Alien: "but…why?" Me: "well, we get all our ideas from this thing called a TV and the TV tells us it's good. BTW, they own the TV channels."
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Imagine explaining Capitalism to a alien: "Well…a few people own everything, and for 40 hours a week everyone else has to do what they say."
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"Everyone owns what they create, you work as much or as little as you like and you only have to do what you've voluntarily agreed to do."
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Boss couldn't make a profit if everyone owned what they created. In fact, there would be no need for bosses. That'd actually be socialism
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Even Marx changed his mind on that stupid idea later in life.
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The idea of steps in evolution of societies is historically absurd - there were communist towns in medieval Europe & republics in the BC
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Im not sure what the difference is tbh - I’m new to leftist theory but historians at least call these movements communes
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haha, 40 hours a week... hahaha.
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Just 40? Where do you live?
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