I do firmly believe that Capitalism is a bad system for everyone, including the capitalists themselves. They forsake their humanity and get nothing out of it.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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You could tally all the miseries it took to earn that man his opulent hermitage. Parents forced to leave their kids unsupervised, workplace injuries, deaths, the goddamned Pinkertons. You could tally all the moans and screams and wails that buy him quiet solitude.
The great nothing they do with all this misery
truly wealth is wasted on the rich
Funny thing about the "paperclip maximiser" AI ghost story was that it's just these guys. But the people afraid of AI aren't really interested in confronting an actual loss of control to a system, with its perfect flesh avatars like Rockefeller.
Empty miserable husks, literal sockpuppets for the egregore version of a slime mold
It brings me some pleasure that their lives are so incredibly shallow. At least I can find comraderie and love in struggle.
Granted it only validates my predisposed disposition that they are antisocial monsters
Struggle is the only thing that truly gives life meaning in the first place. It is no surprise that those who create a system for their own benefit where they are able to avoid struggle become less than human.
Nah, this is fascist thinking.
For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.
The communist project is ultimately about creating a world where, to a large extent, people do not have to struggle. Reducing necessary labor through mechanization and eliminating the theft of surplus value, achieving global peace by overthrowing the bourgeoise who profit from wars, guaranteeing everybody the necessities of existence. The problem with the ultra-rich isn't that they've made struggle unnecessary for themselves, it's that they've done it at the expense of everyone else.
What is labor itself, life's prime want, but a series of minor struggles?
Good point. I misunderstood what you meant by struggle.
ngl sounds comfy as fuck. I wish I could do that
Yeah this is just my life, except I have a day job instead of grinding the poor into dust for a living
Loves to see his dividends come in, maybe he should have been divided and ended(in minecraft) 
Can I borrow someone's time machine to introduce him to the wonders of Tetris?