I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit. But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.
Much of the ocean is a desert
You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.
Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.
If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.
If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.
If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.
$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.
70% of $10 is $7.
So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.
Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.
But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.
Also AOC majored in economics (actually one of her two majors) so step the FUCK off my congresswoman tyvm
My dad told me recently that the most important public health workers are garbage collectors and janitors. So much of our health relies on a clean environment. These people do some of the most important work in society. If we learned in dirty public environments full of garbage, we’d all be sick. I cannot thank these people enough for the valuable work that they do.
Shout out to all garbage collectors, janitors and housekeepers!
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Solidarity to all workers of the world! They are the ones who truly keep the world running!
reminder that being a cop’s wife has a higher fatality rate than being a cop
They see the bourgeoisie (only the largest of the bourgeoisie, mind you)
and the police as the bulk of the opposition to revolution. They often
assume that nearly all, or at least most of society will be at their
back (or at least neutral on the sidelines), and that they wont be
forced into conflict before their support can safely grow to those
enormous and overwhelming levels.
And in this, wide angle lens frame, we can only understand that we are
not dealing with thousands of opponents, but tens of millions or more on
a national level, and hundreds of millions on a global scale. The
capitalist system will enter conflict with, at least some, of its
internal systems fully operational, and many members of society tied to
those will side against the revolution. And in understanding this
framing, we can only understand that the highest stages of revolution —
which we can dub “high stage revolution”, would, and does, and has historically, necessarily, resembled war.
It’s not just the means of production that you must seize, but entire societal apparatuses — and you need them to be operating immediately and in a way that cannot be easily subverted or undermined. You
need to control the farms for food, and trucks for shipments. You need
to control resources to supply the factories, and you need more labour
to harvest the resources. You need the power plants to provide energy,
and you need anti-air defences to protect them from attack. So this sort
of project is not a one time “go get yet shovel and dig” type deal —
this is about building a long lasting system that can develop and grow your capacity for revolution and revolutionary war.
It’s not something you can win in a day, a week, or even months, but in
years. And even if it were, the bourgeoisie would mostly escape,
reform, and retaliate through every possible channel. It’s literally
impossible to get them all in one fell swoop, it would be a prolonged
endeavor, especially since new ones would keep emerging until they are
all defeated, encircled, or exhausted of their remaining resources.
^building a long lasting system
Chinese Army in Night Anti-aircraft Drills in East China (2016.07.24.)
