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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or you'll get more communist when you have people to protect, like children or friends who start getting sick now that they're not young anymore

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I became a socialist because I was an "essential employee" during the height of the pandemic. I was treated like shit by my company, the customers, and the government while they sung my praise. I watched my grandpa get good cancer treatment with the VA (shocker, I know, but it happens) while my sister and grandma had to fight insurance for cancer treatment.

We can't make a perfect world, but we can make a better one. And it starts with a socialist economy.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I became much more progressive after living in a “blue state” for much of my adult life. It’s hard to miss that the most successful economies in the us are also the ones who pay most attention to quality of life. We can look at the contrast in our neighboring states, and see the advantages brought by near universal healthcare, investments in an excellent education system, care about the environment, higher minimum wage, support for unions, and so much more

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're referring to Nordic Social Democracies, they fund their safety nets via Imperialism, they can't exist without impoverishing and exploiting the Global South. It's the epitome of the Labor Aristocracy.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, sorry,I was being us-centric - it seemed like that’s where the thread was.

As one very specific example, when COViD funding for school lunches ended, some us states decided to no longer provide free school lunches. Massachusetts passed a “millionaire tax” and funded free school lunches out of that

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

It's the same issue as the Nordics, the US is a de-industrialized nation that makes the bulk of its profits off of Imperialism.