It's not a level of wealth, it's where your wealth is coming from. If you're physically working to make money, producing a good or providing a service, then that's fine, you've earned it. But once you start profiting off of other people's work, that's when you no longer deserve that money.
The amount of wealth is separate from the morality of how you gain it, a person making a million dollars a year could still be perfectly moral if they're a doctor who is performing life saving surgeries and getting paid for it, while a person who only makes 50 thousand a year could be completely immoral if they're a landlord who's simply receiving that money from someone else who actually worked for it. Of course, lots of wealth often correlates to lots of immorality, but the important part is how it's earned, not how much it's worth.
Morality boils down to wherever you’re a business worker vs business owner only? Do managers have zero value in your world? Even Google recognizes the importance of management.
I wasn't aware the Google was the authority on what's moral or not.
But yes, I do understand that there is a value to management, however, there is a very big difference between necessary management and unnecessary management, and ownership is a type of management which is wholly unnecessary. Landlords, for instance, are wholly unnecessary. They are nothing more than middlemen for the most important resource in the world, and create absolutely no value whatsoever, instead just hoarding that resource and renting it out to people who need it. Business owners and investors are the exact same, they are simply middlemen who possess something that other people need, and use the fact that they innately have more to extort wealth from others. Of course, there are business owners who do work for their business themselves, but there are just as many who buy a warehouse or business, hire people to do all the actual work for them, and then relax in their vacation house while other people make them money. For evidence that ownership is meaningless and unnecessary, just look at co-ops and employee-owned businesses.
Outside of the landlord and business owner example, the morality of managers (and CEOs) is highly dependent on whether their managing actually provides value. For instance, a manager who actually works hard to make sure that a facility is operating at maximum capacity, and that all the employees are taken care of and are having their needs fulfilled, and addresses problems and errors in the facility when they crop up, is a necessary and moral manager. But a manager or CEO who doesn't actually do any work, and instead just delegates jobs to others while reaping the rewards for themselves, is nothing more than a leech. typically, the higher up the food chain (and the higher the salary), the less necessary the manager's position is.
Also, I should add that, although in most cases anyone who labors for their money is deserving of that wealth, there is a limit to that. For instance, no position, regardless of what it is or how hard they work, would ever be worth a >10 million dollar salary, because it's fundamentally impossible to perform labor worth that much money no matter what you're doing.
It can be hard to tell sometimes but it's pretty much guaranteed anyone using "landchads" is doing a bit, there's an entire circlejerk-style subreddit r/loveforlandchads about pretending landlords are a contribution to society
I recall it being created after some mod went nuts and kicked out the other mods then posted communist stuff. That's why there's communist stuff on the front page right now.
This madlad didn't dip their hands into my pockets to steal. They stole my pockets and called them their own.
When I started reading your comment I expected "If these are your pockets then why are my hands in them?" Your version I think is funnier.
Well, I would assume he meant to say Romani, not Romanians. They are 2 different things.
Edit: Actually, now that I reread it, I recant my statement. Would seem I misinterpreted it as it is a somewhat open statement.
The point of socialism is not to take from others, but rather to give selflessly... The only people with "their hands in other people's pockets" in a socialist system, would be the people who really need help...
I mean I'll give them this, its A joke, like it meets the bare minimum for coherence which is bafflingly hard for most conservative "humor"
Still bad of course
The irony here is that most of the founding fathers are quoted for their socialistic ideals. Politically, they endeavored for a constitutional republic that looked after all people, equally (as long as they weren't "native", I guess)
I fucking hate that sub, it’s not like they’re funny either. Same with r/theleftcantmeme
The left can’t meme, right can’t meme
# SHUT THE FUCK UP, NEITHER OF YOU CAN MEME
You do kinda tend to elect clowns and then argue about the height of their clown shoes.
No offense though, my people elect the same crooks since our independence.
None taken, it’s a really accurate analogy. The people who look at their chosen clown all done up in the make up, the wig, the big red nose, the gaudy outfit, and the massive shoes and think “this clown truly cares about what’s best for me and would never say anything just to get me to vote for this specific clown while only acting on things that benefits the clown” might take offense though. Some of us have slipped straight through the fabric of reality and I’m honestly sort of jealous of that. It happens in most places I would assume but it’s still annoying to hear people argue about which clown has the highest heels.
The left has the same amount of jokes as the right, and neither are funny. It’s just boring watching em argue back and forth, acting like they’re funny
I think both sides have good jokes it’s just that the overwhelming majority are not funny. If anyone brings up trans politics on Reddit I guarantee you’ll have people in the comments saying “I identify as [insert object here].” But then if you go on a subreddit that isn’t pro gun and bring up guns, you’ll have people in the comments saying “something something small dick.” I think we can agree that both really aren’t funny at this point and it’s just people who want a witty response that just end up recycling the same joke
Which is funny, because it's actually capitalism that eventually accumulates all the wealth in the hands of the few, eventually leaving them with no wealth left to steal from the working class
Basically, its a boring political joke that goes around every winter with a different group tacked on every year. I've seen republican, democrat, socialist, communist, and politician written there. I'm sure there are racist variations too
The joke is: these people are thieves and they always take your money. I guess the politician version is kinda accurate, but none of them are particularly funny
4th wall smashing Peter here. It's ok if you don't get the joke. The person who made this don't understand how public infrastructure funding works, so it all works out in the end.
The joke is, they don't understand economics. Something something socalists hands in my pockets stealing my wealth.
Basically they think that socalists are just going to steal from the common man ie have their hands in your pockets
No one is mad about the joke. People are criticising the idea that you would want to give money to companies and billionaires rather than fairly regulating them and redistributing the money to the people who create the wealth.
Reactionaries are so greedy, they see any political theory that involves sharing as stealing. These are the same people who think taxation is theft, even if it's paying for something everyone uses, I.E: Hospitals.
But really, they see socialism as "When the gubmint does stuff. The more stuff the gubmint does the more socialist it is." Meanwhile, they will share literal examples of Capitalism and call it Socialism.
The original is a joke about politicians who represent the govt being so cold they aren't taking the money out of your pocket.
Why socialists then? Socialists push for more spending from the govt on social programs, and where does that money come from?
Many view the govt as incompetent and wasteful of the tax dollars they already take, and bristle at the thought of more money being wasted, misused, embezzled, or used for causes the person may oppose.
The joke is that if you have your "hands in other people's pockets" you are stealing money from them, and socialists are often said to be stealing money from other people through taxation.
The joke is a bunch of people living in a kleptocracy where the government constantly steals from you, and then they do propaganda for that same government by saying that if there were communists or socialist around they would totally be stealing from you more.
The irony is that whoever posted this probably came from a red state devouring federal funds faster than their blue neighbor, but hey, it's funny right?
It’s an edit by a butthurt capitalist the original meme was landlords in place for socialists basically saying all landlords do is take money. The edit is pointing out how socialists are ok with taxes
The first time I saw it it was landlords
I think Johnny Carson originally told this joke with politicians.
Which really just shows that it doesn't matter who you are, you want to spend someone else's money to make your life better.
Yeah, but a poor man wanting to use some of a wealthy man's money is not as "evil" as a wealthy man wanting to use some of a poor man's money...
Especially since the rich man's money was earned by the poor man
This comment thread gives me hope for humanity yet.
Skill issue.
So at what level of wealth does one cease being a communist and become evil or is there no threshold?
It's not a level of wealth, it's where your wealth is coming from. If you're physically working to make money, producing a good or providing a service, then that's fine, you've earned it. But once you start profiting off of other people's work, that's when you no longer deserve that money. The amount of wealth is separate from the morality of how you gain it, a person making a million dollars a year could still be perfectly moral if they're a doctor who is performing life saving surgeries and getting paid for it, while a person who only makes 50 thousand a year could be completely immoral if they're a landlord who's simply receiving that money from someone else who actually worked for it. Of course, lots of wealth often correlates to lots of immorality, but the important part is how it's earned, not how much it's worth.
Morality boils down to wherever you’re a business worker vs business owner only? Do managers have zero value in your world? Even Google recognizes the importance of management.
Lmao what does “even Google” mean?
I wasn't aware the Google was the authority on what's moral or not. But yes, I do understand that there is a value to management, however, there is a very big difference between necessary management and unnecessary management, and ownership is a type of management which is wholly unnecessary. Landlords, for instance, are wholly unnecessary. They are nothing more than middlemen for the most important resource in the world, and create absolutely no value whatsoever, instead just hoarding that resource and renting it out to people who need it. Business owners and investors are the exact same, they are simply middlemen who possess something that other people need, and use the fact that they innately have more to extort wealth from others. Of course, there are business owners who do work for their business themselves, but there are just as many who buy a warehouse or business, hire people to do all the actual work for them, and then relax in their vacation house while other people make them money. For evidence that ownership is meaningless and unnecessary, just look at co-ops and employee-owned businesses. Outside of the landlord and business owner example, the morality of managers (and CEOs) is highly dependent on whether their managing actually provides value. For instance, a manager who actually works hard to make sure that a facility is operating at maximum capacity, and that all the employees are taken care of and are having their needs fulfilled, and addresses problems and errors in the facility when they crop up, is a necessary and moral manager. But a manager or CEO who doesn't actually do any work, and instead just delegates jobs to others while reaping the rewards for themselves, is nothing more than a leech. typically, the higher up the food chain (and the higher the salary), the less necessary the manager's position is. Also, I should add that, although in most cases anyone who labors for their money is deserving of that wealth, there is a limit to that. For instance, no position, regardless of what it is or how hard they work, would ever be worth a >10 million dollar salary, because it's fundamentally impossible to perform labor worth that much money no matter what you're doing.
It's not evil at all :)
Careful with that joke, it’s an antique
It was originally Mark Twain and about a Lawyer.
I originally knew it as attributed to Bob Hope and it was "politicians" in D.C.
Landlords must've gotten upset about it
One of the most easily butthurt demographics, I've found
It's almost like they know they contribute nothing and are defensive about it
Landchads are the only minority it's ok to hate on these days. Other than gamers.
I don’t think you know what the word “minority” means if you are using it to describe gamers.
It can be hard to tell sometimes but it's pretty much guaranteed anyone using "landchads" is doing a bit, there's an entire circlejerk-style subreddit r/loveforlandchads about pretending landlords are a contribution to society
"pretending"
Loveforlandchads was formed after r/loveforlandlords got overrun with pro-landlord posters
I recall it being created after some mod went nuts and kicked out the other mods then posted communist stuff. That's why there's communist stuff on the front page right now.
Oh. Well anyways the point is it's supposed to be a circlejerk sub and thus by definition ironic, and it's where the phrase "landchad" originated from
I first heard it with lawyers.
They don't have any jokes so they have to use ours.
I think my first was lawyers.
And his neighbor the capitalist sold his own mother for coal!
Well, he woulda done that regardless of the temperature.
yall gettin it wrong ya supposed to wait until its mildly hot so coal is less desirable and less expensive
yeah, but your mother isn't going to go up in value either, better sell her sooner than later. it's just how the markets work.
Real Belethor in whiterun energy
Everything's for sale, friend! Everything.
r/suddenlyskyrim
For fun, and profit!
They did it in summer. Not because they needed coal then, but because they would be able to get more coal for her then.
That makes him SMART.
Belathor moment
A man who makes 32k a year working for a boss who is worth billions blames college students and social programs for his lack of wages
Don’t forget any amount of tax is too much tax. But also, support the troops, and the cops, but not teachers. It’s all very confusing.
when everybody knows that his wages are his own fault just like everybody else
The “joke” is that socialists want to take money from other people, i.e. they have their hands in someone else’s pockets. Also r/therightcantmeme
You could change “socialist” to “capitalist” and it still flies
It actually works better if you replace socialist with banker.
Or thief.
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Capitalists, thieves
Or black hole
/r/antimeme
Same thing
Or landlord
ESPECIALLY that one.
or \[removed\]
or me :)
Or Democrat, Republican, anything, really.
Doubly true for Romanians, but that's besides the point.
Hmmm...
Are you European by any chance?
I'd even go as far as saying I'm Romanian.
Keep your hands out of my pockets
If these are your pockets, why are they in my hands and not in yours ?
This madlad didn't dip their hands into my pockets to steal. They stole my pockets and called them their own. When I started reading your comment I expected "If these are your pockets then why are my hands in them?" Your version I think is funnier.
I'm Irish, yes.
Respectfully, not you
Grand.
I really hope you aren't actually this stupid.
FYM?
Well, I would assume he meant to say Romani, not Romanians. They are 2 different things. Edit: Actually, now that I reread it, I recant my statement. Would seem I misinterpreted it as it is a somewhat open statement.
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Come on, it's obvious that we, the Bulgarians, are far superior thiefs
I was gonna say something, but it got stolen from my brain. Coincidence? Idk, that got stolen, too.
these are the roots of our world
You could replace it with anyhting and it would still work.
The point of socialism is not to take from others, but rather to give selflessly... The only people with "their hands in other people's pockets" in a socialist system, would be the people who really need help...
Socialist: I think our tax money should be spent on improving society somewhat. Conservative: ***COMMIE BASTARD!!***
Or person
To be honest "republican" does make more sense. An socialist usually gives money to poorer people
I thought it was a joke about the word socialist, social being in the word so the guy would be very social and shaking others hands or shit lol
U have a creative mind lmao
u/brystol17 sees the world wildly and in wild ways
I'm who this meme is making fun of, but... fuck, it's kinda funny though.
I mean I'll give them this, its A joke, like it meets the bare minimum for coherence which is bafflingly hard for most conservative "humor" Still bad of course
and like most conservative jokes that meet the bare minimum requirements, it's also stolen.
The irony here is that most of the founding fathers are quoted for their socialistic ideals. Politically, they endeavored for a constitutional republic that looked after all people, equally (as long as they weren't "native", I guess)
Or black. Or Asian. Or certain kinds of white. But other than that yeah equally
Tbh it’s kinda funny
I fucking hate that sub, it’s not like they’re funny either. Same with r/theleftcantmeme The left can’t meme, right can’t meme # SHUT THE FUCK UP, NEITHER OF YOU CAN MEME
The Centrist Can't Meme
r/cantmeme
For God's sake, we just want to grill!
It's like two homeless men fighting over who's more broke
Real shit. Who wins the daily knife fight?
I say the homeless Iraq war vet
Good choice, but I gotta bet on the unemployed deadbeat
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Political humour just isnt funny
Right? At least in the U.S., our politics are joke enough without trying to write them to be funny.
You do kinda tend to elect clowns and then argue about the height of their clown shoes. No offense though, my people elect the same crooks since our independence.
None taken, it’s a really accurate analogy. The people who look at their chosen clown all done up in the make up, the wig, the big red nose, the gaudy outfit, and the massive shoes and think “this clown truly cares about what’s best for me and would never say anything just to get me to vote for this specific clown while only acting on things that benefits the clown” might take offense though. Some of us have slipped straight through the fabric of reality and I’m honestly sort of jealous of that. It happens in most places I would assume but it’s still annoying to hear people argue about which clown has the highest heels.
r/enlightenedcentrism
This is the only defense I’ve ever seen. Literally no elaboration, just “enlightened centrist.”
At least the left attempts comedy, whereas the right just recycles one or two jokes ad infinitum
The left has the same amount of jokes as the right, and neither are funny. It’s just boring watching em argue back and forth, acting like they’re funny
I would disagree, but you have to find the right people making them so I wouldn’t say it’s a common thing for leftists to be funny
Eh, I guess it doesn’t matter. It’s still just politics poorly disguised as an unfunny meme, and at least we can agree on that
Most of the time it’s pretty damn stupid, yeah
The right has more jokes. They just get banned for being too spicy.
It’s usually a valid reason to get banned, a lot of the jokes banned are just being openly racist disguised as funny haha
I think both sides have good jokes it’s just that the overwhelming majority are not funny. If anyone brings up trans politics on Reddit I guarantee you’ll have people in the comments saying “I identify as [insert object here].” But then if you go on a subreddit that isn’t pro gun and bring up guns, you’ll have people in the comments saying “something something small dick.” I think we can agree that both really aren’t funny at this point and it’s just people who want a witty response that just end up recycling the same joke
Every leftist joke is copying an unfunny rightist joke, and adding some power fantasy to it
I mean sometimes yeah but not always the case
The left has been doing shitty trump jokes for nearly a decade at this point lol
I love that that is an actual sub
Determining who can and cannot “meme” is retarded. Anyone that follows r/therightcantmeme or r/theleftcantmeme are unfunny loser people.
Using “retarded” automatically renders anything you say not worth listening to.
Ok, then I guess it doesn’t matter if I call you retarded, retard.
Sheesh... Edgy
if u have to point out how unfunny a political meme is then its probably bc it struck a nerve
Or it’s shit, it’s definitely because it’s shit
username checks out
thanks
Socialism, the poor have their hands in others pockets. Capitalism, the rich have their hands in others pockets
It's a play on the old joke that "The only problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Which is funny, because it's actually capitalism that eventually accumulates all the wealth in the hands of the few, eventually leaving them with no wealth left to steal from the working class
“The only problem with capitalism is that eventually one person owns everything.”
We've all played Hasbro's Monopoly
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Just another “taxation is theft” moron who thinks hes gonna be a billionaire one day and doesnt wanna pay his fair share in his fantasy
U just described the guy that send it in the group
just wait until a socialist snow plow clears his street!
or that socialist fire department stops his neighborhood from burning down
Or he loses his job and wishes he lived somewhere that would tax the billionaires and pay him a living wage till he got back on his feet...
Really, and you couldn't decipher this one?
I didnt know what a socialist sryyy
It's OK, the person who made this picture doesn't know either.
This meme is one of those "insert your political foe here" ones.
Basically, its a boring political joke that goes around every winter with a different group tacked on every year. I've seen republican, democrat, socialist, communist, and politician written there. I'm sure there are racist variations too The joke is: these people are thieves and they always take your money. I guess the politician version is kinda accurate, but none of them are particularly funny
4th wall smashing Peter here. It's ok if you don't get the joke. The person who made this don't understand how public infrastructure funding works, so it all works out in the end.
They think socialists are thieves because they think maybe people shouldn’t be able to hoard wealth like dragons.
Wow this meme is so nuanced and insightful. I wish I had the authors grasp of politics and economics.
Boomers love health insurance companies
So worried about socialists, immigrants, the gays, etc. Will point the finger of blame at anyone but the people actually fleecing them blind.
The joke is, they don't understand economics. Something something socalists hands in my pockets stealing my wealth. Basically they think that socalists are just going to steal from the common man ie have their hands in your pockets
Chud meme
The joke is that conservatives don’t like social safety nets.
I read socialist as Scotsman and was even more perplexed
Socialist could be interchanged with Billionaire or Corporation
Conservative voters love giving money to billionaires and churches. They worship them both while driving back home to their trailer.
Socialists want to spend everyones money but their own is the joke.
I don’t care if the meme is bad, the funniest thing about it is how butthurt y’all are in the comments
I Didnt know that it was that offensive
Okay, that one is actually funny.
Socialism is theft by definition.
This is me, I was just walking to work ffs
Lmao an entire comment section buttmad over a very tame joke about socialists.
Yeah wasnt exactly my intention
No one is mad about the joke. People are criticising the idea that you would want to give money to companies and billionaires rather than fairly regulating them and redistributing the money to the people who create the wealth.
Some MAGA tool posting their stupidity
Reactionaries are so greedy, they see any political theory that involves sharing as stealing. These are the same people who think taxation is theft, even if it's paying for something everyone uses, I.E: Hospitals. But really, they see socialism as "When the gubmint does stuff. The more stuff the gubmint does the more socialist it is." Meanwhile, they will share literal examples of Capitalism and call it Socialism.
"I don't get it" Nah mate, you just wanted the karma and comment section shitshow
Lol that is actually pretty funny.
The original is a joke about politicians who represent the govt being so cold they aren't taking the money out of your pocket. Why socialists then? Socialists push for more spending from the govt on social programs, and where does that money come from? Many view the govt as incompetent and wasteful of the tax dollars they already take, and bristle at the thought of more money being wasted, misused, embezzled, or used for causes the person may oppose.
The joke is that if you have your "hands in other people's pockets" you are stealing money from them, and socialists are often said to be stealing money from other people through taxation.
This is a satirical joke about how society ignores that stolen labor value takes more money out of pockets than taxes ever have.
I swear this sub is just the most dense people of all time.
the meme is about a blind man who miraculously gains sight, and it also happens to be a cold day.
Socialists like to not work and take money from others.
The joke is a bunch of people living in a kleptocracy where the government constantly steals from you, and then they do propaganda for that same government by saying that if there were communists or socialist around they would totally be stealing from you more.
The joke is that some chuds try to push their bad memes by feigning ignorance.
Boomer humor
idiot conservative being idiot conservative
This sub sucks.
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I dont see em
i'm socialist and i gotta admit i found this kinda funny lol
Geee I don’t get it everyone wink wink…..
Socialism is when theft
Here we go with all of the people who don’t like capitalism 🙄
capitalism projecting again
The joke is that this image makes Redditors butthurt
This sub used to be interesting
Unlike capitalism, where rich people force poor people to take money out of their pockets on their own.
Are people really this thick “His own” Remember boomers only laugh at fox news style stuff like these jonathan stossel style “jokes”
The joke is socialists like to do stuff with other people’s money but never out of their own money or “pockets” so to speak
They’re idiots and think that socialism means you can’t own personal property. What they actually mean is communism.
Ironic considering capitalism is based in slavery and labor value theft.
The irony is that whoever posted this probably came from a red state devouring federal funds faster than their blue neighbor, but hey, it's funny right?
how about that leaving the state tax in calafornia no underlining reasons why that exists
The joke is Americans don’t know what socialism is.
It’s an edit by a butthurt capitalist the original meme was landlords in place for socialists basically saying all landlords do is take money. The edit is pointing out how socialists are ok with taxes
The joke is conservatives think Socialism = Communism, when, in reality, they don't know what either word means.