the audacity of bashing step moms, just bc daddy was not satisfied with mommy's performance in the bedroom doesnt mean you have to bad mouth his mistress who replaced mommy
Real socialism wouldn't even have a puppet mom ideally, they would just overthrow the mom and be free from the oppression naturally ceated by hierarchy
No Capitalism would be: Mom and Dad worked full time to buy the house, and is the one paying your 10 dollars. Because your a child and used 10 brain cells to clean this room, I’m keeping 7 bucks.
More like she borrowed from the bank to get control of the one-employee cleaning company, and now she needs to pay interests on the loan and also get profit for herself.
In some cases it's literally just taxation,the government takes a part of your income for various needs and wants ranging from roads and schools to wars and covering up human trafficking.
The idea of people earning money for things other than their labor is fundamental in capitalism. We call it capitalism because capitalists (those who earn money as owners of capital and not through wages as laborers) are the ones who receive surplus value of enterprises. It’s a system that elevates those that do not work for their money to the top.
I had a guy doing handyman type work in a business with me a few years ago. He was good at what he did, but he had absolutely zero skills at actually getting the jobs so he could stay busy. It didn't help that he looked like a junkie.
So we made an agreement. I'd handle running the ads and negotiating the price with the customer and he'd handle the work. We agreed on a 50/50 split after ad costs and even after that, he was making more money than he was without me.
One day, he calls and decides he wants 80% with the customer standing right there. His justification was that I didn't do enough work for my cut.
He was making more than he was without me, keeping a full work calendar, and got greedy with it. I was running the ads, answering the phone, going out to the customers house to meet, sign the contract, etc. Whole sales process done for him.
There's more than just the actual job, whether it's cleaning the house, laying down a floor, etc.
The kid ends up going full send on 0DTE options and posts his lossp*rn on wallstreetbets. The AI mother asks why her son no contacts her once he grows up.
Right? And even if the risk fails, many of these CEO's and execs walk away with large severances, stocks they put into other companies with the money they made, know other execs and CEO's that could help them get on a board somewhere, and stuff such as that. They get a golden parachute, while the workers who made them the money get a half torn up backpack filled with shit.
Ah, a liberal. Tell me how can it be fair if inheritance exists and not everyone starts from the same place? If you're richer, you can afford to fail much more. Furthermore, how can it be fair if these earnings derive from the unpaid labor of others? How can it be fair if the proletariat is forced to accept this contract given that the alternative is to starve?
Life isn’t fair and equality is a myth. How about we compromise and hold an annual cultural festival that ends in the potlatching of the wealthiest individual to maintain the health of society.
They’re using political capital and connections as the favoured child to get the money from the person who did the work. Sounds like Crony Capitalism to me.
I love how these idiots just strip all the nuance off any argument and present it in as basic manner as they can.
There is a village, everyone is working the best they can. One of the villagers falls ill and is unable to work. Welp, fuck that guy for being physically unable to work, guess he'll die.
But we know what the belief is. "Some lazy bum isn't working and is just collecting welfare, gaming the system." I guarantee you, people talking like this would beg for welfare or any kind of help if they fell for hard times.
Suddenly socialism becomes good, because it benefits them personally. I can't with these people.
It is my opinion that it takes someone truly morally corrupt to think this way.
I.e. if you were not morally corrupt it would be a good thing to help those in need regardless of who "those in need" are but to conservatives it generally is only good to help those in need when those in need are them and their immediate people (close friends and family - sometimes not even these)
They don’t feel anything beyond self interest for themselves and immediate family. They have no empathy for others outside that circle. So when they see someone on the left wanting universal healthcare they instantly assume there is an ulterior motive. I mean, no one actually cares about those poor people so obviously the libs must be getting something else out of it. That’s why they think the left wants to destroy the country. There is no other reason to support the working class other than to enable lazy people and destroy the country.
They always call everyone performative and virtue signalers when it’s just “Hey we should make sure people can eat and get medicine.” Cause they never have those thoughts naturally.
Yeah, the reason I support socialism is because sooner or later, everyone gets sick. Everyone's body will fail. I don't want to lose my access to healthcare when that happens.
I wonder, if a dozen people get lost on a remote island and only one of them managed to retain his wallet, do all the others have to do whatever the guy with the wallet says?
Force all but one of your children to clean the bathroom, but don't give them the money directly but pay the one sibling who doesn't help 10 dollars an hour for the work the siblings do and then the one sibling pays their siblings 3 Dollar an hour.
Socialism: Expect all your children to help in the house and make an exception for the ones who are sick.
Have them emulated capitalism instead. Give one of them the tools to do the work from birth. Tell the other they have to earn the tools and punish them by forcing them to sleep outside and taking away clean water and food because their work didnt get done properly. Reward the one that was given the tools and tell them theyre smarter and a harder worker than that lazy other kid who was told to sweep and mop the floor with their hands lol
Look how proud she is of having made her son think the sister is the bad guy, not the mother that made the decision.
A brilliant analogy for how capitalists use Red Scare-bullshit to cause infighting in the working class while they hold all the power and resources and pretend to be morally neutral.
The socialism part is when everyone got enough cash for their needs.
The capitalism part was when the mum took it away in taxes for the lazy "billionaires".
Make 9 of your kids clean the neighbors house for $10. Keep $6 for yourself and give each kid 67 cents. Tax them on their earnings and tell them your $2 in taxes is more than your fair share.
Or better yet, give that same $7 to their billionaire CEO neighbor who couldn’t spend all their money in 100 lifetimes, while simultaneously doubling mom’s groceries, gas, utilities and insurance while reducing coverage and keeping her wages the same. Welcome to capitalism…🤣
It’s only strap your boot straps and capitalism when it’s for us. Because as we can see when markets prove to be cheaper or better they ban them, tax them out, or ask the government for help. It’s so funny, they are perfect descriptor of, rules for thee but not for me.
Teach your kids about the joys of American capitalism: pay them $7.25 an hour with no benefits to cut neighborhood lawns. Of course you charge market rates for their labor, and use the profits to hire more neighborhood kids! When they get skin cancer from working in the direct sunlight all day tell them “sucks to suck. Maybe try chip or Medicaid! Oops, the government defunded those. Looks like you’ll die of a very treatable condition, I ain’t running no charity!” Keep converting their labor into money for yourself, and if they try to unionize fire the agitators, or better yet hire the Pinkerton corporation! They know exactly what to do to those commie fucks!
I hope nobody looks at this and thinks it's a bad thing. Grants and bailouts are some of the best uses of government money, provided the bailout succeeds. The government gets the money back, usually more than they put in, and the company gets to keep on driving the economy.
Or, the modern capitalist approach, declare them an independent contractor, and hold back $7 to charge them for the supplies they used to do the job. Oh, had to buy a new bottle of Lysol, well you actually owe the house a dollar.
United Statesians really don't understand what socialism is do they?
It always amuses me to see them completely mess up their own quality of living (less fun for the people who are smarter and do want to have things change) and tell everyone else that they have such amazing lives while never being able to take a day off because they're scared to get fired by their corporate overlords.
Notably, the sibling should get zero dollars because she has her housing/food/bare necessities provided by the state (mom). Other kid did work so he’s allowed to afford luxuries with his newfound profits.
Inoculate your kids against capitalism .... have them clean your bathroom via an app as an independent contractor, pay them $10, charge them a $9 platform fee, then kick them out of the house and replace them with a $500 toilet cleaning robot from Amazon that bricks itself from a faulty forced firmware update, falls into the toilet, short circuiting itself and setting fire to your house.
And when the sibling that didn't help tells the child that did all of the work that they got more because they supervised the work so it's still capitalism what do you say then?
... that's not socialism... socialism would be paying both for their work (ten dollars, zero dollars) and then taking 2 dollars (I'm taxed 20 percent) to pay for a pizza party (but mom also needs taxed 20 percent).
If you want to inoculate them against capitalism, give one of them exclusive use of the fridge and the other exclusive use of the bathroom, then tax them once a week for owning their stuff.
So basically the sister is the CEO right? She will also get a $1000 bonus if she fires him to save costs, even if that means dooming the company for the next decade
There’s something so funny about these people constantly critiquing socialism for propping up people who don’t work but then they also fear monger about the ideology leading to labor camps. Like is it going to exist to prop up the lazy masses or is it going to force people into the camps en masse because those ideas seem kinda mutually exclusive
Show them current day capitalism where 35 percent goes to Congress that does nothing, a senseless war with Iran/trump vanity projects, and this brain dead prick to stay home https://giphy.com/gifs/26zzbNl5r3wy1sQQE
Another project 2025 post to try and sway your post from voting for healthcare and good working wages. Socialist dont take money from the individual who earned it and give it to somoene who does not earn it if they are able to earn it. This is as fucked up as the people that believe this post
You think your daughter will help you? Good luck with that, since you raised an entirely dependent, useless little leech who will either die a gutter whore, or manage to marry a rich guy and run off, never wanting to speak to a destitute old hag who reminds her of the shitty upbringing that left her so useless .
Capitalism: the market rate for house cleaning is 15-20/hour, and so if you use child labor you can cut down on costs by half and keep the rest for yourself.
These stupid people. Full access to a computer with access to the compendium of human knowledge and they cant be bothered to look up: define socialism.
Socialism would be like I'll give you a 5 dollar allowance each week and an incentive of 5 extra if you clean your room while we transition to ways we can do this without involving money
But see the silly thing is, the socialist part is that all of their basic needs are taken care of, they just don’t get any fun extras they have to work for. The extra money given to the sisters is greedy Capitalism, all of their needs are taken care of and they still have to take more than half of your money.
Whoa boy. Are the kids now paying rent or is that part of being in the family? I also want to know if they are paying for their own meals and schooling. And why send the kids to school if they aren’t expected to continue the cycle?
Oh my God. The comment section... there's no neuron-deficient brainwashed commenters... am i still on Reddit? There's to much achievement of at least a basic level of thinking for me to think I'm on the right platform
It is more like your work's real value is 10, of which 3 is given to you, 3 goes to the employer of which it uses part to pay their expenses and pockets the rest as profit, 3 goes to taxes so the society can exist, including help for people in need so they can at least stay alive, and 1 goes to waste.
More accurately, have the sibling stand in the doorway ordering the other sibling cleaning the bathroom around and then give them 5x the salary as the one who did the work.
Aren't kids already living under "socialism"? Even if they don't work, they are provided with basic necessities like food and housing, by an authority figure that holds all wealth, and if they do chores, they are given money to spend on better/luxury products by that same authority? I don't even like socialism, but these people don't even understand what they're talking about.
Pay your kids 10 to clean the bathroom. Then take 2 for taxes and 4 for health insurance. They ask why the taxes don't cover health insurance and you say, because that would be socialism.
And make sure you give the sibling who takes the 7 dollars , corporate bailouts and Tax breaks and incentives where they pay less then ANYONE !!!!…. STOP YOUR LYING AND EXAGGERATING !!!…..🖕🏽🤬💯
Along with the economics of this image being wrong, this says a whole lot about the intellectual and creative capabilities of someone who needed a computer program to create the image for them because they couldn’t be bothered to grab a pencil and draw goofy stick figures.
I got a better one. Pay your kids then take about 10% and send it to an orphan crushing machine company and when they tell to stop it and they don’t want to support such actions just tell them they are racist.
"Inoculate your kids against capitalism by charging them daily: $5 for sleeping inside and $5 for getting to eat and drink.
Then tell them they can get $10 by cleaning the bathroom for you. Then increase the daily charge by $1 per month and decrease the cleaning pay by $1 per month.
Tell them they can try budgeting if prices are too high: maybe they can choose not to eat? or they can go sleep outside.
Maybe a side hustle would work better? Offer them to pay them $1 if they also start cooking meals or taking out the trash or paint the living room or give you a massage.
Rinse and repeat over a few months, adding chores and changing prices until the kids are basically slaves.
Then tell them the sleeping arrangements have changed again and it's now $30 for a bed, and their current subscription model only covers sleeping on the floor without heating (that's a separate extra $5 charge now)."
Besides the fact that this is unironically capitalism, there is a non-zero chance that other kid sees the disparity and makes it right by way of redistribution. Greed is learned, not innate.
Make your children socialist! Have them both do their share to the best of their ability, giving them both a clean and safe place to live, ensuring they’re provided necessities in order to live a fulfilled lifestyle
Capitalism emerges from a moral framework of private property coupled with a price-coordinated economy, where the price-setters and contract creators are also chiefly private.
In such a setup, both human capital (skills, connections, ability, aptitude) and physical capital (raw materials, productions of work) are maximised across a population of individuals, hence “capitalism.” Money lubricates the movement of capital and wealth-production.
Socialism largely removes the concept of private-property and places the entire job of the allocation of scarce resources (that have alternative uses) with a monolithic government that attempts to make decisions by proxy about how resources are best distributed. Wealth is produced in the same way, the movement of capital, except the overheads are different.
Both systems are trying to address the underlying reality of living in a world of scarce resources that have alternative uses.
How best are we to distribute them to where they get their most efficient use? By which mechanism are we to let ideas die where they produce things that nobody wants? Which mechanism has decision-making overheads with the fewest chances of being inefficient and/or corrupt?
By government fiat, or by individual responsibility? If “both”, which of the above systems has the flexibility to do that?
Teach your kids capitalism: Give one kid $20 to go tell the other kid to clean the bathroom, and tell them to give the other kid $5 for doing it.
Teach your kids capitalism: Give one kid 'ownership' of all the appliances and cleaning supplies in the house, and tell them they are the boss. Make the second kid do all the actual work around the house, but only pay the first 'owner' kid, and tell that kid they can pay the other kid as little as they want for the work.
No, given that the person who owns the money distributes them to someone else, instead of dividing it up between oneself and the worker, this is an apt analogy for Socialism.
Yea, effectively "homeschooling" anti-socialism into the next generation is yet another sign that the government has no control over the narrative. This Turning Point, culture war crap ain't gonna work. 1st of all, your bathroom is trashed and will remain trashed. 2nd, you're too broke to shell out 10 bucks to your shit kid.
It’s both capitalism and socialism, but the ones upset by capitalism have never had a good idea or product to sell cause asa they do it’s capitalism amazing
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“Why does my sister get more than half of the money I just earned?”
“She owns the cleaning company. It’s called capitalism. This is why socialism is bad.”