Someone has to stay up and watch for tigers, or spend 11 days nonstop searching for a spring.

FlashMob there is exhibiting a common bias that the only reason to keep traditional group display behaviours around is if they’re religious. This means they are probably from a settler state where colonialism relied on suppressing local culture.

Sorry bud, comparing the haka to animal noises is not “tone”, so fuck off with the disingenuous bullshit.

Now that you mention it, the lunatic fringe right wing that calls every social benefit or progress “communism” is a little bit correct.

The state, and private ownership of the means of production, withers away the more we have things like retirement benefits and weekends and universal healthcare and livable welfare payments.

Each increase in public services reduces the profits of the owner class. As we deal with the oligarchic stages of late capitalism there will probably have to be a lot of nationalizing, or monopoly breakups. Eventually, as governments take on more and more ‘essential’ services, including housing, public ownership becomes normalized.

So, assuming continuing “progress” in economics away from capital worship, and that we survive both energy overshoot and rapid A.I. development:

Co-operatives etc. will eventually take over as the most common economic organization, globally. Co-ownership in many variants. Nationalized industries and assets will likely devolve into more local control. Traded and private companies will have to adapt to less opportunity to skim surplus labour, and innovate more. Fewer rentier activities for passive income will likely be a common policy in many regions. Many will do just fine as gig workers with automated administrative systems, and that time freedom will come to be normalized.

U.B.I. in some forms will be a bridge in a lot of regions, I expect.

[note: this scenario does not appear to be the current timeline for much of the world… work to be done]

Your recent comment history is a series of bitter one-liner quips designed to drag people down.

Just a reminder to non-canadians that a core part of Canadian identity has always been not being American. It’s a quasi-colonized pov. Make it real and it will be life-or-death for many many folk.