OK, yes, among the homeless, they have very little choice in what they consume. But among the middle and even working classes, they have some amount of choice when it comes to consumption.
Psychedelics, dialectics, literature and art.
If middle class spending went down significantly, many "too big to fail" corporations would become insolvent, leading to massive depression, creating better material conditions for Revolution. It would absolutely fuck up Porky's whole system.
It's not in their immediate self interest, necessarily. Being able to work less would be an immediate benefit, perhaps. But their main motivation would be to avoid ecological catastrophe, liberate their fellow humans (and themselves) from wage-slavery, and ultimately, post-Revolution, create near paradise on Earth. Middle class people, by and large, live empty lives, and many would love to trade their material luxuries for more meaning in life, I'm certain.
Alexander Peterson
Fuck all of you communist larping figs!! you're somehow even worser tan halfchan"s /x/
SAGE
Evan Kelly
Yeah, Porky, don't worry. It's all just a LARP! ;^)
Ryder Russell
SAGE
Joshua Fisher
Just kidding, Porky!
Dylan Cook
it is not just homeless people who use foodbanks there is such a huge thing as in work poverty. for starters, even the physical access to most shops for most people is not great, consider transport is a cost, consider time spent getting there and not being working or at home with kids is a cost, consider reducing caloric intake or nutrition in any way a cost, consider considering all this while trying to consider the costs of all of the above on a tight budget. I was talkking about revolutionary praxis not an evenings entertainment you still haven't justified this huge if. so if the middle class stop spending voluntarily they will starve the destitute into revolution… This is really honestly your position? Porky would be absolutely untouched, You think porky can't profit off a starving population? then they quite simply will not do it. shame about the mortgage and the private schools These ideas have been around as long as there has been capitalism and yet the middle class has not revolted, why? This is bullshit from the movies. Sure marriages break down and whatnot but that really is just the ebb and flow of life. You think pleasant dinner parties and school runs is all that terrible and empty compared to scraping together benefits to feed your kids cornflakes without milk every day? Its nobel savage romanticism and fetishisation of the "simple" life whatever that means in the age of drone strikes
Samuel Brooks
I honestly just don't feel like responding to all this ignorance.
Jaxon Price
They can't profit off a shrinking economy. The whole banking/debt system collapses in a shrinking economy, governments become insolvent, etc…
Justin Nguyen
So no response then
What do you call the recessions from 2007 onwards from which porky profited?
Nolan Martin
They can profit in the short term by buying discounted assets, but if the economy isn't growing, most loans won't be repaid, and then banks become insolvent, and the economy collapses. Why do you think they took such drastic measures to get the economy out of recession if they can profit just as much in a shrinking economy?
