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  • tetris11@feddit.uktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•politic
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    1 day ago

    what’s the belief that capitalism can work and can stay aligned with individual freedoms whilst providing a social security net, as long as a strict upper cap on wealth is unrelentingly enforced[1], such that the richest person in the world can only be 5x richer than the median person?


    1. say, by an omniscient omnipresent kill drone ↩︎









  • You get free water with the coffee, use that water to get a free tapa, and use that tapa to exchange with your neighbour for their water.

    Pretty soon you will have secured all the water in the restaurant, which you can then use to barter for a coffee, which will give you free water (if they have it), thus tightening the grip on your market supremacy.

    Then you broaden your horizons and set your sights on the red planet. If anyone calls you a fool, confiscate their water and drink more caffeine, and if anyone tries to take your caffeine away, send them away to the red planet






  • Boomhauer: Man I tell you what Hank, about that dang ol’ meaning of life man, it’s like this man: It’s like butterfly flapping his wings, and gon’ cause a tree fall. Ain’t nobody see it nobody don’t doesn’t even happen. Baby’s born into this world, ain’t no goddamn friends. Find out all about let alone evil’s about. Or like a dang ol’ candle in the wind. It don’t matter man. Now I think therefore you are, man. It’s like you born into this world man, just like dust in the wind. You don’t even know man.

    Hank: … well, that’s what we tell ourselves isn’t it.