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[-] rah@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

argument against socialism/communism

I'm not arguing against socialism/communism, I'm arguing against the first paragraph in the meme you posted.

If you think you are 'left'

I don't.

The capitalists and bosses want workers to be in competition with each other, not in solidarity (think union organizing).

You have bad ideology in your brain due to living in the world of neoliberal capitalism, it has instructed you on how to understand the world.

This is faulty logic. The fact that an understanding of the world includes benefits to capitalists and bosses doesn't imply that the understanding of the world either (1) is incorrect or (2) came through their instruction. You've shown neither of those to be true.

I appreciate it is painful to acknowledge that bosses exploit workers and that one can find comfort imagining that the exploitation is due to factors which can be altered but wishing it to be so doesn't make it so.

the workers that lack solidarity (as you claim), are specifically incentivized to think in this way by their boss under capitalism

Their boss may well give them an incentive not to cooperate but that doesn't mean there aren't other, much more primal forces pushing towards the same end. Looking at the behaviour of workers and all humans for that matter, they don't seem to need any encouragement in order to step on each other.

[-] rah@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago

like a good :LIB:

keep feeding your ![brainworms]

Again, no idea what you're talking about.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

your deflection

LOL you've confused me for someone who cares what you think of me.

entirely self-serving if you are not of the working class

otherwise you're just another temporarily embarrassed millionaire

I've no idea what you're rambling on about.

you will bootstrap yourself to the ruling class

Not likely.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

class traitor

LOL

[-] rah@feddit.uk -2 points 1 year ago

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer

So are fellow labourers.

This isn't "capital", this is just humans.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

That is pretty much exactly the goal of the Wikimedia Foundation

Their goal isn't to collect all human knowledge, only notable human knowledge.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information .

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

you do not ever need to see or interact with your neighbors

I'm not sure why you're trying to tell me this. I've got my own experience living in apartments and having neighbours.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I have experience none of these in the cities

I grew up in a house in a city with a garden with a lawn which had to be regularly mowed with a lawnmower. We don't have "HOA"s in our country.

Also there are in general lawn mowing and leaf blowing are much more moderate in city, because they know they are surrounded by people.

Wow. Your country is very different from my country.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see why you would expect an absense of these things in a city?

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I don't care how much they do, I care about how close they all are to me while they do it.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know about that. I don't live in America and I've never lived in suburbs. I have lived in flats (apartments) and in dense areas.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

This isn't a particularly convincing analogy.

I think you replied in the wrong place? I didn't give an analogy.

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