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  • arrow74@lemm.eetoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldWhat stage capitalism
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    Let’s not be unreasonable, there can be multiple causes and multiple solutions.

    Those countries also used to have a more communal structure amongst families and that still was dismantled.

    But they actually implemented social programs and living wages making it not an issue.

    Also yes it is capitalism fault. It all is, including the dismantling of our communities to favor more isolated living. It’s design to separate us and disempower the worker.



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    I’d blame a lot of this on the destruction of our communal living patterns. We used to live in extended family groups. It was reasonable and expected to live with your parents and siblings. If you did leave the family home it often was just to build a home on the same property.

    But then the idea of the nuclear family was popularized, probably to make more money and sell house, and here we are.

    To be clear since what I said has been immediately misinterpreted, family centric living patterns were torn apart by capitalism. It heavily favors capitalism when we are separated from each other and lose community. This wasn’t a benign social shift








  • Sure we can spend all day defining words, but that’s obtuse. You very well know what I meant. Not turning an active flight around is magnitudes different than continuing arrests and deportation after a court order.

    A justification requires at least some pretense of a reason. Just because you want to is a statement.

    Once again, it’s not a cope to acknowledge that things are bad now and they can get worse. I’m going to protests, I’ve stopped all discretionary spending, and I tell my story to anyone that will listen (my work has been directly impacted). Hell I haven’t spoken to my Trump voting father in months. Short of taking arms against the government there’s not much left to do, and frankly to get to that level the milestones on the way to the bottom do matter a lot.