left-reminders:

Socialism is fundamentally about meeting the needs of people directly, rather than using the market middleman to filter products only to those people with sufficient wealth and capital. Under capitalism, homeless people sleep on the street outside of mattress stores, hungry people dig through dumpsters behind grocery stores with an overabundance of goods, and abandoned buildings are left to rot. Capitalism only cares about returns on investments and the ever-expansive accumulation of profits — it’s a system that requires huge chunks of the population living paycheck-to-paycheck, in poverty, so that the parasitic plutocratic owners of property and capital can keep sponging off of the former’s labor. All people deserve healthy food, clean water, comfortable shelter, and an accessible society they have a say in — and that’s only possible through a socio-economic system that prioritizes human needs over corporate profits and that arranges workplaces and communities democratically.