A great cultural shift to consumerism and money worship

To distract workers from the flatline and decline of wages

The outsourcing of jobs

The Reagan administration basically legalizing stock buy backs

Longer work hours

I think Marx misunderstands/didn't have a full picture of power dynamics

Consumerism is the problem

I've been saying this forever

You make the people poorer

Marx couldnt predict the future, it's really not his fault that in his lifetime capitalism was backed alot more by force than today

@Eoppa

People who have less stuff are better off

To a point of course

When I say stuff I mean consumer gadgets and designer clothes and such

Eh

Tbh

Consumerist cultural is good for the rich

*for the rich*

What's it doing for you and me

Making communists out of us

I mean, the dynamics that guide social and political change were the same in the past, though they are much more robust and difficult to puncture now

That's about it

Why be a communist when you can be a distributist or something not heretical

Eh

This

Aren't we going very off topic

Distributism cant work until the church is purified or Christianity is United

Preferably both

What was the question even

Military spending

No religion based economic system can work West of the German polish border

It's very secular

Well nothing at all is going to happen until we build institutions outside of the current neoliberal paradigm, and the church has the greatest potential to become that (as it previously was).

The church was only so powerful because of an information disparity

It's not "religion based" persay it's just consistent with catholic social teachings

And was designed to be so

Without the information disparity you see the church power weakening even in staunchly Muslim countries

The fundamentalist shit holes are either opening up or locking down everything

What do you mean by information disparity?

Are you spreading protestant garbage that the church needs to suppress information to survive

They do