To pick out this one CIA mistake (if true) is absurd. The USSR and its satellite states were brutal dictatorships: no free speech, a crooked judicial/ state security and police system, no free press, no freedom of travel, no free elections. The upper casts made sure they had all the bananas and luxury items from the west. I visited some of those states; I was always glad to travel home; I knew and visited many friends in the DDR, and they weren’t happy, longing for freedom. Life was extremely drab and suppressive. I also knew several colleagues personally who attempted to leave (DDR, Rumania, Albania, …), they were punished psychologically and physically in the most brutal way. Let’s not invent a new narrative, inform yourself about the truth of “socialism”. (Having said that, I regard myself as a social democrat - that’s a completely different political philosophy. Built on Marx’s ideas, it is still in favor of a free market, yet seeks a more fair distribution of funds).
Ultimately though, the greed of capitalism is what bothers people more than anything but greedy thinking is how you make money. The one thing no one can seem to do in this country (US) is not being able to do something without the, “what’s in it for me,” mindset BUT!!! that’s because people want compensation for their time, effort and labor and thus isn’t greed but wanting fair pay for their time. We’ve hit the point where labor and wages don’t make sense to the common worker while the 90k$ and up earners aren’t doing so bad.
That’s not saying the lower wage workers don’t deserve fair pay but at the same time certain jobs have more societal importance and comparing a grocery bagger to a radiologist, it’s like you’re out of your minds if you think a bagger deserves as much of a pay as the person looking inside your body.
So then we look at the other bigger picture which is college tuition so people go the other way around with certifications but then people have to put in field training and labor and get the internship out of the way.
I love capitalism and hate it at the same time I really do! But I also really don’t think I could live in anything else.
Influencer culture wouldn’t be what it is today without capitalism and the spearheading of monetization.
Anything you do: “for the hustle,” is you working with capitalism. Any influencer side shop where they’re the sole creators and using a dropshipping service, you’re enjoying capitalism.
Captialsim is the most under-described socioeconomic-political system ever!!! When you’re a kid they always used to go: Work hard, Play hard but they don’t underscore that greed behind it the fact that at some point in your life you WILL not you might BUT WILL say: What’s in it for me? And that right there is how you make money and that’s capitalism.
That’s the freezing cold, dirty, truth of capitalism: What’s in it for me? - runs society.
The West which barely fought in WW2 and joined the Nazis was better off than the USSR which was ravaged by the Nazis? Along with the USSR combatting large scale CIA psyop campaigns we know existed?
Did you try asking the people in Western colonies how awesome their freedom was too?
To pick out this one CIA mistake (if true) is absurd. The USSR and its satellite states were brutal dictatorships: no free speech, a crooked judicial/ state security and police system, no free press, no freedom of travel, no free elections. The upper casts made sure they had all the bananas and luxury items from the west. I visited some of those states; I was always glad to travel home; I knew and visited many friends in the DDR, and they weren’t happy, longing for freedom. Life was extremely drab and suppressive. I also knew several colleagues personally who attempted to leave (DDR, Rumania, Albania, …), they were punished psychologically and physically in the most brutal way. Let’s not invent a new narrative, inform yourself about the truth of “socialism”. (Having said that, I regard myself as a social democrat - that’s a completely different political philosophy. Built on Marx’s ideas, it is still in favor of a free market, yet seeks a more fair distribution of funds).
Ultimately though, the greed of capitalism is what bothers people more than anything but greedy thinking is how you make money. The one thing no one can seem to do in this country (US) is not being able to do something without the, “what’s in it for me,” mindset BUT!!! that’s because people want compensation for their time, effort and labor and thus isn’t greed but wanting fair pay for their time. We’ve hit the point where labor and wages don’t make sense to the common worker while the 90k$ and up earners aren’t doing so bad.
That’s not saying the lower wage workers don’t deserve fair pay but at the same time certain jobs have more societal importance and comparing a grocery bagger to a radiologist, it’s like you’re out of your minds if you think a bagger deserves as much of a pay as the person looking inside your body.
So then we look at the other bigger picture which is college tuition so people go the other way around with certifications but then people have to put in field training and labor and get the internship out of the way.
I love capitalism and hate it at the same time I really do! But I also really don’t think I could live in anything else.
Influencer culture wouldn’t be what it is today without capitalism and the spearheading of monetization.
Anything you do: “for the hustle,” is you working with capitalism. Any influencer side shop where they’re the sole creators and using a dropshipping service, you’re enjoying capitalism.
Captialsim is the most under-described socioeconomic-political system ever!!! When you’re a kid they always used to go: Work hard, Play hard but they don’t underscore that greed behind it the fact that at some point in your life you WILL not you might BUT WILL say: What’s in it for me? And that right there is how you make money and that’s capitalism.
That’s the freezing cold, dirty, truth of capitalism: What’s in it for me? - runs society.
The West which barely fought in WW2 and joined the Nazis was better off than the USSR which was ravaged by the Nazis? Along with the USSR combatting large scale CIA psyop campaigns we know existed?
Did you try asking the people in Western colonies how awesome their freedom was too?
Same as currently in the United States of Trump, apart of its almost worst foodquality world wide.
Socialism and Communism != USSR/Warsaw Pact countries btw