That’s called a vow of poverty. Nobody but the Catholics ever did it.
And despite the name, it’s not “poverty” as in poor. It’s the older meaning of poverty, having enough to live and giving away the rest. Because spiritual people don’t (or shouldn’t) care about material things. They chain you to the earth, etc.
Asking socialists to take vows of poverty is dumb.
Plenty of socialists in the third world have done similar. Including Thomas Sankara. Reduced his salary to a couple hundred US dollars a month and gave away all government excesses and forbid them. It’s about showing solidarity with the working class.
I’m pretty sure there is a middle ground between a “vow of poverty” and earning millions of US dollars a year for talking shit into a microphone for weirdos on the internet.
I think the 1.2m number is the total for the pod, and there’s two other people working there. Assuming that they split it three ways that’s obviously still a lot of money for each of them, but we also have no idea what they’re doing with it. For all we know they could be giving most of it away.
I was mainly responding to the idea that “a vow of poverty” is something only Catholics do and and has no place in socialism. Which is just factually untrue. Even the previous president of Uruguay let refugees live in the official government accommodation and drove a VW Beetle. Socialist movements should definitely focus on curbing party and/or government excesses, and avoid champagne socialist behaviour. Especially in the third world/Global South. It is a very poor look for a “socialist party” to show up to parliament with fancy watches and Gucci bags, while they dress to look like workers. There has to be some kind of middle ground somewhere.
I don’t know what the trueanon podcast does with their money, I don’t really care, but there is a point to practicing what you preach.
It costs a shocking and frightening amount of money to have a secure retirement in the US. If you’re planning to live to 80 with any kind of financial stability you need high, stable income for decades and careful saving. 400k - expenses is real good, but they’ve only been doing it for a couple of years and it probably won’t last. Once you hit 65, if you’re not disabled before that, you’ve got to cover all your expenses for 15 years with savings while medical, housing, and food costs continue to go up with no end in sight.
Most people will never be able to retire, but even people who do have a chance need to put away a great deal of money to have a chance of staying solvent until they die.
I don’t think most people even think about retirement these days, it’s an idea from an older world, but if you’re going to try for it it’s very costly.
I don’t even believe the story that they weren’t in the black. Personally, I believe that they weren’t in the black as much as compared to other Sapporo plants, and there was probably not as muh growth potential for the brand that wouldn’t directly compete with their other brands, being only a San Fran brand. That alongside with bad publicity from the unionization campaign is why they cut it.
communism is when no money
Real poverty cult hours
i remember reading that communist/socialist politicians in the 3rd world did vows to cut their wage to only a standard wage or the normal wage of for example a teacher, in solidary wth the workers and donating the rest to union funds, labour struggles or to their party.
im pretty sure the trots in argentina do it to name a few
of course belden is not a congressman, but im mostly mentioning it because i think the dude in the screenshot maybe got the idea from this
