I’m just curious for the new or existing people? Lemmy.ml has taken a hard turn to the right since the reddit exodus. There’s been a lot of pro-imperialist propaganda being posted on world news, and a lot less diversity of opinion. It feels more neoliberal and neo-con to me.
Does anyone want to share what their political leanings are?
I’ll start; I’m anti-imperialist pro-state regulated capitalism. I believe we should have usage based taxes (toll roads, carbon tax) and luxury taxes, and I disagree with wealth taxes for people with less than $250 million. The state should spend more money on consumer protection in all industries (environment, health, finance, etc.) I believe in multipolarity vs. US hegemony.
Did the book discuss how this is a way that cronies prevent competition? If we all have to have useless jobs to survive, and those jobs tire us out and keep us on a treadmill, then none of us have time to start our own thing (that might eventually compete with their thing / or make us more self-sufficient so that we need their thing less)
I don’t recall if it did, but that’s a good point