Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "A Different Bias"
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@olmostgudinaf8100 PS If you want to dismiss ideas about a Socialist nirvana, you should learn British history. This country was built on Social Democracy. The Attlee Government implemented a real left-wing manifesto, rebuilt after the war, Nationalised the Bank of England, Coal, Steel, Energy, Transport and other industries. Gave us the welfare state, the NHS, free education, public libraries, national parks, public transport, legal aid and workers rights. People like you are the reason we've lost much of those advances, you keep giving ground and the right keeps marching on relentlessly. The Overton window moves further right and people like you move with it until you're almost a Tory and happy to accept Tory-lite version of Labour. Corbyn's policies won hands down in polls of the British public, but the relentless political assassination by the media and the fact that centrists were torpedoing Labour's chances to the point of actively working against Labour is the reason the Tories are still in power.
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Long live our arrogant, aristocratic, aloof, bumptious, high-hat, haughty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin, high-handed, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, persnickety, potty, ritzy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, toffee-nosed, toplofty, uppity Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers. Sorry I ate a Thesaurus, though it was a dinosaur when I swallowed it...
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@piccalillipit9211 The problem is that we've never had a system of equality. If people are born with more privilege and opportunities than others they will always be able to manipulate the system even further to their own advantage. We changed from feudalism to capitalism and the same feudal lords grew in power under capitalism. Human beings need to grow and pair and drop this idea of social hierarchy. Inequity will always feed disorder and division. The system needs to be designed from the bottom up with those best suited to the job given the opportunity.
I think building a new system from the ground up is the best way forward. Similar to your idea regarding the lords. Those most qualified for the job. Money is a con, it's simply a human construct that in practice just acts as a pyramid scheme and allows a tiny minority to own and control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources (land, water, human labour). We need a resource-based economy with a focus on ecology, biodiversity and sustainability. Where goods are valued based on usefulness, labour intensity, availability, sustainability etc. We need a system based on equality that encourages personal growth, not the accumulation of wealth. We had a eutopia at the start, we just get further from it. The idea that fiscal reward is more important than the admiration of your peers and society is a corruption of logic.
Eutopia is something we can only work towards. Everyone alive today is infected with capitalist dogma and logical fallacies. Hard work = success. The hardest-working people I ever met are poor. Getting rich by investing your trust fund does nothing for society. We have a whole class of people who don't contribute yet get all the rewards.
However, we aren't on a path to do anything about it. Just sit back and binge-watch your favourite show as disaster capitalism devours the human race, its history and its achievements in its short-sighted mindless assault on sanity and logic.
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