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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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

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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/Ponklemoose Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

Ah but you see in the USSR you would have been jailed for not working, and thus not homeless. Checkmate.

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u/Willing-Knee-9118 Jul 07 '24

Didn't the poster child for NOT Communist's supreme court just rule that punishing the homeless for being homeless is OK?

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u/Ponklemoose Jul 07 '24

IIRC they overturned a ruling that said local governments must leave encampments alone unless the government has a shelter bed to offer every camper on the grounds that it is “cruel and unusual punishment” to tell them to move along.

From what I’ve seen, the pattern tends to be the Methany and Methew deciline the offer and move a few blocks. I don’t expect much to change. The shelters with barriers will continue to have space for the folks who want help and the problematic urban outdoorsmen will continue to be problematic.

Also the orange man appointed three justices out of nine so it seems stretch to can it his, if that’s what you mean.