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No tomato throwing here because I just wish it were true because it sounds simple. But I just don’t think it works. So long as work exploitation and the profit motive persist, any gains will always be precarious. I mean, it’s much harder to build something than to tear it down, as we also see with the DOGE monkey business. We have to win every time but they have to win once.

So I would argue that certain fundamental moral imperatives would have to be codified as inalienable rights, constitutionally and declaratively. So for example it should come to be considered illegal and morally repugnant to rent humans, just as it is to buy them. It should also be considered illegal hoarding and gross to pass down intergenerational ownership of capital (“passive assets”, “investments”, and the like, I’m not talking about personal property).

But the thing is once stuff like that are enacted, there is no longer anything to be called “capitalism” any more.

When you culture is so much about cOMpEtItiOn that you forget that sports are just a made up thing for witch we get to make whatever rules we like. Gender segregation in sports isn’t that eternal either.

If you’re that worried about different abilities competing, install a tiered system like the Special Olympics.

EDIT: Interesting read: https://daily.jstor.org/gender-incommensurability-in-sports/

What if the separation of competitions, “said to be a natural consequence of the differences between men and women,” is actually is “just a tool to create those differences”?

Lol, more like “you can’t have so much more than me that I end up being forced to serve you just to survive”.

If you think that’s “jealousy”, you don’t understand what wealth is.

The only reason the blue collar man in the meme can afford a suburban home, a large family and free time on one income is because of very large taxes on the rich and very high rates of unionization. If people have these and choose to be trad-idiots, fine, so long as other people can also have these things and be free to choose to not be trad-idiots.

According to the convincing argument by Gary Stevenson, so long as wealth inequality persists, assets are going to just get more expensive.

https://youtu.be/MSdhijZ7Uz4

It’s not collapsing, Jack.

Calling other Christians heretics and fake is the most Christian thing there is.

And fuck no, there is no equivalence between Prosperity gospel and Liberation theology.

Don’t let religious pluralism and tolerance get in the way of punching up. Their point is to keep people from punching down and oppressing religious minorities.