30 Tweets To Show How Dystopic Our Capitalistic Society Already Is, As Shared By ‘Existential Comics’

On it

And it is! Go ahead and smile! *:D*

And so shall it be!

Seems like our fellow pandas agree.

That's the point.

Pressure and vote for politicians willing to tax the rich and implement universal basic income (and in the US, universal healthcare)

Right now you live in a time of runaway capitalism. It is not how this country was run prior to the Reagan Administration. If you ARE interested in how capitalism worked so well for nearly everyone, study economics from the end of WW2 until the Reagan Administration took over

Maybe our standard of living is over inflated and unsustainable? Maybe more more more isn’t the answer and hyper consumerism is what got us here. Maybe the answer is in moderation everything can work.

If we make education, technology and medicine really really wide spread and affordable for everyone, that alone is a solid foundation against exploitation. The uninformed, ill-equipped and sick are the easiest to keep down, after all. If mundane work could be automated, more time and effort could be put into learning, teaching, researching and inventing. If the platforms are there, so people aren't just deprived of their income. But these are increasingly accesible, with help of the internet, 3D-printing, open-source and do-it-yourself. A school or lab is easier to establish than ever. Then research and academia will be less reserved for the rich and benefit more people. That gives more opportunities for self sustaining farmland, electricity generation, health facilities, power-checking journalism etc. Modern capitalism is like a troll in Norse mythology. Super strong and powerful, you can't fight it, but you can outsmart it.

We vote in every election, including local. PARTICULARLY local. We always vote on the "bus" principle - you look for a bus going to your exact destination, but if there isn't one, you vote for the one going closest. Sometimes it will be pretty close. Sometimes it's not that close at all, but you still get that bus and not the one promising to drive over a cliff and then explode. We push the people who are elected to listen to what people want and need. We strike sometimes. We demonstrate sometimes. And we keep going. Folks in the Civil Rights movement are a good example of persistence sometimes against great odds, taking the wins when you can, and coming back after the losses.

Solution #1: The highest paid person in the company cannot make more than X% over the lowest paid employee. Solution #2: Make politicians live on the median wage for their state. Solution #3: Politicians should not be allowed to trade stock while in office; blind trades only. Solution #4: Churches buy up land. Require that churches provide housing and services for the homeless in order to keep their tax exempt status. Solution #5: Scrap the tax code. No more filing taxes. Have the right amount of taxes taken out of each paycheck. Handle it the same as the other industrialized country. Solution #6: Apply our taxes as directed. Don't reallocate funds. Solution #7: Healthcare. ....need I go on?

Unionize and stand together. Are you willing to stop working, thus losing income, for a few weeks to help fix things?

True words Scagsy, but I'm just too bloody tired

I agree with you. This whole post is really missing the part where he explains the solution. It's leaving me in what I've recently heard called "the sad gap" (watch Hank Green on YouTube). He sure has a lot to say about how bad capitalism is...and very little on what exactly would be better.

Communism

Try reading Murray Bookchin maybe ? I think his concept of social ecology was pretty solid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ecology_(Bookchin)#:~:text=Bookchin's%20social%20ecology%20proposes%20ethical,rights%20and%20related%20social%20movements.

There is a voting system in place to cover this. You use the arrows just above your comment :)

So a public funded project gave us internet. Glad you and post agrees.

Even better, have health care provided free at the point of need. Americans pay SO MUCH in health insurance, and still live with the threat of bankruptcy if they get seriously ill, or not being able to receive free treatment until they are in a dire state. Look to Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australian, UK, Germany... see how it can be done. Everyone is treated, and for a huge deal less money than in the USA.

a) it's an article of tweets from one Twitter account, which is US-based, and b) "anyone can write for Bored Panda!" So go ahead with your different take; you are being welcomed every day to add diversity to the discussion :)

I think it started before USA was even a thing actually…

Not really you hear it in many other countries. It was the argument that the right wing government used in spain to not raise the minimum wage for a decade. The left doubled the mw and guess what? Nothing happened except reducing poverty

To be fair, my country is at the heart of some of worst examples and repercussions of soulless corporate capitalism. It deserves to be criticized as often and as loudly as possible.

And?

not at all, I am brazilian and here people think like this as well, I think that maybe in europe and some places in asia people see it differently but people have this mindset in a lot of places besides the U.S

I guess that's true. But isn't it something any Americans on this site need to hear? We can read it, and if you get bored, you can read smth else. Doesn't really hurt anyone

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Yes. Not sure how that could be any clearer by now, but there are still those who adamantly argue that the free market will naturally right everything if it's left alone. No doubt there are many arguing that disingenuously.

Problem here is to apply for most jobs, even as an artist, they want you to have a bachelor's or even masters degree. I was frequently in tears looking for a job where i can be creative as opposed to a flesh robot, and they all had requirements for at least a bachelor's or multiple years of experience. Since the experience was impossible to get without previous experience, i went into debt. After I graduated I got my first interview a week before covid shut everything down. I'm just lucky i guess?

You mean the doctors and professors who get paid dirt cheap despite being vital to life and then doubted all the time. Looking at you students of Facebook

You do know people who don't go to college commit suicide more...cos to be alive in the modern world, you need at least two degrees to succeed

And who do you think works on fashion, advertising, movie industry...artists ,ya dingus. Appreciate them, they have to deal with people who think like you.

You do know plumbing is a trade? Carpentry? Car mechanics...all a trade.....Do you expect a doctor to fix your car or uphold the law for you

YES, this exactly. All those aggrieved people with their hot takes on "why should a person flipping burgers" (why is that ALWAYS the example?!) "make the same amount as a paramedic"? NO ONE IS SAYING THEY SHOULD MAKE THE SAME AMOUNT. BUT THE SOLUTION IS NOT KEEPING ONE IN POVERTY AND THE OTHER ONE BARELY ABOVE IT.