higurashihougi Sun Nov 03, 2024 12:17 am
kvs wrote:It is nice to have ideals about democracy and freedom, but in the real world one has to account for imperial meddling.
Democracy is a form of state, by a form of state it means an organized violence to suppress the masses for the benefit of the ruling class. In other word, democracy is only applied to the rulers and not to the masses. Athenian slave-owner democracy is the most classic example of this. Capitalist democracy is more subtle in that aspect, but it is clear that it is also the democracy of the billionaires, not of the proles.
In Western liberal-bourgeioise democracy there is the separation between politics and economy, in which your freedom of speech and your voting rights cannot interfere into wealth-based power dynamics, including labour-employer relationship, the so-called "freedom of business" (i.e. the freedom of manipulate the market), and market economy, which inherently favour the people with money over the people with empty pocket. Adam Smith in his magnum opus pointed out how wealthy employers can leverage their wealth and connection with government magistrate to achieve unequal contract against artisans - although it is self-evidence and does not need to be a veteran economist to understand.
As a result, you are free to say anything about childlessness or non-marriage or rainbow or hippie rebellious lifestyle, but you are not allowed to say bad things about your employer even if he really is a scumbag.
Powerful companies and corporations have strict censorship over what their employees can and cannot say... if they detect you express your frustration on Internet then being fired is the least you can expect... you can be blacklisted by all the employers in the sector and even by all other capitalists as a mean of revenge in a mafia way...