Comment Re:I see that Microsoft hasn't really changed .... (Score 1) 163
Consequences of human actions fall into two categories: intended and unintended. As a general rule, the more complex the action, the less of the consequences are intended and the more are unintended.
>I am not talking about Communism here. I am talking about tying the price of basic food and shelter to whatever minimum wage is for the economy.
This is the one of the foundational promises of Socialists and Communists. That we're here to do things like that. To help the ordinary man. It's a well travelled road across Africa. It usually goes like this:
1. Production down. Quality of life starts to go down. Agitators start talking about things like "tying the price of basic food and shelter to whatever minimum wage is for the economy." And actually do something like that once getting into power.
2. Producing, moving and selling products that weren't on high margin becomes a loss leader, as increased salaries eat profits away into losses without increasing productivity.
3. Efficient private farms, logistic companies and stores start to go bust. State has to step in with inefficient collectivized farms, logistics companies and stores to attempt to salvage something out of the ruins of formerly functional sector.
4. Food production and delivery worsens significantly while price remains locked. As a natural result of growing discrepancy in food production vs consumption, availability of food in official stores that remain rapidly goes to "six hour queues, empty shelves". Black market for food rises at much higher prices than before the whole mess started, guaranteeing that officials managing the government and population control retain access to food and don't rebel.
5. Starvation sets in.
This is a cycle that repeated itself many times across Africa and Asia. And recently in South America, where Venezuela almost fell into actual starvation because of this exact cycle.
>There comes a point, which is where we are at now, where they don't want to force you to work at gunpoint. They just want you to die because you have no use for their society
This is actually not about the type of society, but about being a man. All human societies treat men as expendable because we biologically are, and no amount of "social construction" claims will change that. Roots are likely in the fact that women of breeding age are the hard limit on progressing your tribe into the future, and of men, only a small sliver at the top is necessary. That's why we know from genealogical studies that after farming revolution, ratio of male ancestors we have to women ancestors is around 1:15 (some claim up to 1:17). A radical shift from hunter gatherer stages, when it was closer to 1:2. This is also described in the old adage of "women and children are loved for just being. Men are loved for what they can provide". And today when we're even more efficient in terms of production compared to the days of farming revolution, we're probably going to be going beyond 1:20 ratio. As seen in things like dating apps data.
It is what it is. We're primarily biologically constructed, and you're not going to undo millions of years of evolutionary programming because you find it immoral. Understand it, accept it, move past it. It's the only productive thing one can do as a man in this world. It's our lot, and our value is determined by what we can do with it. It's pointless to assign blame, or "hate your oppressor" because the only thing oppressing us is reality.
And to quote Mark Twain, "don't go around saying the world owes you a living. the world owes you nothing. It was here first".
Like I said above, I suspect you walked through the process similar to mine, but you haven't reached the "acceptance" stage as fully as I have. And before you get there on this subject, it gets really dark to just exist within your head.