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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

because under capitalism getting a job is kinda difficult, painful process, so even many the 'voluntarily unemployed' may take up part time jobs if they had the chance and if it were provided for by the Government.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

true, i think many billionaires want such kind of power, but i think for now they prefer to influence Government policy, and many ways it works better, i.e. no corpo-wars.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 54 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)
[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

its much more lame, what state-like power does Musk have? None. All the corps in Cyberpunk have equivalent powers to nation-states, their own armies. McPolice and all.

i think closest to that irl currently is Palantir and some of the MIC Corps but they don't fight their own wars yet.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

At least 'Birthday Party' was kinda funny.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Reducing debt requires continuous Gov surpluses, who's going to pay for it? Not his class I'm sure.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They could've let the deficit rise, lower taxes on the rich but keep the already low SNAP, Medicaid. But nope, not bad enough.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why does it even matter? It's not like he has that much political power as a mayor. I will be happy to see basic socdem policies like free bus service, rent freezes, a few Government owned 'ration' stores.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea weird how it works. A Government deficit directly increases private profits especially when targeted towards those who don't (can't) save much. The capitalists prefer control over more profits sometimes.

It is true that profits would be higher under a regime of full employment than they are on the average under laissez-faire; and even the rise in wage rates resulting from the stronger bargaining power of the workers is less likely to reduce profits than to increase prices, and thus adversely affects only the rentier interests. But 'discipline in the factories' and 'political stability' are more appreciated than profits by business leaders. Their class instinct tells them that lasting full employment is unsound from their point of view, and that unemployment is an integral part of the 'normal' capitalist system.

https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf

Its not even full employment anymore but scraps of welfare for people who are already working at poverty wages in the private sector.

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I think it's relevant given the courts vs the executive situation in the U.S. currently.

 

Who will the Supreme Court side with? thonk

 

emergency-room

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https://x.com/BlackRedGuard1/status/1876458210074468476

other than the faux Arabic, the image goes hard.

 

Gulag for anyone doing this. Five years at least.

 

Posting kelly

 

Looks like the prisons have to be reopened

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