#liontamers — Public Fediverse posts

Capitalists are lion tamers and the working people they exploit are the lion. Capitalists provide us with food, shelter, education, and other goods, and in return we perform for their profit. Lion tamers feed and shelter their lions for the same reason. Without those needs being met we and the lions would rebel and kill them or else die and not profit our masters.

Without education, without training, we and the lions wouldn't be of use to them. Capitalists and lion tamers meet the needs of their victims that are expedient for them to meet. In neither case are the interests of their victims a motive. But we're not lions. We can at least potentially figure out what's going on and act on our understanding.

Lion tamers whip their lions to make them perform and capitalists have the police to keep us in line. By the time they're trained lions only need to see the whip to know what's best for them to do. Without violence or the threat of violence we'd rise up and rebel.

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