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Isn't capitalism great? (lemmy.world)

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[+] [email protected] -25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I kinda hate this pic.

There are worse fates than living in the suburbs, lol, what? If the experience seems bland remember it's not an infrastructure 'problem' but a demographics one. And bland beats ghetto -> warzone.
You can easily opt out of consumerism, they haven't made it illegal yet! Of course, if your life has mostly just consisted of 'going from little kids' toys to bigger boi toys', that's vacuous and depressing but, again, it's a personal decision.
Car-centric cities and infrastructure is a result of greed and bribes. An argument can be made that capitalist societies more easily push people into antisocial selfishness though, of course.
Retirement homes are, again, a 'skill issue' that's very prevalent in certain well known communities and almost nonexistent everywhere else. Raise and love your kids and be family oriented and one of them will take care of you (as it happened to my grandma, and it'll happen to my mom and MIL, and I assume, God willing, to my wife after my passing). Again, I don't know how much of this behaviour can be ascribed to capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are worse fates than living in the suburbs

Not for the bees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a very real concern, you're right. Muad'dib, Muad'dib!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, there's no way I'll be able to provide for my parents. I'm broke and the economy isn't going to get better until the communists dismantle the government. They're going to be rotting in the old folks home using up the retirement savings they're lucky enough to have. We don't have those these days.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In my country, one of the children houses them (usually just the remaining one, which in my family and maybe in general happens to be the mom) and the others pool resources to contribute. Sometimes a nurse comes. It has to be cheaper than retirement homes, right? Idk, and it's not an easy convo to have even just between us if you have a good relationship with your parents cause reality can be cruel... but if you don't and it's deserved then I guess that's life!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Car companies wouldn't have bribed the government to increase car use if there was no money for them to get by selling cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bribes are not a function of capitalism though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The profit motive is a function of capitalism. Why would an anarcho-communist car manufacturing collective want to bribe the government to make people use more cars? There's no reason.