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  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mltoFediverse@lemmy.worldI am in the fediverse now!
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    12 days ago

    Hell yeah! Welcome!

    Lemmy is a lot of Linux nerds, trans people, leftists, and people who are really mad that those people are here lol

    The block button is your friend, curate your own experience, and enjoy! Lemmy, like any internet forum, can be a bit toxic. A lot of that depends on what instance you’re viewing it from, so don’t be afraid to instance hop a bit until you find a community you enjoy, and is federated with other instances that have content you like.






  • How do you explain that 99.99% of people are super happy living their lives with just enough money to have somewhere to live and pay for food and some vehicle?

    Further, how do you explain that, for most of human history, we haven’t lived in economic systems that reward greed in the way Capitalism does? Saying human beings are neurologically wired to behave in an especially greedy way, under Capitalism, is just recency bias.

    Is that urge extent in people? Sure, but so are kindness, generosity, and plenty of other traits that run counter to greed and selfishness. To say that the negative ones incentivized by the economic system we live in are somehow more natural than those others, is nonsense.






  • So that is a real aspect of women’s relationship to wage labor under capitalism, but like… That’s not the fault of the CIA, or even feminism.

    Feminists famously want women to be paid equally for their work. Alexandra Kollintai was a Marxist feminist living in Russia around the time of the Revolution, and regularly talked about the importance of equal pay for women.

    Women in the United States were always a part of the workforce, but it was largely working class women, in textile mills and such, who were working.

    World War 2 required many women, across class divisions, to enter the workforce, even into more traditionally masculine fields. The the post war 50s, with its emphasis on rigid, traditional gender roles, forced women back into the home, which produced a lot of resentment among many women. Their access to work, financial independence, and a greater sense of social purposes was suddenly stripped away.

    This is the context that 2nd wave feminism, with its focus on women’s ability to work outside the home and financial independence, comes out of.

    Issues like women being paid unequally for the same work are systemic, and often done unconsciously. That doesn’t make them less of an injustice, but it does mean that the source of the problem is often more people than blaming a specific group, like the CIA, for it.