Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
by westmeal on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:38AM
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Efficiency for extracting money from poor people to mega corporations? Seems to me there isn't really a lot of competition left since theres a handful of main players that just buy out smaller competitors.
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The poor are richer than ever under the system. They have clean running water and not just light but televisions.
> They have clean running water
They actually don't. Water is contaminated at various levels in many places.
Nothing to do with rich or poor - they share the same water.
The rich tend to avoid living in poor communities.
Water systems generelly cover the whole city, often more than one city in a MSA, not just a community. There are community water systems but most are bigger.
Flint's water has been fixed for more than five years now.
But minimal determination over their own lives. Thank God for cheap LCDs, though.
A lot more than ever before. There are no slaves. they have many options - not alwasy good options but there are options.
Having to point out that the middle and lower class aren’t slaves isn’t the win you think it is.
Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
by RobotToaster on Sunday June 29, 2025 @09:03AM
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Most of them don't even own homes.
there are rich who don't own their own homes either. Often renting is the choice a mythical rational ecconomic actor would choose.
Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
by olddustytrail on Sunday June 29, 2025 @11:39AM
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They have clean running water because of the ordinary people who work to provide it and maintain the pipes.
They have light and television because of the ordinary working people who work at and maintain electricity plants and design, sell, assemble electrical products.
These things exist despite the billionaire leeches not because of them.