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It's not free. It comes from our taxes. School lunch is free for the kid, and paid for by taxes.

And if you think that's a bad thing, then why does the military give free lunches to its soldiers?

They get free clothes and free housing too.
- My brother in law is an ex-marine, no college and now easily makes 4x what I do. Free network, free training, free career, low-interest loan on his house. I promise I'm not bitter... But if that's not socialism I don't know what is.
I feel like soldiers are a not great analogy here as they've literally signed over their lives and autonomy.
- Soldiers are a great analogy because the American military is one of the most socialist endeavours in the world. Everything they need is tax-payer funded. It's incredible really.
- Whereas the children are just missing their autonomy without signing it over?

I don't think mice understand the concept of something not being free tbh. It ain't like they go around with little mouse wallets filled with little mice money and little mice credit cards.

Nothing is free to a mouse. Everything comes with risks. Deadly risks lurk around every corner. That’s why mice dart around so quickly and act so cautiously, like tiny thieves.
- And they’re right. Little buggers best not let me catch ‘em in my chicken feed
Damnit now I picture a little mouse in a 3 piece suit, hat, strolling down the street, only to be conned by some rat with a goatee. But in the end he wins by getting the rat trapped in a cage.
- And now I just converted that little scenario into a random encounter for my d&d session on Monday.
- Notice of ~~meme~~ encounter acquisition
Hi do you accept MousterCard
Yes but we don't accept American Express

Mice die in mouse traps because Capitalists have turned their natural environment into a prison where the abundance of food is locked up to control the workers. Mice are just collateral damage.

Men die in work traps because they do not understand why the cheese is NOT free.

Well if the rats had abundant food we'd get "A plague tale"
- Only if you move the corn around and thus spread the fleas.

Socialism is where the mouse gets the cheese. Capitalism is where the cheese looks free, then you try to get it.

Just pull yourself up by your cheese traps, bro.
Capitalism is where the mouse pays for the cheese and then gets killed anyway
- The cheese isnt real cheese but 'cheese product' created from industrial waste and artificially priced to maximize profits for the shareholders.
Capitalism: If it’s free, then you’re the product
- If it's paid, you're actually still the product
The cheese has a subscription and cheese payments will slowly bleed you dry. You can try to quit cheese but the capitalists know that you have eat. Under capitalism, all the mice die poor and hungry except one.
I know many people who were the mouse in this story by going to the hospital in the US, not conceiving that it won't be free, only to get hit with the trap of huge bills when they get out.
Socialism is when the mice make their own cheese.
And communism is where the mouse gets arrested for having the cheese in the first place. Great film, The Witness. Everybody should watch it at least once every five years.
- Is there a decent English dub?

Yeah when you are about to join a workers collective Karl Marx is waiting to hit you on the head with a comically large flyswatter

Let's consider what's happening in Gaza with the hungry being shot. Let's then consider those in the US needing healthcare. Underying similarities and the opposite of socialism

Dear corporations, is this why we can access your apps websites for free? You are not stealing our information, selling them to data brokers and advertisers, and weaponising our interests to vote against our own interests, do you?

I dunno man, when I do a critical theory examination of the mousetrap system, it doesn't seem to involve the cheese at all but the fact that some powerful bastard wound up a spring.

The mouse trap is capitalism, the cheese is your retirement.

Somewhere, a cow is mooing at the metaphor

Somebody really not understanding what free means…

Social protections are not free, we all pay into them. Europe has much higher tax rates than US. These tax rates are there to pay for healthcare, public services, education, and a host of employee protections (infinite sick leave, significant maternal leave, various forms of care leave, protections from exploitation and unfair dismissals…)

Our grandfathers fought for it, so we can live a healthy work life next to a healthy personal life. And every day we fight to find the correct balance to maintain this system.

Unless… are taxes the trap??

Tell me more about this mouse economy.

All what mouse eat is free.

All what mouse eat is THEFT. If they weren't so LAZY and got a job they could pay for cheese like the rest of us. Ratatouille was one of the good ones.
- ikr they should pull themselves up by their mouse-straps.

but...the 'cheese' isn't free. my taxes..you know what...never mind.

Who moved my cheese?

Yeah we tried that also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

Makes pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches

The mouse trap exists to prevent the indigenous population (mice) from sharing in the bounty of their land, so the colonizers can hoard it all.

Whose money goes into socialism? Which government has ever shared said money with the general public. Y'all haven't watched hunger games and it shows.