This has got real “A cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education” energy.

No poop for you!

Man, what a poop nazi.

I’m basically in the position that I’m driving a car from 1999, and when it finally dies, I’ll either be resigned to riding the bus or finding another aged used car without all this absolute bullshit in it.

Maybe it really is time for the Free Open Source Vehicle.

Xfce is such a great interface.

What, you don’t want to shift gears endlessly while stuck moving between 10 mph and a dead stop on the freeway for three hours?

Either that or the reason they purposefully hire meth-addled freaks is because they want desperate people who won’t fight for any of those things.

Source: Friend who works in a warehouse and has coworkers who are obviously there to get a paycheck to afford their fix and then move on. It’s the company culture. They could choose to hire better people, or mentor the people who could grow, they don’t.

All types of governance and economic systems are susceptible to despotism.

It takes a constantly educated and involved population to fight it.

Socialists don’t hate markets, they hate workers not having any power or democratic choice in how they interact in the market.

Workers owning the means of production just means the workers are doing the same work but they are in ownership of the factory and the profits. They will still sell the products they produce in a marketplace.

Even though this is top comment, this is an underrated answer.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chiropractor-neck-adjustment-caitlin-jensen-b2363357.html