Fascists when 30% of their wage goes to the people who did no work beyond having wealth concentrated into their hands through centuries of exploitation, then hoard it on a remote island bank account lest a penny of it end up even filling a pothole: 🥹❤️

Fascists when 20% of their wage is taken by the state, split into a thousand tiny little pots, and then laundered through an organisation of other fascists who get off on sending people to an early grave (they approved £30/week to someone who might be capable of a nonexistent desk job): 🤬🤬🤬🤬 8️⃣8️⃣⚡⚡

If you throw in a bunch of financial capital that the hypothetical person in question subsists on, all of a sudden these same people will rush to their defense, saying that what they “do” is “economically valuable”, even if it’s a “healthy individual with no disabilities who lives in their parents’ house”. Add an abstract concept of owning capital, to the same situation of not engaging in any waged or salaried labor, and they’ll trip over themselves to justify it.

The level to which Western workers are brainwashed into punching down is unsettling. Just in the past few years I’ve worked at 3 jobs where I’ve observed workers, earning close to minimum wage, getting unreasonably mad or indignant at other minimum wage workers not working as fast or as efficiently. Never mind that the company makes $300k per full-time labor equivalent.

I always reply with “I don’t give a shit about anyone who’s barely getting by, they’re not the problem”. The problem is with those who stuff themselves! (where are our Mélenchon emotes)

We know who the detrimentally lazy ones are and we should always be pointing the finger.

That argument always gives me vibes of “but I’ve had to go through corporeal punishment when I was a kid, it’s not fair that children now should have it easier”.

“Things were bad for me and I still made it, I don’t want it to be easier for other people or it makes all I’ve gone through feel worthless”

Your money is already going going to assholes who don’t need to do shit because they just happen to own the company you work at. Why be mad if that money was spread around to people who actually need it instead of just going to a few billionaires? You hate people you consider “lazy” enough that you think they should starve and that it’s not worth helping anyone else if it means helping ONE “lazy” person?

Tell them that you fully agree, and that’s why you want to abolish capitalism and follow a model like that of the Soviet Union, where unemployment was abolished and every able-bodied person worked, and the average time spent looking for a job after losing one was 2 weeks. Tell them that there was no unemployed in pre-agrarian societies or in feudalism, that unemployment is just a byproduct of capitalism and that people inherently want to contribute to society, and that’s why we want a collaborative society with guaranteed employment for everyone.

“Yes and”

Unproductive members of society should be removed. CEOs add nothing if value. Sales people. Bankers. Politicans. Landlords. Middle Men. Car dealerships.

Instagram influences at least add beauty. CEOs just leach off the hard work of others. If they didn’t show up to work we’d still do our jobs. If the janitorial doesn’t show up how long can you work with dirty bathrooms?

From there you can doubble down. A man is entitled to the sweat of his brow no? So an investor that doesn’t actually work is owed none of the profits.

I think the USSR used to just give you a job, shelter, medical care and support but they did expect you to work barring disabilities that prevented you from doing so.

These posts and comments as you’ve presented them are just general misanthropy hidden behind assigning social worth to labor to wages, a rant on their learned helplessness to the sentiment of : why don’t I receive help? Why is my life so hard?. It is the cry of the alienated capitalist subject.

Able to work, able to get hired, and able to make ends meet are different things. Lots of people want to work, but can’t find a job, let alone one that will fully support them.

You know who works really hard? Cleaners, food delivery drivers and other people who are the most exploited by this system.

Are they rich?

For the libs a utilitarian counter to this would be “because not providing support will give you crime instead”.

And then you put them in prison and you’re now paying significantly more for them than if you’d had benefits and systems in place to get them back into work more gently.

The current system got to this point by slow evolution from significantly less support because this is more cost efficient than what existed before.

Have you suffered enough to justify your existence today?

me when the value produced by my labor goes to non-working poors:

me when the value produced by my labor goes to my lazy, parasitic boss:

laziness isnt even real. capitalism has tricked humans into thinking wanting to chill like every other animal is always doing is bad. why? because it doesnt make some rich dude more money

Capitalists are the “laziest” people in human history, and if those people don’t like being taxed wait until they hear about surplus value