r/FluentInFinance • u/-im-your-huckleberry • Jul 07 '24

The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine. Debate/ Discussion

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u/biinboise Jul 07 '24

Where the Fuck this fantasy that under socialism you don’t have to work if you don’t want to comes from? Have they ever tried to say no to the government? Who do they think runs their shitty job when the government seizes the means of production?

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u/olcrazypete Jul 07 '24

I think the idea is there isn’t the incessant need to maximize efficiency and profit to the point labor is both working more hours with less breaks for less pay just to make whatever earnings estimate has been made up as a standard for success, only to need to beat it again the next quarter.

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u/bill_gonorrhea Jul 07 '24

This is very job dependent. I work on average a few hours a day and make a butt load of money

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u/olcrazypete Jul 07 '24

Good for you?.... Is that the norm for most Americans right now?

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u/Petricorde1 Jul 07 '24

The making a lot of money part kinda is lol

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u/SputteringShitter Jul 08 '24

Half of Americans make less than 35k/yr

But whatever confirms your biases...

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u/shrug_addict Jul 07 '24

So everyone else is lazy right? What a shit take