Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024

The fact that the idea of better salaries, a sensible healthcare and overall better quality of life is contentious in capitalism should raise huge red flags. But here we are

What pushed me over was realizing corporations torpedoing a company and laying everyone off just to increase profits for one quarter and being rewarded for this wasn't just "bad Capitalism", it's what the system was designed to actually do.

I noticed many of these concerns over 50 years ago, but until the last 10 years or so I felt like I was the only Socialist in this Country. I'm happy to see that younger people are much more aware of the harm that we all suffer under capitalism and are open to an expansion of social programs.

in an end-of-year employee evaluation, i told my employer that we deserved a raise, not just for our hard work, but because me and my coworkers are the face of our company. i hope nothing bad happens to me or my coworkers because of this, but i want to continue striving for us to have a better quality of life. this channel keeps me believing that things can improve <3

The cruelest thing about capitalism is that "only caring about the line going up" is not even because of the greed of that small group of unelected capitalists, but because if they don't, they will immediately be replaced by capitalists who care even more about the line going up. This is a social law of capitalism that operates relentlessly like a law of nature and cannot be fought by the goodness of any individual capitalist.

"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole,"-Karl Marx

If an economic system allows innocent people to die for profit, then that system should NEVER be allowed ever....

Excellent as always! One thing worth noting, however, is that the primary goal of the capitalist class isn't really maximizing their profits; it is maintaining and reinforcing the capitalist class structure. They would gladly sacrifice some profits/wealth in the name of maintaining or fortifying the capitalist class structure that gives them their lofty status and power in our capitalist society.

One way that oligarchs protect their wealth is by redirecting the people's anger from them to other people

Greetings from a person born in the USSR and thank you very much for your videos. Yes, in our country it was not possible to fully implement socialism, but progress was made on the way to it - we received free public education, free housing, and free medicine. We probably haven’t been able to overcome human greed and stupidity, but today, in the age of free information and the Internet, people have more opportunities to receive information, think and analyze. Never forget that the rich will commit any crime in order to maintain power.

The poverty in the so called richest country on earth is absolutely staggering! What a cesspit of a country 💩

”If these ten men were to lose 99.999 percent of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99 percent of all the people on this planet” That is soo fucked, how can we allow this?!

"CEO's make 300 times what workers make." If a working life time is 40 years then CEO's get 7.5 LIFETIMES of worker pay EACH YEAR... That's vampiric.

I've always felt that a company should NOT be more powerful than a federal government. It actually makes no sense. How can a corporation wield more money, control, and power than a government? It's nonsensical.

Even before I knew it had that definition, I believe I was a socialist. I have long believed everyone should have a home, food, healthcare, and education, as a simple baseline

I don’t understood how the pandemic didn’t show most people how damaging capitalism can be in such raw American form.

- If you loose your job because the company cut it due to less demand for its products, your company rationally acted as it was intended by the system. - If you then cant afford your rent anymore and get kicked out by your landlord, he acts as the system demands - realizing the maximum amount of profit his property can generate. - If then the police has to kick you out of the flat or imprisons you after you desperately stole some food in the super market, it is fulfilling the role of the state within this system as intended, securing the profits of landlords/owners of food companies. - If your country goes to War somewhere in the global south to secure natural ressources for its bourgoisie, it acts as the system intended, Capitalism is NOT build to benefit society as a whole

as an army veteran the military taught me the value of socialism especially when all my needs...food, clothing, shelter, medical, pay, etc. was given to me by the government but unfortunately the military exists to help capitalists...

Realizing people couldn’t afford a ~$3000 tuition at my in state college. I grew up in private school and wealthy public schools so when I went to college it surprised how many had student loans even for at relatively cheap price. Like people couldn’t afford to set aside $600 per month for a chance at class mobility made me realize peeps aren’t lazy or overspending it was crap pay not to mention the language of marketing yourself I encountered made me feel less than human

i’m sorry to hear that you felt the need to leave the Nebula platform. As someone who values independent creators and isn’t a fan of feeding money, hungry morally ambiguous, mega corpse I enjoyed supporting you and others with my Nebula membership. good luck with your future endeavors!