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post 10000250146 14 hours ago, 01:06 PM
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America has become modern day feudal serfdom

The top 10% rule over the 90%. They will work having crap food to survive and access to the internet to salt away the time when they aren't working. While the peasants work the 10% will be concocting varies ways to tighten the screws and extract more wealth/labor...and ways to market those ideas as being helpful to the 90% so they at least keep some glimmer of hope.

If the 90% stay the course and are dutiful they can "retire" at 70-75 and maybe scratch together a living where paying for medical care is their biggest worry.
post 10000250147 14 hours ago, 01:07 PM
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I'm starting to believe that even serfs had more meaningful lives than this modern hell.
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post 10000250150 14 hours ago, 01:09 PM
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Equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

The money's out there waiting for you. You pick it up, it's yours. You don't, I got no sympathy for you.
post 10000250154 13 hours ago, 01:10 PM
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Is there anything that can be done, OP?
post 10000250155 13 hours ago, 01:10 PM
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The relationship between the institution of America and the population of America is absolutely parasitic.

At least there are illusions of freedom though.

Being an average laborer in India or China for example would be a nightmare.

So when it comes to modern slavery, Americans did get “lucky” by comparison.

Everyone in the work force everywhere across the globe deserves a higher standard of living than what they have. They do all the things and get scraps for it.
“The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.“

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post 10000250157 13 hours ago, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted By BigGuyForYou⏩
I'm starting to believe that even serfs had more meaningful lives than this modern hell.
work, work, work, worry about surviving, scroll the psychologically manipulative algorithm drug designed to extract more wealth. rinse, wash, repeat
post 10000250158 13 hours ago, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted By SAND⏩
Is there anything that can be done, OP?
Stop participating but that shit won’t happen.
“The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.“

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post 10000250162 13 hours ago, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted By SAND⏩
Is there anything that can be done, OP?
i do wonder if any system of governing humans can ultimately prevent the long process of resources being funneled to the top.
post 10000250163 13 hours ago, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
Stop participating but that shit won’t happen.
Stop participating in what sense?

You mean like live in the woods?
post 10000250165 13 hours ago, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
The relationship between the institution of America and the population of America is absolutely parasitic.

At least there are illusions of freedom though.

Being an average laborer in India or China for example would be a nightmare.

So when it comes to modern slavery, Americans did get “lucky” by comparison.

Everyone in the work force everywhere across the globe deserves a higher standard of living than what they have. They do all the things and get scraps for it.
Yeah and tells u why they want to import millions of africans and indians. they need a class of people who are smart enough to run the farm but not smart enough to get a clue or rebel and ask for worker rights etc
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post 10000250174 13 hours ago, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted By SAND⏩
Stop participating in what sense?

You mean like live in the woods?
It needs to be done on a community level. Communities work together to develop life sustaining systems. Break the psychological dependency on the systems that keep us comfortable and reliant.

Communities need to stop shipping the fruits of their labor to billionaires, and use it for their own development and sustainment.

But this will not happen.
“The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.“

PS: Don't eat poop, just don't let the idea of it stop you from living life to its fullest.
post 10000250177 13 hours ago, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted By Jughead96⏩
Yeah and tells u why they want to import millions of africans and indians. they need a class of people who are smart enough to run the farm but not smart enough to get a clue or rebel and ask for worker rights etc
can also use these people to bring down the standards of the natives. be happy with your lot on life kevin because abdullah will gladly take your spot.
post 10000250181 13 hours ago, 01:17 PM
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i see everyone doing well. restaurants and grocery stores packed, malls packed with people carrying bags and bags of lux goods, expensive $50K+ cars all over the road, luxury vacations, and people living in $500K+ homes. even the Astronauts are living large.

the standard of living has gone up drastically for everyone year after year thanks to CAPITALISM.

you don't know how good you have it.

you're fucking off on a internet forum with your belly full of Goysl0p, a nice car and home/apt when your ancestors were starving and doing hard labor living in shacks, frightened by War and the Depression and trying to survive.
post 10000250184 13 hours ago, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted By edwardhaskell⏩
can also use these people to bring down the standards of the natives. be happy with your lot on life kevin because abdullah will gladly take your spot.
thats why u move out in the fucking woods. if i cant be around white people i will be around nobody. period. i will NOT accept living next to indians and pakis
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post 10000250185 13 hours ago, 01:18 PM
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post 10000250191 13 hours ago, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted By GordonXXX⏩
i see everyone doing well. restaurants and grocery stores packed, malls packed with people carrying bags and bags of lux goods, expensive $50K+ cars all over the road, luxury vacations, and people living in $500K+ homes.
a lot of which is escapism on a mass scale funded by debt funneled to the top for profit.
post 10000250195 13 hours ago, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
It needs to be done on a community level. Communities work together to develop life sustaining systems. Break the psychological dependency on the systems that keep us comfortable and reliant.

Communities need to stop shipping the fruits of their labor to billionaires, and use it for their own development and sustainment.

But this will not happen.
But if you have numerous small communities, arent they eventually going to fight each other over turf? And then you have a technological arms race and bureaucracies that create social classes etc?

Isnt that how society began in the first place?

So maybe this is just inevitable.
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Originally Posted By GordonXXX⏩
i see everyone doing well. restaurants and grocery stores packed, malls packed with people carrying bags and bags of lux goods, expensive $50K+ cars all over the road, luxury vacations, and people living in $500K+ homes. even the Astronauts are living large.

the standard of living has gone up drastically for everyone year after year thanks to CAPITALISM.

you don't know how good you have it.
im guessing most of those ppl ur seeing are indebted.thats not real wealth
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post 10000250202 13 hours ago, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted By edwardhaskell⏩
a lot of which is escapism on a mass scale funded by debt funneled to the top for profit.
Originally Posted By Jughead96⏩
im guessing most of those ppl ur seeing are indebted.thats not real wealth
been hearing this debt myth for the last 30 years.

lots of people out there make good money.
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Originally Posted By GordonXXX⏩
been hearing this debt myth for the last 30 years.
car salesman comes to mind.
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post 10000250232 13 hours ago, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted By SAND⏩
But if you have numerous small communities, arent they eventually going to fight each other over turf? And then you have a technological arms race and bureaucracies that create social classes etc?

Isnt that how society began in the first place?

So maybe this is just inevitable.
It’s only inevitable because reasonable men appease neurotic ego driven assholes.

There is no reason to expand or fight over turf.

The scarcity/competitive mindset that plagues humanity is like 99% deliberate fear based programming perpetrated by the institution.

There actually are enough resources to support ourselves.
“The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.“

PS: Don't eat poop, just don't let the idea of it stop you from living life to its fullest.
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that's why you got to consoom as little as possible
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