I see the issue as being that the majority of the workforce can’t find a job like the one you describe. Someone has to work in restaurants, someone has to be the helper, the janitor, the maid, etc. and the jobs, especially in IT at this point, that you describe are few, far between, and take years of training as well as connections and ALOT of luck to get into.

I appreciate this sentiment, but it’s an increasingly unrealistic goal for the majority of people in the west but especially in the US nowadays.

I’m glad someone brought the impact of the collapse of the USSR on the conditions of workers in the capitalist countries into this thread!

I was about to mention unions. If everyone feels the same way as OP and are looking for a solution, they should unite and form unions, as they have more power collectively than in an atomized state, and unions are really the only way to make any real gains for everyone.

Unions and the broader labor movement of the late 1800s to the mid 1900s is the only reason that we have the weekend, 40 hour work week, integrated jobs, minimum wage, social security, overtime, and all the other perks which we all take for granted.

“Marxism has never existed outside of mental exercise. Every single time it has been imposed it has failed to do anything but act as a rhetoric for power and control.”

This, as the last commenter said, is completely ahistorical and incorrect. Every society in which Marxists have come to power was previously unequal, impoverished, unindustrialized, and most of the time a colony of another power. Every time this has happened the countries end up industrializing and eliminating severe poverty within a few decades, as well as providing housing, healthcare, food, transportation, work, and every other basic necessity for each one of their citizens. This can be seen with a simple look past the cold war rhetoric and into the actual history of the world.

Communism was also the primary force which defeated fascism everywhere that it popped up up until the 80s or 90s.

Christians in the US used to be this way. All the way through the first half of the 20th century the majority of protestants in the US were Socialist or Socialist adjacent as you describe. It was only through the state co-opting their movement and the radicals within it merging with the “America First” crowd around WWII that we got the current Christan nationalist movement…

Here Here, Comrade!

Exceeeeppppptttt when the union in question is full of members who’s job it is to put people in cages like animals, most of the time without need. Also when a side effect of the job of the members is murder of innocent civilians and protesters.

Personally, I’d give out a proxy address.

XMRBazaar? Could you point me in the right direction of more info on this? I’m wholly intrigued.

But what about the poor executives?!?!

/s

Correct answer.

I agree, especially if they were put under enough pressure, and were part of a movement without said commitment to non-violence

Exactly!

Thanks!

Thank you for your response, I appreciate you being real about this.

Article from 2015.

It will be interesting to watch if DPRK becomes the more prosperous nation long-term

Its been interesting to see the recent economic successes of the DPRK and to watch how even the capitalist media in the US is starting to concede to it. Now, whether that means that the US is going to try to get them to “open up” like China did is anyone’s guess.

What’s the name of this documentary, if you remember?

Wow! What a thoughtful, genuinely original response!

EXACTLY