• somename [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    This is such an aesthetics focused, vibe based, reach of a criticism lol. The North Hollywood-Long Beach bourgeois housing line. He’d have the same money regardless of where he bought his house, and he’d have earned in the exact same way.

    His material relationship to how he generates that money is what matters. He’s not a capitalist. He’s not even a petite bourgeois. The exact location of his zip code isn’t a defining ideological marker.

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      1 year ago

      I was being a bit hyperbolic cuz I was feeling argumentative last night, but if you want an actual take, I think being that rich is gauche, even if you acquired it without exploitation. I think if you consider yourself a socialist but you end up loaded cuz you wrote a popular novel or something like that, you should cap your income at a certain level and give the rest away. Mind you I still put that level pretty high, like fairly successful dentist high, enough to live a kush as fuck life even in the richer parts of the imperial core, but you should still cap it.

      Socialist movements of the past didn’t really do a deep analysis of everyone’s income to determine which rich people deserved their wealth and which didn’t, if you had loads of fucking dosh while others were homeless, they’d take your shit. I think it’s dumb to support that happening while not at the very least attempting to practice what you preach in the here in now, save what you need to keep you and your loved ones at a nice middle class existence and give the rest to Doctors Without Boarders or something. It’s what I’d fucking do if any of the dumb SciFi stories I wrote ever got bought by Netflix and I kinda expect commie streamers to do the fucking same.

      Also, fyi I think Hasan is overall more good than bad, and really the house wasn’t really what pissed me off so much as his purchase of a sports car. I don’t think those things should even exist as a socialist, yet you’re driving one to Coachella? Get a fucking Honda Fit asshole.