I dont have a house or a retirement to fight for.
Actually, this is what you’re fighting for in Capitalism:
Not for yourself, though, rather for a few who add up to less than 0.0000375% of Humanity.
Look man, I’m all for criticisms of capitalism, but stuff like this ain’t gonna cut it…
Yes because communist countries have ellegant urban planning 🤡
If only there were more than these two dreary instantiations of differing economic frameworks, but as alas, I know only of these two pictures.
This is the kind of socialist hellscape the capitalist is protecting us from.
Edit: Dense mixed used urban development, biking to work, walking to your nearest weekly market, buying unprocessed food for groceries and common public area easily accessible by foot for old people where they can mix with other generations.
Hmm but what if I want to make thousands of people work for me without giving any excess value created by their labour to anyone else?
Don’t you miss:
EDIT: Oh dang, people don’t like to fight for this either :(
In Yugoslavia it was actually quite the opposite. Old commie blocks in Serbia all have big green spaces around them and playgrounds, while new buildings are all built on top of each other with no room to breathe and no greenery in sight.
There are many reasons to dislike the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, but these tenements are not it. Quite a lot of people prefer to buy these sorts of apartments over newer ones simply because they are built better. Keep in mind that those in these sorts of pictures haven’t been properly maintained in years. They are 40-50 years old, it’s normal for any building that has not been taken care of to look worn down - but if the owners of these apartments put in the effort to modernise their buildings, they are very comfortable. I live in one and it’s great!
Road of Bones:
Oh, and sad old folks:
(Sorry, the app I use limits images per posts. Devs are good people, so I gladly endure the inefficiency!)
Urban sprawl, car dependency, vinyl rubbish, famine pensions.
Bottom right pic hits hard. I plan to die in some fashion long before that. Fuck planning or saving for retirement if it doesn’t matter.
In other news, Denmark raised their retirement age to 70 recently, and our conservatives in the US have been squawking about the same. LOL.
What the fuck is the point of this shit existence for anyone who can’t become rich as a celebrity or wall street psycho? 90% of us are just here so the wealthy can have yachts, Lamborghinis, and mansions.
This place sucks.
The right wing party in Australia (a few elections ago) increased retirement age but with a “rolling date”. Meaning they all get to retire on time with the earlier date but the later you were born the later your retirement age. They literally set their retirement age in stone then fucked younger generations on their way out. It’s still currently rolling out, recently increased to 67 in 2023.
(In more ways than one bit this one is particularly obvious and idk how they got away with it).
Such an old and simple antibiotic
Oh, wait! I know this one!!
No, it isn’t.
It’s so odd how much hate pop figures get, from people whose apartments are filled with anime posters and figures
I’m not into anime but I definitely think Funko pops are hideous and not cute at all
As a millennial I know what it’s like to take comfort from something that is crass commercial, and ultimately bad for the environment (looks guiltily over at Switch)…
I share your perspective, but I’m not sure how to get people to see how to do better, because I myself am manipulated by similar forces, yet all I do is grumble about it as I fork over my money for the latest so the company can sell me little bits of the wonder I felt as a child back to me.
I don’t even blame them. It’s a big circle and I’m part of it.
PS. Sorry I wrote this as the caffeine was just kicking into higher great. It might be a bit much.
In general, I think it comes down to the fact that they all just look low effort. They’re formulaic, which to someone who puts out passionate art, it’s kind of just insulting.
And as much as I hate to say it, that’s all preference. I don’t personally think they’re “wrong” or “not art”. Just not very well done or original.
It’s very much bored ape energy, yeah
well and they’ll all end up in landfill eventually.
“You don’t like this thing, yet you do like this other, different thing that falls into a vaguely same broad category. Curious.”
I’d fight for those sexy ladies too.
I’d be the filling in that Oreo.
I’m curious. What would a “communist” utopia look like?
Yeah, I’d assume we’d think it would be like star trek. But it would be radical to surf solar flares out in space.
Why would you go immediately to communism?
Here you go: https://youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y
I would consider communism of some sort to be the ideal and the direction we should strive for. It doesn’t have to be communism but I’ve always wondered what a purely stateless and classless society would look like. It’s just hard for me to imagine, being the animals that we are, imbibing such a society
Solarpunk
I kinda hate this pic.
- There are worse fates than living in the suburbs, lol, what? If the experience seems bland remember it’s not an infrastructure ‘problem’ but a demographics one. And bland beats ghetto -> warzone.
- You can easily opt out of consumerism, they haven’t made it illegal yet! Of course, if your life has mostly just consisted of ‘going from little kids’ toys to bigger boi toys’, that’s vacuous and depressing but, again, it’s a personal decision.
- Car-centric cities and infrastructure is a result of greed and bribes. An argument can be made that capitalist societies more easily push people into antisocial selfishness though, of course.
- Retirement homes are, again, a ‘skill issue’ that’s very prevalent in certain well known communities and almost nonexistent everywhere else. Raise and love your kids and be family oriented and one of them will take care of you (as it happened to my grandma, and it’ll happen to my mom and MIL, and I assume, God willing, to my wife after my passing). Again, I don’t know how much of this behaviour can be ascribed to capitalism.
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