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My son did a thing, so I said "Good job". Then I punched him straight in the face. "This is a political metaphor!" I screamed into his sobbing bleeding broken nose.
Now my wife says she's filling for divorce and taking the kids. I've been fired from my job for punching a coworker while saying "This is a political metaphor!" as well.
Just goes to show the state of free speech in this country. I swear to God, it's the damned Communists in the schools. They ruined everything.
I asked my dog about this, and she had some good points:
First of all, that's Duplo not Lego.
Second of all, "the means to my Lego"?
Third of all, theft is theft under both capitalism and socialism. If he didn't have an agreement with his dad that his dad could take half the tower, the dad is simply a thief. And theft is theft under both systems. And if his dad is supposed to represent "the government" or something, and taking half his stuff is supposed to be taxation, taxation happens under both capitalism and socialism.
Also, taxes aren't theft. You get something in return for it, usually services and infrastructure. Dad didn't give anything back for the stolen Duplos. Says my dog.
(Oh, and please tell your dog I said hi.)
You don't so much get something in return for taxation as you already got it. Other people's taxes created the conditions for your income and now part of your income goes to creating the conditions for other people to generate value and income. It's a raw deal if you have a very high income and you only get infrastructure and healthcare back but realise that the whole foundation of your wealth, safety, and happiness comes from other people's taxes and then hopefully it is okay to pay taxes to give those things to other people. Additionally, this is capitalism so if you have a lot of income it's because other people are generating more value than their income. Society (and therefore taxes) is the only thing that can make that tolerable.
I mean those look like off brand building bricks. Also duplo is a lego brand
That isn't just any duplo, it's specifically LEGO Duplo. That's like calling Word word instead of Microsoft Word or Chrome chrome instead of Google Chrome. What about Linux instead of ***/Linux?
Your dog should take extra lessons. How's it passing school not knowing this?
Duplo is just as much "Lego" as Technic is. They're all made by the same company.
Don't be pedantic; that's what ruined Reddit in the first place.
It seems like everybody has a different theory about wHaT rUiNeD ReDdIt
What ruined Reddit is the enshitification.
As far as the people themselves go... A message board is a message board. People on Lemmy hate to hear it, but there is no difference between Reddit and Lemmy in that regard. Lemmy's population is just smaller.
there is no difference between Reddit and Lemmy
There's a number of large differences, in fact
Many things ruined Reddit. So many things.
Some even say Reddit ruined Reddit
It was a number of things
For the pedants complaining that they called the Duplos Legos:
LEGO is also the company name, and they make Duplo. Therefore Duplo are LEGO. If you ask for some Lego and get duplo, that's on you for not requesting an itemized list of every single specific part you wanted by number. My pedentry knows no bounds. Bow down before me. 😤
What does “means of production” even mean in 2025? It’s not like we all work in a shoe factory
Something that produces goods or services.
For example, a musician makes music as a service, and that music can be made into a commodity either with a packaged good such as a book of sheet music or a method of storing the music (a file or disc), or you can sell tickets to hear the music.
What does “means of production” even mean
In Marxist theory, the "means of production" refers to the physical inputs used to produce goods and services. This includes things like tools, machinery, land, raw materials, and factories. Essentially, it's everything needed to carry out the process of production, excluding human labo
I write software. The software that I write don't belong to me. The owner of the software I write makes money of it. It's "means of production" and the product itself simultaneously.
No, dad has a point. Kid had half of his labor taken in order to provide for others. Get him a pension, healthcare, and some robust workers rights
I asked my insufferable pet cat about this, and they dropped a wall of text on me:
It's not socialism and this exact notion that "socialism is when workers get compensated fully and fairly for their work and when they own the means of production" has been thoroughly called out for being nonsensical. Workers merely owning their means of production is a minor improvement, but it doesn't abolish capital or exploitation given how markets and commodity production still exist.
Now, in order to compete within that market for profit, workers have to exploit themselves by reducing their wages, increasing their own work hours to produce more goods to outflood their opponents so they essentially turn to collective capitalists.
A person under this system also can't make full value of their labor, simply because there's taxes that are used to fund public sectors such as education, healthcare, etc (it's necessary though). People also are different, some can work more intensely with higher tempo due to how they're built, and others might not be able to put in the same amount of labor, thus it's impossible to have "fair compensation" without uprooting commodity production, doing away with money completely and instead producing things to fulfill everyone's needs. Only then can things truly be "fair".
it’s impossible to have “fair compensation” without uprooting commodity production, doing away with money completely and instead producing things to fulfill everyone’s needs. Only then can things truly be “fair”.
That's Communism, not socialism. Sure, socialism has some similarities to Capitalism, that's because Socialism was never the end goal, but a transition period between Capitalism and Communism.
workers have to exploit themselves by reducing their wages
Workers don't 'exploit' themselves, workers decide if it's worth doing the work for what they can reasonably expect in return or not. If they decide it is worth it, it's something they chose for themselves, not even close to the same thing as a Capitalist squeezing every last cent of 'profit' from you as they possibly can and basically forcing you to do it by making it impossible to survive if you don't.
A person under this system also can’t make full value of their labor, simply because there’s taxes that are used to fund public sectors such as education, healthcare, etc (it’s necessary though).
They still get the full value of their labor. Taxes used to benefit the community benefit workers as well, because they are members of the commuity. Capitalists under capitalism still (are supposed to) pay taxes- and so do workers. Workers who are more fairly compensated for their work and have to pay taxes are better off than a wage slave who isn't fairly compensated and still has to pay taxes.
That is the comparison to make, is Socialism better than Capitalism? Yes. Is Communism better than Socialism? Yes. It makes little sense to tell workers trapped in a Capitalistic system that Socialism isn't good because it's not as good as Communism.
People also are different, some can work more intensely with higher tempo due to how they’re built, and others might not be able to put in the same amount of labor
That's exactly why you don't try and be little capitalists. You can and should still care for people who are in that situation. Workers who receive a more fair share of their labor will be better equipped to help out the members of the community who are less fortunate than them, not less.
it doesn’t abolish capital
No, and it's not supposed to. It just transfers it to the people and takes it out of the hands of the ruling class. "Capital" in an of itself isn't a bad thing, It's when Capital exclusively owned by a small ruling class and used to exploit and siphon wealth from the working class (Capitalism) that's when it becomes a problem.
I asked my cat about this, and he said,
"You're literally describing capitalism, Ruairidh. Do you not pay taxes, you dumb fuck? Now scratch my head, just a little, and then give me treats."
I didn't ask my cat anything. He just ran up, smacked me, called me a loser, and stole a chicken thigh off my plate.
That's a kleptocat, clearly just bypassing capitalism/communism and going straight to the end game
Life lesson = thieves will deflect criticism of the corporatist oligarchy supremacists by calling their theft socialism. Gimme your sandwich, commie.
"So now we're going to start practicing capitalism. Buy your own fucking blocks, you freeloading piece of shit! I don't even want these, but you sure as shit can't have them!"
That 18 month old’s name? Julian Delphiki.
Ok, that's a solid reference even if I won't read those anymore. Kudos.
I asked my alter ego whether that definition of socialism was right and he said that I should ask my other alter ego, who said that this looks shopped, but couldn't confirm for some reason, so he went on to ask one of his sockpuppet imaginary friends whether this was true and came back with a slap to my face.
So, there you have it, slap on my face/true
But also the dad was so stupid from Trumptard brainwashing and AI brain rot that he was unable to read the 5-line paragraph that his toddler authored, so the message was never received anyway.
My god reddit being pedantic is the understatement of the year...
