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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fuck China, and fuck the United States I live in. The nations of the Nordic region and a few other developed nations have my respect because they respect and value their citizenry. Their economy is a tool that is used to facilitate the distribution of goods and services for the benefit of their society and its citizens, what an economy is supposed to be, instead of doing it ass backwards as we do, hurting citizens to protect the beloved fucking economy and the growth/metastasis expectations of the owner class.

China/The US/Russia are the world leaders in exporting the notion that their citizens should be exploited to stoke the growth of the economy for the benefit of their respective elites. Whoever wins, their people lose.

Why should I go rah rah America when most stakeholders in our society are not meaningful institutional shareholders in the value society produces?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

It shouldn't be about saying simon says or coming out of a rich vagina or if not making perfect economic decisions and kissing ass from age 18, begging to be included and killing yourself for masters who were born into wealth for a small chance of being included in the prosperity of the prosperous nation you're supposedly a member of.

And don't you just love the class traitors here that come out to celebrate the failures of citizens who tried? oh you took out student loans in a subject that in hindsight didn't pay dividends, haha loser. Oh you just started working and didnt get an education and are stuck in the underclass, haha loser. That's what it means to be an American, rooting against one another as the owner class laughs.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Those nordic countries are suported by a global network of unequal exchange

[–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm someone still recovering from republican/libertarian capitalist brainwashing. Would you know of a good book or two on this subject? It's fascinating to me.

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like on which topic? Capitalist critiques, options for a better society, inequality?

[–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (easy) A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey (medium)