No, I actually do want some of these. I think housing should be a right, not a privilege. Basic universal income is going to be very important when suddenly AI takes half of our blue-collar jobs bcz rich assholes think they can get by without workers. And actually, I do want corporations to be unprofitable. They’re currently profiting off the backs of their employees labor, and i think that should belong to the employees.
I’m not opposed to corporations being profitable. I just want those corporations to be worker-owned
I don’t disagree, and everything should be clean energy etc. but, y’know. First things first. Save Democracy, Constitutional right of women to their own bodies, tax billionaires, and such. We’ll meet back here afterwards for next steps
I agree, sort of.
Housing should sort of be like UBI, where there should be a basic apartment block or section of smaller homes for families to fall back on. These tend to be pretty dangerous places though, no body “wants” to live there. If anyone thinks that they have a “right” to a house in any neighborhood that they want, they are unrealistic. Demand and availability is real, there is no world in which people are guaranteed a nice home, with a nice yard, in a nice part of town.
UBI should absolutely be a thing for everyone.
Companies need to generate more than their overhead, or they can’t pay their workers. If they are not profitable, they can not grow, if they can not grow, then their only outcome overtime is to shutdown. Why would anyone ever want to risk everything to start a new business then?
I’m all for change and fixing things, but people’s “wants” need to be realistic.
Turns out I don’t believe in capitalism anymore. That ship has sailed for me when I realized the only thing corporations and the government care about is making sure they make piles and piles of money off my work (hint im an engineer), while they try to offer me a piddley two weeks vacation bcz life is about working until you’re dead unless you’re rich.
I don’t expect elections to deliver the result I want, I want my vote to count
Although a lot of the other points deserve (more?) attention, I just want to share this because I never thought how hard this would feel.
I’m in my early 30s and come from a very apolitical family. About 1.5 months ago I voted for the first time in my life. At an embassy in the fraudulent Russian election.
Of course I knew my vote would not count. I always knew that every Russian election since I was a kid was a fraud. I did it for a statement and to partake in an event that resembled a demonstration, to do the limited thing I can do. But I would have never imagined that feeling that would hit me once I had actually voted.
After standing in line and passing the security checkpoints and ruining the bulletin (which in theory should count as a vote against everyone in the percentages). Once it was done. I was… furious, enraged, desperate. Much more than I thought. On a rational level I knew my vote didn’t matter. The results were already calculated no matter what. Even before I got in line. No matter whether I had smuggled in my non erasable pen or not. But once I had actually voted for the first time, I didn’t want anything more than this vote to count. Not to win, just for someone to acknowledge that bulletin. I felt so angry and helpless and I wanted to scream until my lungs would start to bleed.
So, yes, this freaking matters. I hope none of you will ever feel this way after voting. And for the love of God, if you have a passport of a country who has somewhat fair elections, please go vote.
I want more than this. I want a single person in LA’s vote to count as much as a single person in Oklahoma. Right now, they don’t; because of the electoral college, people in densely populated states’ votes count for less in the general election than those in the bible belt.
I think your comment distracts from the point of theirs, but we’re already here, so: the bigger issue is single seat representation and “choose one” voting. Single seat means that no matter who wins, a large fraction of the population won’t have representation. Who do you go to if you’re a Democrat but the Republican won? Choose one voting means the voters can’t support everyone they like. There are lots of ways to fix these problems, but I like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting with 5 winners per district. It’s impossible to submit an invalid ballot, and the voting technique can be easily applied to single seat positions like mayor. With 5 members per district, plus the decay property of the counting method, trying to gerrymander the map is functionally impossible and it’s highly likely any given voter will have someone in office who is willing to listen.
But once I had actually voted for the first time, I didn’t want anything more than this vote to count. Not to win, just for someone to acknowledge that bulletin. I felt so angry and helpless and I wanted to scream until my lungs would start to bleed.
I feel the same way after voting in Texas. Different method for caging and disenfranchising voters, but the outcomes are functionally the same.
I don’t think presuming my vote will be traunched and kettled and rendered meaningless through statistical manipulation feels any better simply because I know it will be counted. Its still a rigged game. The outcomes are overwhelmingly predetermined.
What I want more than anything is for my city of Houston to go its own way. To be independent of the corrupt cesspool of bigotry and fear that dominates the capital building. I don’t want to simply be counted in the minority. I want my independence.
I don’t support corporations making a lot of money. I don’t support the ultra rich.
And you can’t compromise on that. If the company or the person is too powerful, there is no good way to make them play fair.
I want everyone to be given what they need to live comfortably so they don’t get so fucking pissed off about the glaring unfairness of the world that they do a bunch of antisocial shit to cope.
Number 1 is hitting super fucking hard currently, not just with healthcare but science. I’m so fucking angry to see year after year after year NASA gets a budget cut and the fucking military gets yet another massive increase…
It’s to the point now that NASA had to decide what currently running missions to cancel not just what future missions are now unfeasible… Chandra X-ray telescope is the only one we have and the entire global X-ray science community relies on it… We’re now forced to give it the axe so we can shovel more money at Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin…
My entire life this is all I’ve ever seen. More military, less science. More military, no healthcare.
I don’t want money for nothing music starts playing
I want my MTV
I want my DJ Sugar C
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Just to be clear. I don’t want the Soviet Union. I want workers co-ops to be the default form of employment followed by government employees, and a small portion of unionized companies with private ownership and self employed folks to fill in the gaps here and there with an understanding that over time the unions will buy out the private owners of their shares.
I don’t want the Soviet Union. I want workers co-ops to be the default form of employment followed by government employees
So you don’t want a Soviet Union. You just want a… an elected local, district, or national council of workers to control the economy… but, like, a bunch of them in a kind of amalgamated political body?
with an understanding that over time the unions will buy out the private owners of their shares.
Damn. Nobody tell this guy about Lenin’s NEP.
Yes, I want what the Soviet Union claimed they wanted not what they got. You know, like any syndicalist worth her salt.
I’m not claiming that communism is bad, I’m saying that over centralization in the hands of a single party has done more harm to communism than MLs would like to believe.
There are a LOT of people here that do want everything free.
Fuck yeah I want everything for free! Is that feasible? No, obviously not. Are there things we can make publicly funded that would benefit everyone long term? Yes of course.
I don’t think “a LOT” is a notable enough percentage to justify all caps
Have you seen the comments on any post on the topic.
Everyone here is about free shit.
I want the government to server the people. NOT the corporations and churches. Keep your religion to yourself and tax churches. (at least the bullshit big ones)
When it comes to tax exemptions for religion, I’m in favor of removing them all.
Religions should be treated as non-profits, if they don’t want to pay taxes they need to file paperwork that shows the money is being used for expenses or charitable purposes, and there should be transparency to ensure that if they’re doing shady shit like sending donated money to Italy or paying pastors millions or buying private jets, then at least that information is public.
Make them legally split into two entities - one that does the religious stuff and one that does the charitable stuff. The latter is a non-profit and can be treated like any other charity. The former should be taxed like any other corporation. The religious side can of course donate to the non-profit and get the accompanying tax break for charitable donation if it wants, but then that funding has to be used for charitable purposes.
I don’t want jpeg artifacts on my memes.
