Socialism_Everyday

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[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Which of the several things I mentioned while paraphrasing the video titles?

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Propagating feel-goodism about climate change while taking money from the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation and saying that eventually climate change will be solved by technology, whitewashing carbon capture technologies and overselling their potential, taking money from Templeton Foundation when making videos about consciousness, using the "Israel fighting Hamas" narrative in a video regarding wars...

The country with a communist party and 60% of state ownership of the stock market is less socialist than the Nordic countries currently electing fascists into government like Finland and increasing poverty rates by 2% of their total population in 3 years?

Many people don't have that luxury.

Yes, furthering capitalism doesn't solve the problems of capitalism, it only makes them run deeper. We should socialize companies through a mixture of state ownership and unions.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Socialist countries? You mean like China? Or are you talking about European-style socialdemocracy? Plenty of suburban neighborhoods with detached housing in Germany or Norway too

This has less to do with the admittedly awful automobile-based society and more to do with the allocation of housing. High prices and low availability lead to people generally living randomly far away from their workplace. Soviet Union citizens for example accessed housing mostly through their labor union, and were allocated housing near their workplace so they could easily go walking or with public transit. It made cities very efficient with regards to commute, together with the division of urban areas into so-called "mikroraion" units, which established the concept of 15-minute neighborhoods already 70 years ago.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The post still applies to you in its entirety except for the 1h unpaid overtime. And yes, socialist ideas are good, that's the entire point of the post.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The 996 in China is far from standard, it's prominent mainly in the informatics/electronics sector, and it doesn't exist in the public sector as it's technically illegal afaik, just not prosecuted. Also, there's increasing pushback in China against it, and it's diminishing in scope.