Quotewhat does that mean you'll do with the million dollar house and fancy German luxury cars?
I will keep the cars and the house as they are the result of fifty years of my own congealed labor. My net worth is consistent with someone who earned every fucking dime they have. Which I did. I am comfortable because I made myself comfortable, as I continue to do by working after retirement when I really do not have to.
If America were communist my personal situation would not be any different because you can keep what you earn in communism. If the entity you work for is privately owned or owned by the dictatorship of the proletariat, it does not matter. In any system except slavery you keep what you earn. In slavery you have free food and housing. It is a tradeoff.
Communist is an accurate label for me but like all communists with both feet on the ground I understand full communism can't be achieved by contemporary society. Socialism is the road to a destination which can't actually be reached. But it is the road to take for it is the journey which matters.
A few months ago I had the good fortune to ask myself how my life would be different if America at the snap of a finger suddenly were socialist. My good fortune was that I asked myself this question on the way to work. Five minutes from getting there.
The answer was that I still had to get to work on time. That realization was my good fortune.
So how does socialism or communism really differ from the oligarchy we have? The answer is democracy. The dictatorship of the proletariat instead of the dictatorship of money that we have now.
Quotewilling to reduce your inequality
Really, you are over the top. I live good because I worked and saved AS A WAGE SLAVE all my life. Freedom from poverty describes me. Benefiting from inequality does not because I earned what I have. Even in communism people are paid.
Quotethink fast....wouldn't Elon and every other fat cat say the same thing?
They would say the same thing, and they would be lying. They are rich because they stole congealed labor from other people. I have not done that. All the congealed labor I have is my own. And that is the fundamental difference between workers and capitalists. Theft of congealed labor defines capitalism.
I am in a rare situation where my life because of these things.
- No inherited wealth
- Paying my own way through school
- Working as a wage slave exclusively all my life
- Social Security being a thing
I have been able to live a life as if I lived in an advanced socialist country. In a real socialist country my school would have been paid for 100%. But I list it as necessary for me to claim that I live as a socialist does because my education was not given to me. As education is to people in a capitalist family. In capitalist families tuition is paid by someone else's congealed labor who is outside the family. Someone who may not be able to educate themselves. A situation of inequality and exploitation.
In America you really can't get more proletarian than I am. Or less proletarian than Elon is.
In a real socialist country everyone would be able to live as I do. You would not have to save your own money. The system would do it for you.
And the system would make sure you had work.
And I see nothing wrong with owning cars that are made by the best car maker in the world. I appreciate the quality.
Inequality is the root of evil. <-- Back to the original point.