes on lemmy?

    And at least for me, I actually live in EU and many of my friends have worked and many acquaintances are still working as servers so at least my opinion has some worth.

    Where are you from btw?


  • Lol, what?

    I am literally talking about how much suffering it would cause if we keep trying to “fix capitalism” with bandage after bandage and how each and everything would need fixing which will turn into something not capitalistic anyways.

    I don’t want to be rude but people should have better reading comprehension and learn to read between the lines or just read i guess.


  • Sure tipping for things may not be applicable in eu. But here’s another example: imagine the first person who got a loan cuz they wanted to buy a house but didn’t have the money at the time.

    The bank who lent the money did a nice thing. Other banks and people started doing the same. And because people had access to more money, the price of houses increased to match with it.

    Despite the fact that those people don’t actually have that money and now it is a requirement. Nobody can afford to buy a house unless they go into debt. Again this is capitalism and the free market in action.

    The reason tipping so “people can have livable wage” is not a thing in the EU is because the EU does have a livable minimum wage.

    The concept of minimum wage is inherently anti-capitalistic. It is against the principles of free market.


  • The issue with tipping is an issue with capitalism.

    It is capitalism that has ruined nice things. Imagine the first person who tipped someone because their service was good and it was a nice thing to do. Next other people started doing it as well, which makes the profession with tipping more favorable.

    This leads to a higher supply of workers and lower demand and the market adjusts which means lower pay because “they will receive tips”.

    Also it is easy to vilify the shop owners for doing something that the system encourages and even demands them. We don’t know how or in what ways the shop owners are suffering because of the system.

    Also to acknowledge their suffering is not to say that their suffering is equal to the suffering of their workers but rather we need to identify that everybody suffers in capitalism (except the very rich/elites).

    The way to fix this is to stop tipping altogether. This will hurt the workers for sure but their suffering is necessary in order for things to change, at least under the current system.

    Or alternatively, we can try and abolish the system altogether.