• JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Because most of them aspire to be one of the folks that collects the green segments from others. Even though they never will.

  • Lodra@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

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    It’s easy to understand how income and taxes affect my life. For many jobs, it’s very difficult to understand the value of my labor in a bigger picture.

    I think most people can’t think abstractly and thus struggle to see larger interactions like how money flows through an economy.

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    6 days ago

    Yeah and lole 99 percent of people will believe a fake statistic or bar graph

    You think it’s less exploitative under socialism? Have you ever met a victim of communism/socialism? I’ve met many