this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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And I also literally said "directly benefiting". Nice selective quoting you did there. "In general people are in favor of the things that directly benefit them"
So if people are directly benefiting from capitalism, these people are in favor of it. Not really a super hard concept to grasp, yet you keep struggling with that simple sentence.
"And yet you directly benefit (by getting a paycheck)"
We did the meme
Here's that shovel you requested, you want me to help you dig?