Isn’t this clearly about capitalism’s successes? I love that I can buy new socks. I trade my labor for money, and then I trade my money for the sock-maker’s labor. It’s a good thing at its core.
Except that these comments often come because someone said “it’s ridiculous that I can’t afford to get any of these things”. Someone will say that their socks have holes and they can’t afford new ones and there’ll be some asshole coming around telling to just fix it themselves.
I can fix my car myself, and there’s at least one car on the road today that is only there because I did the clutch and tie-rod job for free for the friend of a friend. There was no way they could have paid for any of it themselves. I just moved a friend three hours away for a masters/PhD program and they said that without my help it would have cost them $2,000 for movers.
If my stuff breaks and I can’t fix it myself then I don’t have stuff. I have gotten very good at fixing most things because of that, and my family is supposed to be middle class! Maybe even upper middle class! People that have less than me are extra fucked!
Capitalism is a hige goddamn failure for the people and massive success for the ultra rich who use it to siphon money and power for themselves and who tell poor people they’re lazy when they’re really just victims.
Isn’t this clearly about capitalism’s successes? I love that I can buy new socks. I trade my labor for money, and then I trade my money for the sock-maker’s labor. It’s a good thing at its core.
Except that these comments often come because someone said “it’s ridiculous that I can’t afford to get any of these things”. Someone will say that their socks have holes and they can’t afford new ones and there’ll be some asshole coming around telling to just fix it themselves.
I can fix my car myself, and there’s at least one car on the road today that is only there because I did the clutch and tie-rod job for free for the friend of a friend. There was no way they could have paid for any of it themselves. I just moved a friend three hours away for a masters/PhD program and they said that without my help it would have cost them $2,000 for movers.
If my stuff breaks and I can’t fix it myself then I don’t have stuff. I have gotten very good at fixing most things because of that, and my family is supposed to be middle class! Maybe even upper middle class! People that have less than me are extra fucked!
Capitalism is a hige goddamn failure for the people and massive success for the ultra rich who use it to siphon money and power for themselves and who tell poor people they’re lazy when they’re really just victims.