It will trickle down any day now, bro
Never before in my life have I ever seen more accurate depiction of trickle down economics.
Reminds me of the comics from the early 1900s!
wow, there’s a lot going on in that comic.
Nationalism is the same, with the guy at the top shouting “watch out, those foreign lads are going to steal your crumbs!”
that’s hyperrealist.
Just a little too on the nose for my taste, but great non the less.
you mean like this? (same artist)
Exactly like this :D
This is the artist: https://newsie.social/@royaards
His cartoons are amazing and he’s not afraid to call a spade a spade. Often Dutch politics, but also some international topics
These are brilliant
I like how P. the carpenter is depicted shirtless.
It’s like if incredible cross sections did a book on politics.
Black Mirror S01E02
Still one of the best episodes
Imagine living in a first world country with unbelievable privileges and still have the skill issue to dare being ‘poor’.
A Minimum wage uneducated american burger flipper makes the same salary, if not more, than a government worker of my country the likes of congressmen or their helpers. And yet, they claim to be living paycheck to paycheck, unable to afford a house, food and the pleasures of life.
Yeah right.
Beep.
Sorry dude, you’re talking without knowledge.
I live here in the US; xvto live near anything innovative or interesting costs a pretty penny to your local
parasitelandlord, similar people charge small businesses even more than us individuals; as such all of us are paying more to live in a walkable place with basic amenities like hospitals, education, etcI commend your bravery in disagreeing with the narrative, but unfortunately most of my people are stuck living on credit while price increments with out NCt stop
Billionaires should by definition not exist if they abided by all laws and regulations that existed, including paying taxes and paying their workers a fair wage. These people got to where they are because they’ve committed several serious crimes and destroyed an awful lot of lives in the process, and simply do not care that they did.
This isn’t a “skill issue”. If we’re going to put it into video game logic, this world is a video game where cheaters and hackers are rampant, and nobody does anything about them as they destroy the world. It doesn’t matter how good you are at the game, it doesn’t matter how much effort you put into learning how to play it, that cheater has godmode and aimbot activated. Nothing you ever do will affect them in any meaningful way. The game masters are also cheaters and thus, it’s in their best interests to maintain this. The cheaters have the monopoly on the game and the only reason the game is still going is because we all participate in it or we all die.
The cheaters need us to keep playing or they die as well. Just like how the wealthy elites need us to keep working or everything they have becomes redundant. Their way of life gone and buried. They didn’t get there by being good or skilled, they got there because they gave the literal and proverbial middle finger to morals and ethics, and the law, and got rewarded immensely for it. Then they changed the system so it would always benefit them via paid lobbying in politics and getting their bribed politicians to destroy every little thing that could possibly protect the peasants, like you and me.
Stop defending the people who would happily raze your entire neighborhood to the ground and toss you and your family into the meat grinder if it meant making slightly more money this year than the year before. They do not give a FUCK about you. Not a singular fuck. You will not be rewarded for your loyalty. You will not be acknowledged for your perseverance. You do not matter to them. Unless you are the brother of a certain plumber, then you matter greatly enough that terrorism charges are applied to you.
That should tell you everything you need to know. Stop this crabs in a bucket mentality.
Implement anti cheat or something
And if I were to compare a weeks groceries and bills for the average American, would you have the same costs as them?
Can you travel around without a car? A lot of Americans can’t, while living in so called “food deserts”. This is an area of high population but little to no cheap nutritious food anywhere. All you can get is overpriced delivery or hop on down to some gas station for a bag of extremely unhealthy fatty snacks and a drink which is 30% sugar.
Imagine thinking that you can live in a first world country while paying as much as living in the developing world.
Food desert?
You first worlders invent fancy words for everything. Try living in a real desert for once, you privileged gringo.
You’re falling for a common tactic of the people oppressing both you and the poor in America, making them fight against each other instead of the ones actually causing it. If a homeless person makes more than people in your country by begging, them making less or straight up dying does nothing to help your country either.
The rich profiting from both those under hard times in America while at the same time raping your country, those are the ones who deserve your ire.
I have and it’s fucking easy, because deserts are nature and in nature you can just pick shit you need. You can’t do that in a food desert, because some overly enthusiastic wannabe fascist will boot you down for shoplifting and throw you to jail for some forced labour so the US economy doesn’t fall.
I didn’t design their economy nor do I live in it. I’m very capable of surviving in the wild where I live. I just don’t need to. I would much rather do that. And build my own house. Unfortunately we have something called “building regulations” so I’m not allowed to construct weird stick-tents like you, so you know, I’ll actually have to pay a person for the materials.
According to the USDA’s most recent report on food access, as of 2017, approximately 39.5 million people - 12.9% of the US population - lived in low-income and low food access
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_in_the_United_States
And if you’re using terms like “privileged gringo” you’re probably from the Southside of the US southern border.
Meaning you’re likely Mexican (or not, but it’s not a bad likelihood). But you don’t acknowledge this as an issue?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_by_country#North_America
As a result, people of low Socio economic status (SES) ultimately spend up to 37% more on their food purchases.[33]
a study on urban food environments, participants described the lack of supermarkets as a “practical impediment to healthful food purchase and a symbol of their neighborhoods’ social and economic struggles”.[41] Health outcomes edit
There are diet and health implications for those who live in areas where nutritious food is not readily available; some claims, such as linking food deserts with obesity in children, are disputed.[21][22][42]
A summary report by The Colorado Health Foundation concluded that individuals with access to supermarkets tend to have healthier diets and a lower risk of chronic disease such as diabetes.[43] Food deserts are correlated with many poor health outcomes. Other studies find a link between better access to supermarkets and lowered risk of obesity. As well, better access to convenience stores is associated with a higher risk of obesity.[17]
It’s not my fault you don’t have basic education, ese
Assuming only Mexicans use the insult gringo is racist af.
But what can we expect from a orsnge skinned uneducated blob from freedom burger eagle shooter land
Why would you assume I assume only Mexicans use it?
You’re speaking English, but probably because you know we have that language in common.
You don’t even know my skin colour. I can tell you that my hair and skin is such that is sometimes has caused people to ask me where I’ve emigrated from. When my name is essentially the Finnish equivalent of Jack Johnson or the like.
Voin mäki ruveta omalla kiellellä perseilee mut en ymmärrä et miten luulet et se auttaa mitää?
So now you’re just cursing Trump? While he’s definitely one cuntry motherfucker who deserves to go, the food desert issue wasn’t created by him. More like the same ridiculous systems came up with both food deserts and a Trump presidency.
But food deserts still definitely are a thing in NA.
There is something called public transportation. Even savage third world countries have them, as bad as they are, but they work
And public transport is considered when talking about food deserts.
That’s why I here in Finland definitely don’t live in one as there’s practically 247 buses going to hypermarkets that are 247. And that transport is made incredibly easily available to me, you can get support for a bus ticket from the government. Which again is why I’m not counted as having a hard time to access supermarkets.
But if there’s some ghetto where you first have to walk a kilometre or two to even get on the public transport route, then you have to pay for 5 dollars a way and it only goes there and back every four hours. What is say, a single mother to do in a situation like that? (Here they would be allowed on the bus for free btw, anyone with a children’s carriage is.)
I live in a city with literally one of the best public transports in the world. (#1 in BEST study 2024) So I, personally don’t live in a food desert. Does that make me think they don’t exist? No, because I’m capable of reading and empathy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_in_the_United_States
So your faucets (or if you insist, or you live in flint, gas stations) don’t have water? Like in you own argument you are showing all the outrageously wrong choices you make…
People who grow up in food deserts end up with very poor eating choices, yeah.
And unlike me, a lot of Americans apparently can’t even drink their tap water, and more or less have to buy bottled drinks. If the only ones available then are bad ones, you’ll get used to them as well.
All that aside, I just don’t think you understand how expensive it is to live in a first world country. And it’s not like people can just choose to emigrate or move wherever they want, nah, that’s the privilege of cheaper countries or actually wealthy people in the first world.
People who were 10 years older than me got their first apartment loans with like 5k downpayment and as long as they had a steady job. That would be easy mode yeah. But that’s not exactly how the housing market is.
What would you even know, probably live in family owned houses that are on land your family has owned for at least 50 years or smth and which you will inherit. Easymode. And there isn’t much you can’t upgrade to nowadays even in developing countries as to upgrade your home to a first world level easily, even if you’re going full off the grid. Especially in sunnier countries.
Not only I live in a first world country, I emigrated my ass twice. I think people are lazy and look for excuses for their bad decisions (like buying a drink with 30% sugar when water is available two steps away).
So you don’t think food deserts in the US are a real thing? Notice how I’m not American. So how is anyone “excusing their behaviour”? That would mean that either I’d be explaining something about my own life or that I’d be one of those people in the food deserts.
Neither is happening.
Probably easy yo emigrate after you got to save up money on easy mode in some developing country where you can still make bank depending on where you work (but on the internet you can work in first world countries without leaving your home), save up and then set yourself up for success.
It’s easy if someone gives you the resources to actually utilise the best options.
But the best options are usually the most expensive ones. Like buying a bus ticket for a year. No problem for someone even a tad wealthier, but someone who’s paying rent and living from paycheck to paycheck…?
Nah.
Basically you’re one of those people who think poverty is completely avoidable as long as you try hard enough.
The libertarian clows who I’ve heard that from always seem to fail to explain why young Asian girls don’t rule the world since it’s just about working hard.
First time I emigrated was from a communist country where emigrating was illegal, and food was rationed. So tell me more about this easy mode.
So you missed the parts where I ask if you doubt the food desert thing being an actual thing, the part where I point out how I’m not excusing anything by talking about food deserts in a country I don’t even live in.
And you want to make it a dick measuring contest.
This is why people don’t like you, I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_in_the_United_States
According to the USDA’s most recent report on food access, as of 2017, approximately 39.5 million people - 12.9% of the US population - lived in low-income and low food access
You’re essentially blaming at least 40 or so million people to just be making bad choices. As if they could choose to live in crippling poverty under capitalism, and just make the wrong choice?
Just because you had the room and resources to make sources, doesn’t mean people can suddenly do whatever themselves. Do you know what you don’t need to consider when you’ve decided to leave a country for good, especially when your escaping illegally? Well you get to pretty magically skip all the bureaucracy which would’ve worn you down before putting you in a low income low supermarket access and just wearing you down over years.
But no yeah tell me again how Asian teenage girls are our overlords, because “hard work makes you rich”?
Working hard does not work, you have to work smart, use the same cheats the crapitalists do. Never work hard, it’s worthless
Water in bottles in America is often as expensive as soft drinks. And Yeah many places the Water is not good to Drink from the faucet…
So by you own admission there is literally no downside to grab a water and you still choose the unhealthy option. And the same logic is probably applied everywhere.
You dont get it Do you? If you have no money cant buy good food you have to buy stuff that makes Life better… And suggar gives the Illusion that Life is better… You Sound very Privileged… But ive seen you ignore facts so i assume you wont see the side of people with Low income where you can not buy healthy food
Gd does this one slap.
Imagine what one billion coins look like aligned end to end!
24.26mm wide quarter…6065km long line of quarters!
12.8billion in quarters would make a continuous line of quarters all around the earth!
JFC that’s apt.
that’s me falling because of my BPD
Big poopy diaper?
borderline personality disorder
Being poor disorder.
I just don’t see any so-called communist countries without literally the exact same problems, so I can’t believe that capitalism is the cause. I think centralizing everything in a communism would be equivalent to monopolies and oligopolies in a capitalism.
Rather than promote communism we’re better off promoting more direct and fair democracy.
I think the so-called communist countries in the 20th century (like the soviet union) failed mostly because they didn’t motivate enough people to work hard enough.
The 20th century was a time of much innovation, where lots of growth was required to keep pace with the ideas people had. So, for growth you need hard-working people to do it. Capitalism had that because harder working people got higher wages. In communism “we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”.
Nowadays, the situation would be very different because we don’t have so much growth anymore, so there’s less demand for human workers. So even if we can’t motivate that many people to work hard, it would mostly be fine because we don’t need so many people to work in the first place …
I just don’t see any so-called communist countries without literally the exact same problems
This comic refers to wealth inequality and appropriation of wealth by an owner class. This is not what happened in communist countries despite what CIA propaganda would have us believe. The top 1% in the USSR only had about 4% of the total income, compared to 20%ish for modern, capitalist Russia and similar figures for USA and such. Also the top earners were not corrupt bureaucrat politicians, but highly trained professionals like university professors, prominent artists, and other members of the intelligentsia. Similar figures are true for communist Cuba, Maoist China, etc.
Communism can be the most democratic system. For example, Vietnam is right now starting a process of dismantling a lot of bureaucracy and state power and to give power to local communes to have budgetary decisions, administrative power, etc. Luna Oi, a member of the Vietnamese communist party and a youtuber, has a very recent video talking about it.
This post has the word Capitalism™ written at the top. The USSR had a massive prison industrial complex which still holds the record for highest percentage of population imprisoned on earth, the CCP and Cuba are dystopian nightmares.
Lmfao thanks for not arguing against inequality, which was the point of the post, and moving the goalposts to “vague authoritarianism during WW2” because I literally proved you wrong with real-world data.
The USSR had a massive prison industrial complex
Simply not true. The USSR GULAG system was essentially dismantled during the 1950s, when the Nazi threat was eliminated, and the imprisonment rates dropped dramatically afterwards. Mass imprisonment was a temporary measure imposed from the threat of Nazi sabotage of the country, and it was a dark chapter of the Soviet Union that lasted less than two decades, whereas the socialist experiment lasted 70+ years. This is in opposition to an actual ever-growing prison industrial complex like that of the USA, which is systematic because it generates immense wealth for some corporations.
the CCP and Cuba are dystopian nightmares.
Poor Cubans, enjoying higher life expectancy than the USA, highest number of doctors per capita IN THE WORLD, and recently passing a Democratic referendum to reform the constitution in order to enshrine LGBTQ rights. Poor Chinese, seeing increases of 5% of consumer power yearly with an average inflation of 0%, truly harrowing.
Stop spreading false CIA propaganda, the community is called “actual socialism”, not “USA propagandized left-punching faux-socialism”.
China is not very communist if i may say
I explicitly said Maoist China. China’s wealth inequality has risen since the market reforms.
Regardless: the Communist Party of China controls 60% of the stock market and has powerful direction over the economy; it’s the largest producer of Electric Vehicles and batteries, and produces 93% of the world’s Solar Photovoltaic modules, has an extensive high speed electric railway network, promotes reforestation projects in China and abroad, builds civil infrastructure in the global south, and hasn’t carried out wars, sabotages, economic blockades or invasions of any country in the past 40 years. Also, the Chinese people enjoy the highest degree of satisfaction with their government of any country in the world. Sure, they’re not my ideal form of government, in that private companies exist, inequality is still comparatively high, and healthcare and education aren’t completely free as was the case in the Soviet Union, and importantly they’re not helping emancipatory anticolonial projects to the degree that the Soviet Union did.
However, the Chinese model of government is still orders of magnitude than what we have in the west, not just inward but especially outward. Call it by the words you wanna call it, but Socialism with Chinese characteristics is still much better than what we have in the west.
Nothing has effectively changed since Mao, the same exact CCP is in charge of China, in fact real estate rentals continued even after Mao’s famous execution spree.
Proving that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Market economy had been essentially abolished under Mao, and the Deng Xiaoping reforms brought back a market economy. This is a huge change, hardly “nothing changed since Mao”
Not to support communism as a plausible solution, but all “communist” countries were what we call “state capitalist”. Communism is “worker control of the means of production” not “state control of the means of production”. Communism ideologically doesn’t have the “centralised” ownership of everything that you are referring to. But all “Actually Existing Socialist” countries like Soviet Russia, Cuba, China, etc… did have that centralisation.
All I’m saying is that when you see people advocating for leftist, progressive, social democratic, or “communist” ideas none of them are talking about state ownership of all industry.
I think there not being any true communisms despite the attempts supports my point. An Anarcho-Communism fails because it stops being an anarchy the moment one person grabs enough resources and gains enough authority to enforce their will on the rest. An organized democratic communism might work, as I already mentioned in my first comment, but that’s absolutely not what the sort of people in these threads are advocating for. Just scroll through and you’ll see people advocating for destruction of the state entirely, sometimes you’ll even see them mask off and say specifically destruction of western nations.
Hey man maybe don’t compare situations we aren’t in and face the fact that capitalism has failed once again. Think way back when you played monopoly as a kid, how did every game end? Even a boot smoocher like you should be able to comprehend this simple equation.
So you’re allowed to use practical examples but I’m not. You also skipped over my critique of the ideology and not the example, ironically supporting my point on accident when you criticized monopoly because in the previous comment I compared the centralized economy of communism to an oligopoly and a monopoly.
I can smell the leather through my screen.
Maybe you should stop licking boots, then.
Maybe if you weren’t so good at capitalism you could share? I know it’s scary to think about a world where one day you won’t get to wear the boots, but that’s your future son. Also you should revisit what the word “through” means.
Alternatively, learn the meaning of words.
