this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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No shit sherlock

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For it to make any difference it would need to be violence in gated communities.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-richest-billionaires-in-us-states/

These homes would be a nice start. Can we just organize a “Naruto Run” on these peoples’ houses and property, and y’know… whatever else happens happens.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Imagine seige engines.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

“The norms of the market aren’t driven by our norms or the values of society. Many of our problems come from the failure to recognise what Smith was saying, and the corruption of his work. We live in a society where ethics and morality are unfortunately determined by markets and corporations.”

Smith’s writings are “simply contrary to the neoliberal paradigm”. He would have been appalled, MacDonald says, by “the accumulation of wealth on the scale we see in the world today” by figures like Elon Musk. Smith certainly cared about “generating wealth” but he also cared about “how we deal with inequality. He favoured government legislation to help the poor”.

MacDonald adds: “He said the primary interest of government should be ensuring that there’s proper distribution of wealth, that if we’re doing well we can’t simply look at others and think ‘he’s not, but I don’t care’ – which is the ethos today.”

Ensuring proper distribution of wealth seems to be the last thing governments are prepared to do, or even discuss in any serious way.