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Cake day: April 24th, 2024

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  • That’s why its the system that needs to be killed, not billionaires. It doesn’t matter if you are good or bad, capitalism is in part a system of forced competition. A CEO who doesn’t make the hard calls for the benefit of stockholders will be replaced if he is caught choosing his moral compunctions over profits. A competitor will exploit what he might refuse to, and thus the harm is done and the “good CEO” is drummed out of the system. The only way for a CEO to remain good and a CEO is to never be tested by the markets mad search for profits. This is possible in a small way, like maybe a CEO of a small regional firm which will eventually be bought out or forced out of business. Hell, most of the strictly “moral” repercussions of an executive are hidden from them, and appear only as columns in a profit/loss report. Capitalism alienates us all from the world we inhabit, our humanity and our selves; worker and owner alike.

    But regardless of this, the class interests of ceos and employees are in direct conflict. This doesn’t mean we need to kill, but we will have to fight to crush their way of life which exists as a result of the mass exploitation and immiseration of millions.


  • George Soros is not a good billionaire. The right wing delusion of him is such a convenient smokescreen for all of the actually horrible global conditions he’s helped give birth to and gotten rich from, that I wonder if he doesn’t perpetuate it himself. He’s basically the final boss of neocolonialism, but because noone will teach you what neocolonialism is and how capitalism violently extracts cheap hyper-exploited labor and natural resources from the third world which amount to super profits for the billionaire class, most people don’t see how bad he is.



  • Communism could not be implemented properly, without first moving through socialism, that is, worker control and collective ownership of their productive workplace, but all over the world. A radical social transformation, international in scope, in which we can begin to assess human need and begin to distribute based on it, democratic from top to bottom.

    But the ruling class won’t just give over control it has to be taken, with collective power.



  • Its fascinating to see the post under it, there’s some class collaborationism at work. I always find it interesting when people from the upper classes or ruling class take on like worker affectations, like cowboy hats or trucks; and when people from a working class or educated middle class, who is exploited but still sees collaboration with the ruling class as a means to their own success, because believe me “Real Estate Negotiation Expert” is an aspirational job title, kiss ass or signal that they can be relied on to step on and over their peers.

    The aspirational middle manager who jumps in the comments for a CEO getting Adventuretime’d offering “deepest condolences”, as well as offering the same sympathy to a victim of their own class in the event of a tragedy, is the rarest butterfly of all.