A fan made this image of my tweet and I appreciate it.
That said Monopoly was kind of designed to show you how miserable and shitty capitalism is.
So long as you’re not a sore loser, it’s a lot of fun!
Ok I’m kidding. But seriously winning is fun. Both in monopoly and capitalism.
Yes, winning a game in a rigged system where your birth drastically effects the amount of money you start with is super fucking fun for the people whose lives are built on the backs of the workers.
Play the cards in your hand, whatever they are
Oh look I got revolution, all bourgois players must either submit all their property for redistribution or go immediately to the gulag.
Do not pass go. Do not receive 200 dollars.
Redistribution? Are you high? You can have one property and I’ll write it off as a donation deduction.
Gulag.
401K
Liquidated.
You don’t need to be so angry at rich people. Taking their money won’t solve whatever problems you’re dealing with.
Actually my problem is the unequal distribution of wealth, so it would in fact, solve all of my problems.
That’s ridiculous thinking. My life would also be so much easier if I just took what I wanted from other people. But I’m not going to do that because, hear me out, it’s not mine to take.
The wealth of the capitalist class is stolen goods, I merely advocate returning it to its rightful owners (the workers who produced it)
How can you generalize a whole class of people like that? Sold goods are not stolen goods. The factory workers who make and sell leather aren’t entitled to the money the CEO of Nike earns for selling sneakers.
Capital is literally money used to make more money without work. The greatest fortunes are all the result of capital accumulation and not their owner’s work, but the financial manipulations of the capitalist class and theft from the workers. Ownership as it currently works is theft.
Like I’m not generalizing “stealing a part of value created using a definition of ownership created to benefit them” is literally how capitalist is defined. That is the definition of the capitalist class. Like would it be generalizing to say “burglars steal?” because that is by definition what a burglar does, a capitalist by definition is a thief.
Money makes money, that’s the whole point. Investments are neither manipulation nor theft. That’s quite an assumption to say every wealthy person’s fortune was not the result of hard work.
…one can work three jobs under capitalism and live under the poverty line, one can never have worked a day in ones life and be richer than god, how is that fair? and investments are inherently theft, where do you think the money they make comes from? It’s a percentage of someone else’s work.
Also how do you not see that in a system where money gets its owner more money that wealth tends to accumulate more and more with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population, leaving everyone else to starve?
So you want to take money from people you think are taking money from other people? Poor people are not inherently better just like wealthy people are not inherently bad. If you’re feeling underpaid, talk to your employer. Trying to get a rich guy to just give you money because he has it and you don’t isn’t the right answer.
“Life isn’t fair” -lesson we learned in preschool
I actually earn quite a nice living, I’m from a wealthy family (which even though the family money won’t support another generation has allowed me a lot of the comforts I do have). I don’t want money for myself, I want the money given to the people who earned it in the first place. I want this because the rich guy has rigged the system in his favor. I have seen the other side of this, I come from there and I have to say, the people who manage to get rich or stay rich in this world? Most of them are bad people because this system rewards ruthlessness, theft, and complete disregard for the well being of others.
We can make life fair, we as humans can change the societies we live in. Capitalism is not the first economic system to exist and it will not be the last, societies can be structured in a myriad of ways, some more fair and some less and all you can do is repeat your little truism with nothing to back it up.
Ok so rich people have it easier and that makes you mad. I mean, that’s fine and all, but for someone who wants universal equality, you’re awfully judgmental.
Instead of bringing the two sides together, you want to point the gun at the opposing side and then expect them to play ball.
Like I said, I’m from there, I have it very fucking easy I’m saying “hey, we 3 people have hoarded all the balls and the other 50 people on the playground are looking pissed, I think this is shitty and when everyone else decides to take back some balls for themselves I’m siding with them”. Like I’ve been able to establish myself in ways almost no one in my generation can because of family money, and we’re not even major money, I’m saying I’ve seen both sides up close. I’m saying the capitalist class has a gun called hunger to the head of the proletariat already.
. I’m saying unless you come from there the degree of class segregation in this country is such that you’ve never seen what “rich” looks like, it’s not the guy you know with with the nicest car it is power and influence beyond anything you can imagine
That’s what I meant by bringing people together, the wealthy should want to give back or share wealth. Taking it won’t solve the problem of poverty or unequal distribution.
It’s a shame to hear your family earned fortune the wrong way instead of working to provide for the next generation. In my experience, people want to create the best life for their children; if that means paying for their education, getting them a good job, or passing down a house for them to live in, I don’t see how that makes their wealth unimportant or less valuable.
I’m not talking about individuals, I’m talking about the system. The issue is not how my parents handled their money, they made sure to keep as much as they could left in the trust, paid for our education, helped me buy a house. My life is much easier because of my parents. That said my parents didn’t earn any of that money, my father has not worked a day in his life since a summer job when he was 16. They’re not bad people, but this system is broken, and no the rich aren’t just going to decide to “play nice” because that is not how this system works.
I just don’t particularly feel angry at people who have never worked and have money. Why does it matter to you that every single person works? Who cares.
I don’t think every single person should work, I think however that people working 80 hours a week and still being unable to afford rent while others can have vast houses and do nothing is indicative of a flawed system. I’m not mad at the people, I’m mad at the system that creates this situation.
If you can’t see this as anything more than a personal vendetta you’re never going to understand what I’m saying I’m saying that this system immeasurably benefits the few while harming the many, and it is time to change that system.
This is not about anger at the rich, this is about creating a functional and sustainable economy, and some very powerful people are absolutely going to resist that change. Do you think that democracy was won by asking nicely? No, it was won through revolutions, collective action, and yes violence.
Do you think it was wrong for people in France to depose their king and take his lands because it “wasn’t theirs to take” even though his policies had lead to massive famine throughout his country? Do you seriously believe that Medieval peasants were wrong when they rebelled against lords who “owned” all the land. How do you think land came to be owned?
Well I don’t agree with you. I’d prefer capitalism over communism any day.
You don’t even know what communism is, you’re probably thinking of Stalinism, which is probably best described as state capitalism and it’s shitty. Also Communism and Capitalism are not the only possible options, there’s anarchism, syndicalism, socialism, and a vast number of other possible ways of handling ownership, government and production. There’s also old stuff like Feudalism, Mercantilism, and a bunch of other weird crap.
No one has ever claimed to have achieved communism, because communism is a stateless, post-scarcity society
No thank you.
You’re either trolling or you really do have no idea what I’m actually talking about and about and absolutely refuse to learn.
You’re like a kid looking at a plate of grapes and going “I HATE THEM!” when you’ve never even tried one. That is literally your level of discourse
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 