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Has capitalism failed the lower middle class?

>> No.54826185

>>54826169
there is no such thing as class in capitalism

>> No.54826196

>>54826169
>she quit
Lol, what will WMT ever do without her

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>>54826169
>Go to shartmart for last-minute Christmas shopping
>Hear a wagie rambling about "gaslighting"

>> No.54826204

I would have dropped everything and applauded in the middle of the store if I heard that

>> No.54826209

>>54826185
yes there is and the fact that you think otherwise means you're a prole

>> No.54826213

>>54826169
based

>> No.54826215

>>54826185
>people solely by capital utilization
>no classes
B8

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>>54826215
>>54826209
please list the classes in capitalism and how can we tell the difference

>> No.54826286

>>54826215
>>54826213
>>54826169
hey shills, list the classes of capitalism

>> No.54826289

>>54826231
jews at the top. then blue bloods like Boston brahmin, followed by industrialists like du pont family, vanderbilts, carnegies, etc., then upper middle class wagie strivers in finance/medicine/law, then the wagie class of varying levels of discomfort.

>> No.54826306

Walmart attendance police is really easy, typical negro entitlement you get like 7 strikes and you can be 9 mins late every day.

>> No.54826309

>>54826185
What does it matter. We don't live under capitalism. Haven't since 1945.

>> No.54826321

>>54826309
>>54826289
aaa good point
you don't have classes in capitalism
but you do have classes is socialism

>> No.54826325

>>54826306
Oh nooo showing up for work is impossible it's not fair I'm the victim!!

>> No.54826359

>>54826185
>>54826231
>>54826286
>>54826321
Yes goy you are equal, but some are more equal than others

>> No.54826361

>>54826169
Before complaining about capitalism go live in Cuba for a year.

>> No.54826367

>>54826321
viewing things in black and white and confusing your ideals with reality is a marker of autism.

>> No.54826386

>>54826204
This post smells of low t and basedface.

>> No.54826465

>>54826286
thrall
zionist overlord

>> No.54826483

>>54826361
>there are severe problems with this system but it’s okay because other systems are worse
Goyim of the year

>> No.54827092

My GF works at Walmart right now. Should I just propose to her and start a family? I assume she'd prefer that over dealing with Walmart customers for the next 40 years

>> No.54827169

>>54827092
Yes

>> No.54827216
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walmart is murican institution

>> No.54827749

Check

>> No.54827777

>>54826231
>>54826286
There two classes under capitalism: the people who do the work, and the people who own the work. The former are proles and the latter are the capital class.

>> No.54827787

>>54826386
you're smelling your own odor you neckbeard faggot

>> No.54828224

>>54827777
Checked

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>>54826169
Capitalism made me use all my bags on Pool Party
At least they're not ass raping me, Pool 1 is being good with me...

>> No.54829567

The lower middle class's entire existence was based on a bargain made after WW2.

>An unskilled or semi-skilled job will pay as much as a skilled trade or an educated profession

This bargain held for 30+ years, and the various things contingent held for longer than that bargain itself. Unfortunately that bargain is a historical anomaly. It's not a Capitalism thing. The lower middle class is intrinsically ahistoric, which is unfortunate for a wide swath of America.

>> No.54829613

>>54827216
That's beautiful image. God bless the USA

>> No.54829699

>>54826169
Ok so like 100, 150 years ago this individual would have been horse whipped until she couldn't walk if she didn't churn butter fast enough whereas today she gets to do a little dance or whatever she did in the video and the state will just pay her to go the fuck home and flick her bean so is that a success for the worker or no?

>> No.54829892

>>54827216
Fucking KEK at that image

>> No.54829918

>>54826231
>Please define something obviously visible to everyone on Earth so I can pick holes in your words and waste your time instead of discussing anything important because semantics
Fuck off Nosenberg

>> No.54829930

>>54829918
Ironically (probably not since you know what you're doing) yours if the pilpul argument. You don't want to define the thing because you want to keep it slimy and nebulous which allows you to redefine as you see fit.

>> No.54829987

>>54827777
Checked quads of truth

>> No.54830101

Tbh, I'd rather be a slave that works in chains 14 hours a day but within a functional caste system of high quality people with a soul and inner beauty than a middle/upper class no work human among a society of obese nigger cattle that practice sexual degeneracy have bad music have only goyslop for food, etc.

>> No.54830127

>>54826169
Stopped watching the webm after 10 seconds because of that cringe font size gimmick. Fuck you just put normal captions

>> No.54830253

>>54826483
What you call "severe problems with this system" is caused by hyperregulation and hyperplanification. The government is everywhere and taxes are distorting prices and the whole economy. The system isn't failing, the system is being attacked.

>> No.54830427

>>54827216
>But where is the image of th....
>Ohh there is its
Fantastic work whoever made this

>> No.54830466

>>54826286
Fire, water and grass. Electric if you get the yellow version.

>> No.54830489

>>54826204
Then picked it all up and found an open register. Probably complained there was not enough cashiers and self checkout being closed was inconvenient

>> No.54830596

>>54826169
>working in one place for 5 years
>not just any place, but fucking walmart
>not even as a manager or something, just a run of the mill basic bitch stock slave or something
I will never understand these people.
>>54829567
Everything changed when the Fiat Nation attacked.

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>>54826204
>having the slightest compassion for wagie scums, let alone a nigger wagie scum

>> No.54830745

>>54826169
tptb like to believe there is no longer a working class because le internet and smartphones. it is the middle class that is becoming a wasteland. a few make it. the rest put it on credit, they are also wagies but with heavier bags high on copium

>> No.54830751

>>54827777
>There two classes under capitalism
what about the very substantial amount of welfare leeches that produces absolutely no work and yet still receive goods and services
neets fa laif

>> No.54830758

>>54826169
why should the state (or anyone) care about the lower ("middle" lmao) class?

>> No.54830779

>>54826309
*1913

>> No.54830990

>>54826309
1933.
or alternately 1913.

>> No.54831025 [DELETED] 

>>54826361
Capitalism and Free Market Economy are not synonyms. You've been led to believe they are by the bankers and financial elite so you will side with them against your own interests. Capitalists fund the communists. Unions like the AFL-CIO and Teamsters are in cahoots with the CEOs of the majors to drive smaller companies out of business or into merger with the majors. The ultimate goal is a hybrid American-Soviet economy where there is one or just a handful of monopolies and no competition. You own shares of the company stock (ownership of the "means of production") and have voting rights in "our democracy" but you don't get to sit on the board or have any choice in the matter about the direction of the company/country except for yes/no when you're specifically asked, and there are no competitors you can leave your company to go work for.

>> No.54831046

>>54826361
Capitalism and Free Market Economy are not synonyms. You've been led to believe they are by the bankers and financial elite so you will side with them against your own interests. Capitalists fund the communists. Unions like the AFL-CIO and Teamsters are in cahoots with the CEOs of the majors to drive smaller companies out of business or into merger with the majors. Communists and Unionists decry capitalism and billionaires and then go burn down your small business in the name of anti-Capitalism, so of course you think you = capitalist and side with the bankers and financial elite.
The ultimate goal is a hybrid American-Soviet economy where there is one or just a handful of monopolies and no competition. You own shares of the company stock (ownership of the "means of production") and have voting rights in "our democracy" but you don't get to sit on the board or have any choice in the matter about the direction of the company/country except for yes/no when you're specifically asked, and there are no competitors you can leave your company to go work for.

>> No.54831050

>>54826169
Working at Walmart for minimum wage was unrionically harder than my factory job where I get paid $25/hour.
If I get promoted one more time I'll get a comfy office position where I sit in a tower & watch wagies work all day

>> No.54831062

>>54827777
It's not 1830 anymore, Karl. The "Proles" Marx was talking about are now the middle class and are under attack in his name.

>> No.54832567

>>54831062
The concept of the "middle class" is a psyop to divide the proles. Anyone who sells their time for money is in the same boat.

>> No.54833025

>>54831050
the problem is that 50 million americans have IQ's below 85, and most jobs require at least 100 to do the job. WHat are we supposed to do with the service workers who can't do anything else, pay them $25+/hour, give them free housing and healthcare, and make their lives better? All they will do is squander it.

I prefer this system. Let the working classes be a hellhole and whoever can claw their way out deserves it. And if you were in the lower middle class and suddenly found yourself impoverished, you had no business being up here.

>> No.54833028

>>54826231
First you have working class, they do everything that creates value.
Then you have middle class, this is managers who think they’re upper class, and they don’t really do any work.
Then you have the nonces. Their position speaks for itself.

>> No.54833075

>>54826361
>yeah the reason Cuba is poor is because it’s gommunism, not because America bullies everyone it trades with not to sell anything to Cuba if it wants access to the American market.

>> No.54833242

>>54832567
Everyone sells their time for money, money is literally a coupon for time spent working (plus education, plus experience, plus demand), whether that's managing a corporation or mopping the floor.

>> No.54833262

>>54833028
>Their position speaks for itself.
Yes, you certainly are.
>>54833075
>America bullies everyone it trades with not to sell anything to Cuba
Haha, cute that you believe that.

>> No.54833275

>>54833242
>Everyone sells their time for money
False. Only proles do, not the capital class.

>> No.54833318

>>54826361
>oh yeah goy?
>well you should go live somewhere with normal, skinny women who want to have wholesome families with you
>that'll teach you how much you should be loving your tv and plastic shit!
That's a bold strategy, let's see how that works out for them.

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>>54833275

>> No.54833347

>>54833075
>be Cuba
>terrorize your own people
>sponsor terrorism in other countries
>make Justin Trudeau
>assassinate JFK
>try to nuke Florida
>"y u mad tho?"

>> No.54834478

>>54833324
Name a single exception. You can't.

>> No.54834487

Nope. In alternate systems everybody is lower class.

>> No.54834499

>>54834478

The capital class leaves their money in investments over a period of time. They basically make their money from time since time = appreciation. Investing is like lending your resources out to the world interminably, and taking your cut of the resources created.

>> No.54834518

>>54834499
>They basically make their money from time
Their income is a function of the amount of capital they own, not the number of hours they work (if any).

>> No.54834792

>>54834478
>Name a single exception. You can't.
Every capitalist who draws any kind salary or capital gain. Don't presume "You can't", you're not that smart, you stunted adolescent twit.

>> No.54834800

>>54826169
>work shitty low skill job
>instead of using that misery as motivation to get something better you just complain that you deserve more
Non-white and non-protestants were a mistake

>> No.54834824

>>54826169
just quit then.

>> No.54834827

>>54834792
>Every capitalist who draws any kind salary or capital gain.
Are you literally retarded? Capital gains are a function of the amount of capital invested, not the number of hours worked (if any).

>> No.54834847

oh she did quit, good lol

>> No.54835185

>>54826204
I would have done prolapsed anus pirouettes while clapping if I heard that IRL. But honestly, fuck corporate globohomo America. Based wagie. I watched a documentary recently called American Factory and there was a based boy manager telling the Chinese he wished he could muzzle his workers in the US so they could slave away as efficiently as the Chinese do.

>> No.54835366

>>54831046
>Capitalism and Free Market Economy are not synonyms. You've been led to believe they are by the bankers and financial elite so you will side with them against your own interests.

Mate if you want to starve so bad it is easier for you to go to Africa rather than destroy an entire country.

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>>54827216
jesus christ that picture burgers are so fucked

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>>54826169
Companies should give their employees 4 days off for Christmas. Nobody needs to go to Walmart on Christmas.
Same with Easter. But hey, why would the kikes give us days off to celebrate the birth and death of their biggest enemy?

>> No.54835818

>>54826169
>lower middle class
No such thing, that's just called the poor.

>> No.54835975

>>54834827
You need to turn the hamster wheel a little more. Here's a hint:

>"Boss, why would you waste your ____ investing money into ABC? You could earn a better return faster if you put your capital in XYZ."
>"I'd continue investing but I am old and near death, so I'd rather my capital be invested in more short term projects. That is a better use of my ___."

>> No.54836027

>>54835975
Financial managers are employees, not capitalists.

>> No.54836231

>>54833242
As I understand it, the richest don't earn an income. They take capital gains or collateral loans and don't even pay taxes either as a result.

>> No.54836434

>>54826185
>There is no difference between a shareholder having most of his massive revenue coming from dividends, and the factory wage slave.

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>>54835366
Where did you see me praise communism?
I just said both isms are two sides of the same shekel and you were tricked into siding with the bankers and usurers who hired the communists to attack you explicitly to get you to side with them.
A free market economy is not defacto capitalism.

>> No.54837221

>>54830751
>what about the very substantial amount of welfare leeches that produces absolutely no work and yet still receive goods and services
I would think they exist outside of the capital system, much like a tick or flea is outside a human body.

>> No.54837250

>>54826231
Two classes. Owner class and worker class. The owners own business and the worker's don't.

>> No.54837309

>>54836231
>As I understand it,
>don't even pay taxes either as a result.
So you don't understand it. What the rich don't do is earn a wage, they are not subject to income tax rates so the richest bracket could be 90% and still won't apply to them, they'll pay capital gains rates instead. Converting Capital Gains into spendable cash is a taxable event. Collateral loans against the security have to be paid back somehow someway and that involves creating a (usually) taxable event.
Prior to 1913, the only taxes were use taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes and taxes corporate profits, the latter two of which only the rich paid.

>> No.54837335

>>54837250
>and the worker's don't.
Except when the workers do. Like they did at Amazon when 1/3rd of their compensation was in Amazon stock.
Except you don't know what that even looks like and you can't articulate what owning the means of production even actually means in reality.

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>>54827216
>>54835709
>you can't make this shit up

>> No.54837389

>>54827777
Pretty much. There are sub divisions but this is the main class distinction.

>> No.54837476

the #1 reason capitialism fails in the current world is economic friction, which is mostly people's inability to move. desu the United Stats has fully transitioned to a high end service economy with select cities having international status. Poor people need to fucking leave. There are no jobs for them anymore

>> No.54837509

>>54826169
That lady is incredibly based. She did right to quit her job. Plenty of other jobs to go around, Walmart is sustained by US taxmoney anyways.

>> No.54837593

>>54826169
the US and the West have been in a command and control economy since 1914 or 1945. Depends on your landmark

>> No.54837604

>>54837309
That's true as far as what I posted. I left out the fact that apparently many times they use tax havens where capital gains are not taxed at all. That's how it was explained to me, but not being rich, I don't know the particulars.

>> No.54837638

>>54826169
She fails to realize through brainwashing and " racial ignorance " that this is because she IS replaceable. If she died it literally would have an infinitesimal effect on Walmart

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>>54837604
Usually said "Tax Haven" is a charity or NGO where they park their stocks and 98% of their wealth (giving it all to charity), and then take a modest salary of a million or something to run said charity while using the charity assets to fund their day-to-day expenses in the guise of philanthropic work, 'fundraiser' parties, museum showings and so on.
They still end up paying taxes on any income and any salaries for the people who manage their companies (which the charity still owns), and their charities.

>> No.54837814

>>54837748
Okay, thanks for the info, Anon. Cheers!

>> No.54837997

>>54837335
>when 1/3rd of their compensation
"Compensation" means what an employee is paid by an owner based on the hours they work. So no, they are not owners anymore than if they used their cash wages to buy the stock.

>> No.54838686

>>54826169
if someone quit their job like that around me i'd start clapping uncontrollably

>> No.54839680

>>54826169
Unironically why should I care about anyone else if I’m doing well?