Twonks | Bluesky

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TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

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Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

  • jtrek@startrek.website
    0·
    3 months ago

    Failing businesses is irrelevant to the argument that labor is entitled to a fair share of what it creates.

    Your analogy to generalizations and an old timey Godwin’s law is laughable.

    The capitalist system “works” at tremendous cost to many people. Many such systems work. Chattel slavery would “work”.

    And you haven’t clarified why you’re so eager to defend this system. Are you a capitalist? Do you employ people while keeping the bulk of the profits?

    I don’t think I can take you seriously

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      Failing businesses is irrelevant to the argument that labor is entitled to a fair share

      How about labor getting their fair share of loss if business they work in fails. No? Why not?

      And you haven’t clarified why you’re so eager to defend this system.

      And you haven’t proposed any better system. It’s always the same when I ask that question.

      But I’ll satisfy your curiosity. I am a capitalist. I run super small business. If you think it’s sunshine and rainbow, you’re sorely mistaken. It’s more work, there’s no pay guarantee, competition is ALWAYS ahead of you, in capital, scale and know-how, you’re sweating shitless on any change in costs, because raising prices always comes at the risk of losing customers, meanwhile you’re required to do shit ton of government mandated paperwork.

      But I’m still in favor of capitalism. Because my parents and grandparents lived in socialism and told me how their life looked like. Long story short: It was an inescapable poverty and no free speech. That’s how alternatives really look like.