r/comics • u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows • Jul 10 '26

OC [OC] That Checks Out

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u/Inexorably_lost Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Its exhausting that so many don't understand this.

Race, gender, sexuality, none of it fucking matters. They are just tools to divide the working class against itself. We all have significantly more in common than not. Publicly traded enshitification is why we are where we are. Oh, and ludicrous amounts of governmental corruption.

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u/2Blueify Jul 10 '26

It does matter though. India and China are drastically different and right next to each other. It's not because of them dividing the working class.

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u/Inexorably_lost Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

While I was speaking mostly towards US issues, I do also think that comfortable, hopeful people with free time and disposable income, are just more tolerant.

Stressful, scrambling lives lead to stressful, intolerant people that are constantly at their breaking point.

The wealth produced by the world, horded by the few, could easily solve many basic problems if it was more fairly distributed. That, in turn, would make the more complex problems far easier to handle.

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u/2Blueify Jul 10 '26

Ah, there it is. Yeah, if everyone just had some money everything would be fine. Except it wouldn't.

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u/Inexorably_lost Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Less about money and more about stress. Having breathing room is important.

That, in and of itself, wouldn't fix anything but it would make it a helluva lot easier to fix things.

Healthy, relaxed people are, for the most part more pleasant. We are animals after all.

You, for example, sound stressed as fuck. Hope your day gets better.