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Isn't capitalism great?

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- Such an old and simple antibiotic
- First that shit is not something you can pop like candy, your teeth can and will fall off if you use it as a "basic" antibiotics (which you shouldn't be using as anyways without a pressing need? These things are nuclear bombs in your system, you might experience organ failure just from one pill excessive use)
  
  Second the Chinese quality pills usage have been leading all of us to an antibiotic resistance catastrophe
  Fun times when this things will be needed and they won't even work anymore thanks to overuse

Bottom right pic hits hard. I plan to die in some fashion long before that. Fuck planning or saving for retirement if it doesn't matter.
In other news, Denmark raised their retirement age to 70 recently, and our conservatives in the US have been squawking about the same. LOL.
What the fuck is the point of this shit existence for anyone who can't become rich as a celebrity or wall street psycho? 90% of us are just here so the wealthy can have yachts, Lamborghinis, and mansions.
This place sucks.
- The right wing party in Australia (a few elections ago) increased retirement age but with a "rolling date". Meaning they all get to retire on time with the earlier date but the later you were born the later your retirement age. They literally set their retirement age in stone then fucked younger generations on their way out. It's still currently rolling out, recently increased to 67 in 2023.
  (In more ways than one bit this one is particularly obvious and idk how they got away with it).

This is the kind of socialist hellscape the capitalist is protecting us from.

Edit: Dense mixed used urban development, biking to work, walking to your nearest weekly market, buying unprocessed food for groceries and common public area easily accessible by foot for old people where they can mix with other generations.
- Hmm but what if I want to make thousands of people work for me without giving any excess value created by their labour to anyone else?
- All these pictures are from capitalist countries
- No, honey, we have European Cities at home
- What City is this?
  
  That's actually Chess, a board game that came out several years ago.
  
  It looks like it was taken from the tower in Crest, France, but I might be wrong
  
  The photo on the top left is of Crest, France.

Actually, this is what you're fighting for in Capitalism:

Not for yourself, though, rather for a few who add up to less than 0.0000375% of Humanity.
- Weren't they going to build a 5-mile wide boat that looked like a turtle. Where's that, I'm fighting for that.

It’s so odd how much hate pop figures get, from people whose apartments are filled with anime posters and figures
- In general, I think it comes down to the fact that they all just look low effort. They’re formulaic, which to someone who puts out passionate art, it’s kind of just insulting.
  And as much as I hate to say it, that’s all preference. I don’t personally think they’re “wrong” or “not art”. Just not very well done or original.
  
  well and they'll all end up in landfill eventually.
  
  It's very much bored ape energy, yeah
- "You don't like this thing, yet you do like this other, different thing that falls into a vaguely same broad category. Curious."
- I'm not into anime but I definitely think Funko pops are hideous and not cute at all
  
  As a millennial I know what it's like to take comfort from something that is crass commercial, and ultimately bad for the environment (looks guiltily over at Switch)...
  I share your perspective, but I'm not sure how to get people to see how to do better, because I myself am manipulated by similar forces, yet all I do is grumble about it as I fork over my money for the latest so the company can sell me little bits of the wonder I felt as a child back to me.
  I don't even blame them. It's a big circle and I'm part of it.
  PS. Sorry I wrote this as the caffeine was just kicking into higher great. It might be a bit much.
- My main problem is that they are all driven by fomo, they are ugly as sin, they are not handed over to the next generation, people don't even inpack them. All they are is future landfill.
- I like to rag on funko pops AND anime poster/figure infested rooms...
  But I have a keyboard problem. So I usually stay quiet.

I dont have a house or a retirement to fight for.

Don't you miss:

EDIT: Oh dang, people don't like to fight for this either :(
- There are many reasons to dislike the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, but these tenements are not it. Quite a lot of people prefer to buy these sorts of apartments over newer ones simply because they are built better. Keep in mind that those in these sorts of pictures haven't been properly maintained in years. They are 40-50 years old, it's normal for any building that has not been taken care of to look worn down - but if the owners of these apartments put in the effort to modernise their buildings, they are very comfortable. I live in one and it's great!
  
  That highly depends on the country and city. Communist decay is a real thing.
- In Yugoslavia it was actually quite the opposite. Old commie blocks in Serbia all have big green spaces around them and playgrounds, while new buildings are all built on top of each other with no room to breathe and no greenery in sight.
  
  though this pic is in winter, and there could well be a bunch of trees just to the right off-camera
  (also the cars and the satellite dish give away that this is what a commieblock looks 50 years after being built)
- Road of Bones:

I fight for managed democracy
- Truly Managed Democracy is a mellifluous clarion, ringing throughout the galaxy

I'd fight for those sexy ladies too.
I'd be the filling in that Oreo.

Oh, wait! I know this one!!
No, it isn’t.

Urban sprawl, car dependency, vinyl rubbish, famine pensions.

But at least I get funkopops

First one looks okay to me, id love to have my own quiet home
Cars, yeah no, i don't like to drive
I don't get the funky pops and the old man houses, might as well complain about action figures and schools
- Neighborhoods like that are not quiet and you'll be driving everywhere because there's nothing other than more houses for miles.
  Plus it's not saying that houses are bad, it's saying that single family homes in exclusively residential zones are bad.
  Action figures are toys that people buy for their children to play with. Funko pops represent worthless plastic trash that people buy because of marketing brainwashing.
  And "old man house"? oh ok I can see I that I've wasted my time.

Look man, I'm all for criticisms of capitalism, but stuff like this ain't gonna cut it...

I'm curious. What would a "communist" utopia look like?
- Why would you go immediately to communism?
  Here you go: https://youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y
  
  I would consider communism of some sort to be the ideal and the direction we should strive for. It doesn't have to be communism but I've always wondered what a purely stateless and classless society would look like. It's just hard for me to imagine, being the animals that we are, imbibing such a society
- Where's the Curly Wurlies?
  
  Yeah, I'd assume we'd think it would be like star trek. But it would be radical to surf solar flares out in space.
- Solarpunk

Yes because communist countries have ellegant urban planning 🤡
- If only there were more than these two dreary instantiations of differing economic frameworks, but as alas, I know only of these two pictures.
- Bro this could be literally any large east-Asian city on an overcast day, most (all?) of which have better urban planning than the rest of the world by a large margin, and most of which fall firmly on the "capitalist" side of the spectrum. "Bloc" housing (or as we call them over here, big-ass apartment buildings) aren't some communist-exclusive phenomenon.
- Not sure about this picture, but generally Soviet blocs were built with lots of surrounding green space, all the amenities you’d need within walking distance, and the rest of the city connected by public transport. Way more human-friendly than the US suburban hellscape.
  
  Westoids think bloc housing is uglier than homelessness.
- That can literally be the US with roads 2 miles wide

I kinda hate this pic.
There are worse fates than living in the suburbs, lol, what? If the experience seems bland remember it's not an infrastructure 'problem' but a demographics one. And bland beats ghetto -> warzone.
You can easily opt out of consumerism, they haven't made it illegal yet! Of course, if your life has mostly just consisted of 'going from little kids' toys to bigger boi toys', that's vacuous and depressing but, again, it's a personal decision.
Car-centric cities and infrastructure is a result of greed and bribes. An argument can be made that capitalist societies more easily push people into antisocial selfishness though, of course.
Retirement homes are, again, a 'skill issue' that's very prevalent in certain well known communities and almost nonexistent everywhere else. Raise and love your kids and be family oriented and one of them will take care of you (as it happened to my grandma, and it'll happen to my mom and MIL, and I assume, God willing, to my wife after my passing). Again, I don't know how much of this behaviour can be ascribed to capitalism.
- There are worse fates than living in the suburbs
  Not for the bees.
  
  That's a very real concern, you're right. Muad'dib, Muad'dib!

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