Comments by "Wandering Existence" (@WanderingExistence) on "David Pakman Show"
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@littlebitofhope1489 🤦🏼🤦🏼 Is that all you got out of it? Lol, okay, let's unpack. The economic hardship and political disenfranchisement that we find ourselves in, just as the people felt in the '30s, synthesizes either a turn toward fascist totalitarianism or towards democracy. As people look for a strongman to fix their woes or they demand enfranchisement to fix it themselves- one is based on division and the other is inclusive. Being politically and economically conscious of our biases to these two possible 'solutions' helps us act more true to ourselves.
People are constantly talking about these two roads, whether they say the 'f' word or the 's' word or neither at all, it still is impossible to talk about change without invoking their ideas. Currently we have more MAGA-esque candidates and more socially conscious democrats (as opposed to corp dems) than anytime in the past few decades. Why? Because, like Orwell said, no one can avoid these two options. Let's remember that the hardship of the '30s produced Euro-fascism and US Social Security, which again, is just a choice between division and inclusion. Hope that helps.
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@BP-fu6kk Personally, I've been interested in a grassroots movement called the Next System Project. They have devised a way to keep production local for key anchor institutions and contract service to cooperatives. They have helped multiple cities struggling with job loss due to factory closures build back their communities, in the US and UK. In addition, trade unions, collectives, public banks, credit unions, community land trusts, CSA's, and many other democratically controlled institutions can work together to create democratic networks outside the market to create an economy that doesn't reduce people, their governments, and the environment to a monetary value. I think this can be a viable strategy to give people the autonomy over their work. I believe economic democracy is the only way people who work for the economy will have the economy work for them, their families, and the planet too.
This way of revitalizing communities by building community wealth has helped many communities all over the globe, and it is utilized by the UK labor party and touted by Jeremy Corbyn. Preston, Lancashire became the most improved city in the UK because of community wealth building. The thing that draws my conviction to the movement is that I can see it now, helping people live happier, healthier, and wealthier lives.
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@shlockofgod So you understand that economic rent is extracted, literally getting money for doing nothing but speculating, by violating the Lockean Proviso. You say "ownership" but do you realize that there are many different ownership systems? Do you understand that saying that just saying you have self-ownership doesn't make people feel free.
The employer-employee relationship is actually a very insidious dynamic. Employment is a rental contract. Like if you rented capital (say, a chainsaw from Home Depot), you pay rent for the "time preference" (basically the cost of time) for a piece of property. Capitalism is based on a principle of self ownership, which sounds empowering, until you realize that most people don't own capital goods other than themselves, and must rent out the authority over themselves as pieces of "human capital". This is a process of dehumanization where human beings are valued for their return on investment as capital goods. This is why, at least capitalism needs safety nets (or abolishment), or else the system won't value sick, elderly, and disabled people, as they can't provide competitive economic return for the investor class.
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@gaywizard2000 Yeah, I'm not your average American in terms of political education, lmao. I've studied political science and economics for 10 years. And why do you think I agree with the Bush response to Katrina... 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Bush and Cheney were a catastrophe everywhere they went for all 8 years. Lol, Why did you bring up hurricane Katrina, sad but irrelevant? And why would you assume that I agree with the Bush response? So many questions.... So many facepalms🤦🏼
The fact that you can't acknowledge that money in politics is a huge corrupting force speaks volumes for how little you know. 'Testing Theories of American Politics:
Elites, Interest Groups, and Average
Citizens', was published out of Princeton in 2014 by Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page, and since then other papers have come out collaborating their evidence that public policy is heavily distorted by elite interests. But I assume actual studies about political economy don't really pique your interest... You'd rather just make some stuff up about a country you don't even live in, lmao. Peace out, Looney Toon ✌️
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