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Food is literally free (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/onehundredninetysix/p/449273/food-is-literally-rule

Food is literally rule

Edit: Could you please chill it with the taking everything so bloody seriously? It's low-hanging fruit leftist agitprop from c/196. It doesn't aim to be coherent with the very letter of Marx or whatever leftist group/cult-leader you prefer.

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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No, they aren't metaphysical eldtritch gods infecting humans. Corruption existed prior, yes, in systems also designed to protect rule by a small class of people, like feudalism.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Power is like a cursed trinket from fantasy literature/games, where upon picking it up it slowly increases "corruption".

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    People really do think that way, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Try thinking like this: Having more power means that your decisions, preferences, biases and limitations have more weight. With more weight, you will bulldoze whatever other people want. With all the weight, whatever you say goes. The corruption is a part of the system overruling the rest through no malicious intent.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    That's not corruption, though, that's just how administration works. There can absolutely be good reasons for people to have more of a say when it comes to decision making, and these people can be selected democratically or meritocratically.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Good luck convincing others of this take. People really truly believe in some sort of supernatural 'can never possibly resist' corruptive force when it comes to power. As if the idea of a human that has power and isn't corrupted is so much more impossible than all the other fantasy bullshit we've dreamed up. Hell they even had to make Superman an alien just to get people to accept the idea of a good powerful person.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Ultimately, the answer lies in taking a materialist approach to analysis, rather than an idealist stance. Cutting through the supernatural and relying on the material as our frame of reference helps us demystify subjects like "power corrupting."

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