I am not criticizing them, I’m just out of the loop.

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    Young people haven’t experienced life yet and think communist is something good, despite 100 years of absolute failures and hundreds of millions of people starving, getting killed for things such as wearing glasses, and sent to work to death in prisons for having a different opinion.

    Young people also over represent themselves on the transgender scale and don’t realize they aren’t actually special compared to the 7 billion people in the world, but like to feel special in their high school of 1,000 people.

    Young people comprise the vast majority of people on the fediverse.

    Young people will get a rude awakening once they find out they have to work for a living, provide to those they love and, once again, that their ‘identity’ doesn’t matter to anyone else.

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      Some people have experiences which have left them embittered towards a younger, more hopeful generation. Despite 100’s of years of exploitation, absolute failure, and hundreds of millions of people starving to death, getting killed for things such as not wanting to work weekends, and sent to work to death for having the absolute cajones to do what they need to do to provide for their loved ones, they STILL insist that capitalism is the only way forward because it’s the only thing they’ve ever known.

      The average human may not stand out amid 8 billion other people, but each and every person is unique and therefore special in their own way.

      Everyone wants to work, to do something, but no one wants to have a job because your worth as a human shouldn’t be tied to how much money you can earn for someone else. (And, inb4 “art is not a job”, that is so fucking disingenuous; if you think that art isn’t essential, then STOP listening to music, STOP watching television and movies, STOP reading books and newspapers, and then get back to me.) People naturally provide for those they care for and, news flash, people care about other people and their identities.

      I know you’re probably just trolling because you hate your life under capitalism and need to feel like you’re a part of something, but like join the club bro.

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      Do you think the people who built these platforms are teens? I’m a 27 yo engineer and Marxist through and through. Just because workers unions of the past were overturned by tyrants and capitalists alike, doesn’t mean the basic ideas weren’t sound. The system in which I am forced to participate in is fundamentally flawed.

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        Do you think the people who built these platforms are teens?

        I don’t know who created this platform, but I doubt they’re teens. The vast majority of users are young.

        Marxist through and through.

        Please educate yourself then. Marxism has only resulted in death and destruction. It has put countries back hundreds of years and have killed hundreds of millions of people.

        Just because workers unions of the past were overturned by tyrants and capitalists alike

        I’m pro union, and capitalist. Capitalism isn’t anti-union. Once again, please educate yourself. Advocating for marxism is 100x worse than advocating for nazism.

        The system in which I am forced to participate in is fundamentally flawed.

        Please move to a communist country and see what you’re forced to do.

        The only reason you’re an engineer is because you were allowed that choice. Under communism you would likely have been killed simply for being college educated.

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          Free market corporate capitalism as practiced in the West is absolutely anti-union. If you have another model to point to, feel free.

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            That’s not capitalism, that’s government not doing their job.

            Biden forced the railway workers to keep working despite the strike. Is that due to capitalism?

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                Absolutely it’s due to capitalism

                That’s your government not doing their job. And actively working against the workers.

                Blame big government that forces people to work at a non negotiated price, not capitalism.

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                    Capitlism is about the ability of selling your services to a willing party. It always has been, and always will.

                    If I want to stack boxes for $2 an hour, I have that right. If I want to stack boxes for $200 I have the right to make that right. Everyone has the ability to accept my offer, or deny it. Capitalism, baby.

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      I’m 49 and still socialist. Working for a living is the core of communism. Workers are more populous and generate all the value, we would like a larger share of the value we create.

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        Working for a living is the core of communism.

        totalitarianism is the core of communism.

        Workers are more populous and generate all the value

        Then negotiate, if you do create the value, then you can sell your services for more.

        we would like a larger share of the value we create.

        See above.