Hey now, you're also free to exploit others. And to really win capitalism, just become the guy that gets to decide if someone else becomes homeless aka a landlord.
There's an odd moment in Attack of the Clones. Anakin and his mother are "slaves." But they live in a multi-room dwelling all by themselves and Anakin has enough free time and resources to work on both a pod racer and a DIY protocol Droid.
My theory is this: in Star Wars you are either self-employed (like Boba Fett or Max Rebo), part of a military or quasi military organization, a business owner (like Dexter Jettster), or... you are a "slave."
Their definition of "slave" ranges anywhere from literal chattel slavery all the way up to anybody who is employed for wages, the alternative to which is dying in the street. Their language just reflects the raw reality that it's only a matter of degree that separates chattel slavery from wage slavery.
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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 336d
reddifuge@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 336d
3rd choice is kill the rich.
ililililili@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 336d
That's just dying in prison with extra steps (deserved).
reddifuge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d
Nah, you just have to do it at scale. Ask the French, not pussy Americans.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 336d
Hey now, you're also free to exploit others. And to really win capitalism, just become the guy that gets to decide if someone else becomes homeless aka a landlord.
Sergio@piefed.social · 6 pts · 336d
And if you exploit others well enough, you can be a person who just owns homes that no-one lives in, as investments.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
There's an odd moment in Attack of the Clones. Anakin and his mother are "slaves." But they live in a multi-room dwelling all by themselves and Anakin has enough free time and resources to work on both a pod racer and a DIY protocol Droid.
My theory is this: in Star Wars you are either self-employed (like Boba Fett or Max Rebo), part of a military or quasi military organization, a business owner (like Dexter Jettster), or... you are a "slave."
Their definition of "slave" ranges anywhere from literal chattel slavery all the way up to anybody who is employed for wages, the alternative to which is dying in the street. Their language just reflects the raw reality that it's only a matter of degree that separates chattel slavery from wage slavery.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 336d
3rd option guillotine and Vive la révolution
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 336d
all westerners; especially americans; are too brainwashed to ever consider moving beyond the democrat/republican options.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d
Ah, the American FREEDOM (TM)
mistermodal@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 335d
Woods property too
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 335d
Shite
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml · -17 pts · 336d
You're free to do other systems if you want. This is the thing I don't understand: just get some folks together, but some land, and do non-capitalism.
Work or die has always been true for all of human history.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 336d
"If you're homeless, just buy a house" energy
frog@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 336d
After using all that money to buy the land, just pay the property tax!
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 336d