JodaUSA

JodaUSA t1_jebsebl wrote

I don't care about having a decent paying job, I care about making it by. I'm Gen Z, I'm under no stupid illusion that life in this country is supposed to be any shade of good.

And I don't see myself taking my own life. As far as I know, I'm the only sane person, and there would be a bit of loss for the state. /hj

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JodaUSA t1_jadjq94 wrote

It’s pretty simple. Private schools are all operated for profit, not for education. They, like all private companies exclusively care about their profits. It is simply in their best interest to profit more.

The aim of public schools is solely to educate. They cannot make a profit. They’re public assets. Yes, corrupt officials can steal public funds, but stealing public funds isn’t part of the schools business model; because public schools don’t have a business model.

As a result of this, funding private schools with public money is horrendously inefficient. It necessary would be. The two institutions have diametrically opposed aims.

This bill is good. It supports the efficient allocation of our resources. If you need more school options around you, fight for increasing the public school budget; not throwing that budget into a burning pit of money so some wealthy private school owner can steal it for themself.

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JodaUSA t1_ja5dgxt wrote

> if I was so offended by a sign

The sign in question is basically saying "You are not deserving of a roof over your head unless you pay me whatever I want".

These aren't "a landlord's objectionable view". These are a landlords god-complex being pushed into law.

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JodaUSA t1_ja5cw56 wrote

On the banking things, no, obviously its not a creator of wealth. Money != wealth. Our economy should be built to produce things with use value, as Marx termed it. That is, things derive material value from their utility. Money has no utility beyond exchange, which is not ultimately a necessary utility as we proved with the rationing system during the great depression.

In my view, the whole of the financial and property sectors are leeches that stand in the way of a more truly productive economy. They impose a completely unnecessary overhead on all economic activity (Property sale, interest, etc.) And all for what? The strengthening of a class of people who don't aid in the production of useful goods? Send all Landlords, bank owners, and shareholders to the farms and factories. Then they will actually contribute.

As for whether or not I expect my preferred world view to ever come to be, I see 3 possibilities for the future of our society:

  1. My world view comes to be, and the working class is empowered to run the world for their benefit.
  2. My world view does not come to be, and the Capitalist class is left to dominate. This results in two possibilities itself:
    1. The utter lack of regard that the Capitalist class has for the impending climate crisis leads to an era of constant strife and war over the new Water World's scarce resources.
    2. If somehow the Capitalist class is convinced to give a shit about the Poors drowning, they ultimately are forced into Fascism, the form capitalism takes when the contradictions within it are too glaring and inflamed for the working class to ignore them, and so violent state repression becomes necessary for the continuation of the Capitalist system.

So, I'm not entirely optimistic that my world view comes to pass, but I sure as hell hope it does, because Capitalism is entirely unsustainable.

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JodaUSA t1_j9ukn3u wrote

“she claims that “the evidence about gender affirming care is weak and mixed, at best.” “

I love lying to support my fucked up world view

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