So there seems to be this attitude of "Fuck you, I got mine," in this country. Why give people a home to live in for free when you've spent your entire life working/paying rent? Why provide hungry people with free food and clean water when you've been surviving on ramen noodles and off-brand soda? The answer to these questions and my initial point is, we all should access to these things regardless of whether or not they're able to work.
Finland figured this out, and it's cheaper to just give people a place to live so that they can then get a job, however again the problem of labor in this country is that everyone is working more than ever but still not making ends meet, and that is by design. Capitalist want our labor but do not want to pay for it.
Libertarians will tell you, "Oh you don't have the right to earn a living, but you do have the opportunity to earn it." The problem with this sentiment is the fact that they think they are in a position to dictate to you what you "earn," while they are the same people exploiting your labor and are the reason you're working three jobs and still not making enough to live. When the "free market," says you should be homeless or go without food, is it really a "free market?"
Which brings up the false dichotomy that people operate under that the scary "leftists," just want to tell everyone how to spend their money and how their taxes should be spent while not acknowledging that under our current system that's exactly how it works right now, just instead of the government providing services, services we need to exist in society, are provided by private interests that funnel public money into their private coffers while we get evicted from our homes and live out of our cars.
When Republicans and Democrats speak of "freedom," they are not talking about you and mean, they're talking about corporations, which thanks to Bush Jr. are now people and are able to spend as much money (speech) as they want to gas light the rest of society into privatizing things that used to serve a public good; like schools. School vouchers for private schools is just a way to divert your tax dollars to religious charter schools that will deliver worse results and probably close within a year or so because their business model is unsustainable; but they still got your money.
Is all lost? Not exactly, you can become "woke," and call the bull shitters out on their bull shit and push back. Remember, these same people only think democracy belongs outside of the workplace because they control the public narrative, but the social contract applies to us all so why keep contributing to a system that only seems to benefit the interest of the owning class at the expense of everyone else? I should take my own advice here, but maybe we all should be voting for people who actually represent our interests and start grass root organizations but if voting got us here in the first place, will it also get us out of it? As long as both parties serve capital, I doubt things will change.
TL;DR Eliminate capitalism while we still can or we will be nothing more than digital serfs working the Farmville fields as our society and environment collapse around us and it's too late to reverse it.
