I feel the need to point out that disdain for the disabled long predates capitalism.

I don’t know if this helps, but your posts and comments always make my day just a bit better whenever I see them. Whatever else, you’re contributing to myself feeling less of a burden from gestures broadly at everything

I live by the golden rule. Not about laws, religion, or any other bullshit. Just a simple do unto others as I would like others do unto me.

If I were disabled, I’d like to be taken care of, so I’m copasetic with disabled people being taken care of.

You don’t pick your disabilities, and it could just as easily have been me instead. That’s why I have zero problems with my tax money helping people who can’t contribute as much. Hope you’re doing alright!

One extravagant trip to Paris by oligarchs burns more resources than you do in your entire lifetime.

You’re not a burden. It’s the people we have to fight against who opposed you having a nice life, regardless of your abilities or disabilities who are the burden. They fight against supporting people with disabilities, old people, kids, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+, other religions, no religion, etc., etc., etc.

We have to fight for the right thing so much and on so many fronts. They are terrible people. If they didn’t fight against us so much, you wouldn’t have to doubt your worth. It’s a them problem, not a you problem, but they like to make it your problem.

Billionaires don’t want to pay their fair share. If no one was allowed to have more than $999,999,999.99 (which no one even needs), we could have UBI, free medical, free tuition, reasonable housing costs, food for everyone, on and on. They make it our problem, but it’s not a problem with us.

I want to second the other commenter and also tell you directly that I love your posts and comments too. It’s always a good day when I see PugJesus

In my eyes, the whole reason we live in a society is to take care of one another. We overcame survival of the fittest and are ideally able to provide more resources than we collectively need so that everyone should be able to live a fulfilling life regardless of their personal circumstances. That’s the society I want to live in anyway. I would never see you as a burden.

I was reading about a team of bankruptcy lawyers. They were talking to a client’s wife about budgeting. They asked her what her minimum expenses for a month were. She said the absolute least she could survive on was $40,000 a month.

I have no idea what your condition is, but I’d bet everything that you aren’t asking for $40,000 a month.

So disabled people should just eat gruel and have the minimum sufficient to survive?

Like, you need to think through what you’re saying here

I’m reminded of an incident in the aughts or early 2010s in which an intra-office correspondence from a right-wing think tank escaped into the public. One of the correspondents expressed distaste over disabled and welfare recipients having access to refrigerators.

As the history of Great Britain has shown us, it will always be tempting to trim the privileges of the poor and disabled, to punish them for their shortfalls in exploiting the capitalist system. In the meantime, the hardest workers, such as USMC front line riflemen and wait staff in diners scattered across the states, the hardest, cruelest work does not make one rich. As a note, the most costly crime in the United States is wage theft, and time theft is a myth dispelled by the ubiquity of bullshit jobs. We’re being robbed by our own bosses who always want more of what they already have in excess of what they can use.

Really, we should intervene with billionaires the way we do drunkards and addicts.

And yet we also praise and worship private equity investors, who do nothing short of create sinkholes in our economy, but only after stripping companies down to their skeletons and leaving them with immense debt to go bankrupt. Mitch Romney managed such a firm before his political career, and he was the Republican candidate for President of the United States before the GOP was repurposed as Trump’s instant army.

The merit or lack thereof that a given person shows doesn’t come out of a vacuum. We shouldn’t be relying on fate and kind bosses (or bad parenting and bad bosses and being the wrong color and the wrong religion etc.) to decide who gets to enjoy what luxury, yet some riflemen escape combat to end up disproportionately homeless, while grifters and financial hacks rent municipal areas for their wedding.

Ideally, we’d all eat the same, and be motivated to make sure the most squalid and most vile of eaters still dine with extravagance, knowing the least of us dines as well as we do, since it’s not anyone’s fault they were born frail, or with avolition, or with blindness or with a foul temperament they cannot overcome without the capital, the financial acumen and the sheer ruthlessness to make it in the late-stage capital world.

But I’d settle for a narrow wealth bandwidth, where the poorest of us has a thousandth, maybe of the richest of us.

We don’t even get that. So fuck capitalism, and death to monarchists.

They’re also implying that employed, not disabled people somehow magically get those luxuries just for participating in capitalism

Disabled person here. Thank you for letting us know that watching other people find joy in things like coffee, eating out, and going on vacations while we sit at home in pain and depression isn’t a form of suffering.

That is an incredibly ignorant and arrogant position to take.

People need more than just 4 walls and a meal. They need enrichment. They need laughter, They Need Joy, and new experiences.

and I have a sneaking suspicion that you’d suddenly stop thinking its out of touch ,and start demanding it as a necessity for your pursuit of happiness, when you’re the one down and out, having smarmy cunts make denigrating comments every time you did some small personal act of self-care.

Essential infrastructure including transport, housing and groceries should be handled by the community, either by workers coop or by municipality.

“I suffered therefore you must suffer too even if it doesn’t have to be that way”

I see this sentiment a lot whenever the subject of increasing the minimum wage comes up. A lot of people think it’s unfair that a teenager should be making $15 $20 an hour when they only made $5 $8 when they were a teen. And they are currently only making around $20 an hour themselves. I have literally seen this exact statement on discussions of increasing the minimum wage:

“No teenager should be making close to the same amount that I am. They don’t need that kind of money.”

You are 100% correct that it’s selfishness and I would add that it’s also a complete lack of empathy as well.

The rich have ingrained in the lower classes a weird sense of superiority over anyone that they deem lowest.

Which is why they fight so hard against making civilization better. Because they must feel superior to those beneath them, and all actions done to improve society result in elevating people up to a higher position.

Its also why minorities, immigrants, and disabled are always the targets… Cause they are the easiest to other and catagorize as “lowest” to feel above.

Not strictly speaking - market economies, even under predominantly capitalist systems, still include a large number of workers’ coops and sole-proprietor firms. Markets predate capitalism, and markets will likely post-date it too.

Capitalism is in reference to systems of limited-liability stock corporations which allow extremely fluid (and divided) ownership of capital by an investor class.