• JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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    Because most of them aspire to be one of the folks that collects the green segments from others. Even though they never will.

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    Visibility

    It’s easy to understand how income and taxes affect my life. For many jobs, it’s very difficult to understand the value of my labor in a bigger picture.

    I think most people can’t think abstractly and thus struggle to see larger interactions like how money flows through an economy.

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    Yeah and lole 99 percent of people will believe a fake statistic or bar graph

    You think it’s less exploitative under socialism? Have you ever met a victim of communism/socialism? I’ve met many

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      Yes, without a bourgeois class focusing production on personal accumulation and instead directing production towards fulfilling the needs of the people, there is less exploitation.

      What do you mean a “victim of Communism?” Someone who has lived in AES countries? Lol.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          I’m pro communism and I literally did. I love how you immediately accuse people of lying when their experience doesn’t match what you want to hear.

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            the guy is now saying you’re a liar lmfao, this cannot be real

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              This is the typical reaction you get from these types. They just assume that nobody could’ve possibly liked living in a place like USSR, and if somebody say otherwise the only explanation is they’re lying.

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          funny how you deny someone’s experience when it doesn’t suit your convenience.

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          A canadian telling a Communist that lived in the USSR that they didn’t, lmao.

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                That was the one at the top of the list, so I selected it since it didn’t seem to matter.

                But for that matter, you are aware there exist folks of different nationalities in Canada?

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                  It matters enough to significantly alter your local and all feeds, at least.

                  I am of course aware that different nationalities exist in Canada, they are still Canadian. That’s a goofy point to make. Almost as goofy as telling a former resident of the USSR that they aren’t just because they have a positive opinion of it.

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      Who? And what has socialism and communism done to them?