• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    the company, the one that literally pays me my money, doesn’t understand my income? I mean sure, maybe i work at multiple companies, and receive multiple paychecks. But like, let’s be honest here.

    who cares, 90% of what is moving through the economy is corpo money anyway.

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      3 months ago

      90% of what is moving through the economy is corpo money anyway.

      Yes, this is the system we’re in by design. The idea is that the private sector can get cheap loans and other handouts (government contracts, private-public partnerships, etc) for organizing the economy and will pass some of that money onto us commoners in the form of wages. It was designed like this because the politicians and their donors believe that it is more productive to organize the economy this way.

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        3 months ago

        yeah, i’m not debating the functionality of the current economic system though. It’s definitely up for grabs i suppose.

        Mostly just pointing out that even in our current economy we don’t really have a good excuse for most of this shit.

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      3 months ago

      Or maybe the world is just a little bit more complicated than “who cares”? Bunch of fucking children in here. Simple solutions generally don’t solve complex problems.

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        3 months ago

        simple solutions don’t solve complex problems, and complex solutions solve complex problems. But complex solutions are generally pretty shitty solutions.

        You should strive to have a simple problem, and then find a simple solution. Otherwise you get BMW cars.

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          3 months ago

          The problem is what it is. Redefining the problem so it’s simple is not a solution to the fucking problem.

          “You should strive to have a simple problem”. Fuckin hell kind of MBA babble is that. Yeah maybe in business where you can make money by inventing “problems” and then inventing solutions to them, but not when it comes to real-life social issues.

          The problem exists. It is complex. We need to fix it.