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[–] goldenlocks@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Communists are the only way to solve that wealth inequality

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

God that would be a depressing thought. Thankfully, a tankie’s idea of communism is in fact not the only solution, we need only look at democratic socialist countries like Denmark.

I think it’s fine for people to be rich. I don’t think it’s fine for that to be at the expense of the poor to such a ridiculous magnitude that the wealth has long become moot for that individual’s quality of life:

[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we need only look at democratic socialist countries like Denmark

Sure helps when Europe benefits from literally trillions of dollars a year in net extraction from the global south

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

[–] co209@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the sauce! The Nordic argument gets used far too often by center-leftists in the core imperial countries because they already assume a level of available wealth which can only be sustained by the exploitation of the colonized rest of the world.

The greed of the rich will never be sated. They may retreat or bide their time but they will come back for more, until they have sucked every drop of your blood.

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