Post #3466876

2026-06-29 08:08 UTC

I love this quote. It highlights the absurdity at the heart of our society. Under capitalism, it's very normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich, not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane. #Socialism #Capitalism #WealthInequality

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@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz 2026-06-29 10:52

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot Reminded me of a post I saw a few weeks ago: "if we put a litre of poison into a billionaire's pool, that's a crime. If they put hundreds of gallons of poison into our drinking water, that's just the cost of doing business."

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@AlexanderKingsbury@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 08:36

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot Yes, it's super easy to use lies to push pretty much any agenda. Do children ever go hungry under #socialism? Or #communism?

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to 2026-06-29 12:43

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot Children go hungry under non capitalist systems, far as I know if you credit capitalism with the introduction of widespread vaccines and antibiotics, then capitalism has saved more children then anything else in human history iirc, before antibiotics and vaccines, half of all children died before the age of 12 :)

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@Black_Flag@beige.party 2026-06-29 12:54

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot Someone tell Elan Mosk that such thinking is the real mind virus.

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