• DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    18 days ago

    Is it just me or is this just generally the attitude the porks push on Americans?

    porky-happy: “Your dream is to work a job? Why? The browns and my AI will do the work for you! You should all become self-employed plumbers! Everyone should be a little individual businessman and nothing else!”

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      18 days ago

      yes, because it realigns the worker into a petite bourgeois class position unless/until they are reproletarianized by the bourgeoisie proper. home/land ownership as the primary means of developing wealth serves a similar purpose as does tying retirement to stonks-up