We can decide, if we've got a baseline level of human goddamn decency,

That a person who works a week's hours deserves to be able to live, and then some.

I'm fighting for more personally. I'm aiming for fully automated luxury gay post-scarcity space communism, but it's a start.

Because, and here's the bitch of it:

We have enough.

We have enough food, that nobody need be hungry.

We have enough medicine, that nobody need be sick.

We have enough homes, that nobody need be homeless.

We've got enough, together.

That means that our issue is distribution.

That's the point of an economy, after all. To move labor around asynchronously - so that if I make pizza every day, and you sheer sheep once every three months to make sweaters, we're both always fed and warm.

Any deficit - any hungry people, or sick people, or unhoused people - is a failure of that distribution.

Because - and I know folks aren't used to thinking of it like this, but I promise you it's true - Capitalism is a technology.

We invented it, to distribute resources effectively. To move things that are needed to places they are needed.

That technology can run well, or it can break. Just like any other tech.

If it's not getting the things that are needed to the places they're needed, it's breaking.

If value is disappearing into the vaults of dragons who sit grinning atop wealth enough to buy and sell nations,

it's breaking.

But that's all in the future. That's the argument I *want* to be having.

For now, in the one we ARE having, can we at least make sure that motherfuckers can live?

Please?

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Also PS - I know we've normalized it, but y'all realize it's bullshit that you get paid at the end of two weeks, right?

In an era of e-transfers and direct deposits, there's no reason you couldn't be paid for the hours at the end of every day.

Instead, you're giving your boss a two-week interest-free loan on your labor.

And then YOU have to go to a payday loan place to make ends meet.

Fuck you, give me my money.

This thread is dedicated to everyone who heard Ne-Yo say "I knew my rent was gon' be late about a week ago - I worked my ass of, I still can't pay it though. But I've got just enough..."

And just felt that in their fucking bones.