meh

It's not a bad guess. My guess is that Erzebet will come along and secretly break the curse and take MC out of danger.

To help people who read this, when it says ""level limit" should actually say "level requirement"

Sure, though Helmet has tasted food before, assuming disgusting food as well and is not a previously emotionless robot.

Well there are contests of all sorts, including creative interpretation of agreements. Depends on what you value,

Well Alvin is anyway

The authors might not specifically thought of it in terms of capitalism. But that repeated sentiment about "choice" is too strong and otherwise out of place IMO to possibly be anything other than intentional.

A big lie the right wing side tells people is that everything must be perfect or it's not worth doing. They don't say those words, but they constantly imply it.

We don't need all those things exactly as I said. More tenant rights, rent increase caps, some public apartments being built, efforts to prevent mergers and monoplies, preventing investment capitalist from buying up so many apartment buildings or rigging rent through aps, etc. are all steps in the right direction that help people.

There are much smaller things we can start with that will still get alot of push-back

Imagine a massive amount of public/nonprofit apartments built. Quality put into construction. And proper maintenance and management for issues. Rent charged is ONLY enough to pay for maintenance plus a bit to pay off construction costs. Much better place to live at a much lower cost and homelessness would be cut down to next to nothing. Could even have programs for reduced or eliminated rent for those who can't afford it along with organizations to help with drugs and mental health.

But this would jeopardize the owner classes grip on power and money. Still worth trying to get.

Massive public transport. Completely electrified with trolleys and trains including between cities. Free at point of use. Massive reduction of parking, stroads, highways, etc. A much better place to live and much cheaper place to live. But profits of various companies would be threatened with this.

National healthcare, people going bankrupt for illness or being ripped off by insurance a thing of the past. Hospitals cheaper to run not having to have whole departments to deal with insurance. Price negotiations to keep costs down. People going to doctors for preventive care saving massive amounts of money, because it doesn't cost them.

Higher learning education as well. In the US, public schools not funded by local taxes for fair schooling.

The unrelenting unreasonable tax called "rent" itself is a capitalist gimmick to extract value from those underneath them. Most landlords do not "earn" the rent they charge. It's just the money they steal from people like a tax for themselves.

So you think the echos of the sentiments of the boss about Dad "choosing" to work to death and Mom "choosing" to have kids so therefore no allowances regarding rent have no meaning or significance?

You're projecting your ideas of "luck" and "human darkness" and "cycles of life and death" onto the story. It was not "luck" that caused Dad to work to death.

"reading compression classes"
LOL

What potential cost do you refer to?

Art is good

A big issue is putting everything into two camps "capitalist" or "socialist/communist" and group things together that don't belong together. This isn't as much a issue under capitalism since capitalism has dominated the world and has had plenty of chance to define what it is. But "socialism/communism" get's stupid shit attached to it like "socialism is when the government does stuff" or when something calls itself communist, it is.

There is alot of history that has been warped by the victors. Also things like Russia just finished escaping feudalism, it barely had it's feet. Lots of problems that can't be blamed on any socio-economic system.

And then that evil thug Stalin took control who didn't give a fuck about communism. Mao was pretty bad as well from what I've heard, implementing what was in effect feudalism.

What it boils down to is, much of the stuff that would make the world a better place for most people to live in, that would make the world more equal and thus more free, capitalists are against.

Free public housing or cheap public housing with basic necessities of life provided for, for everyone if they want it (feel free to go private source if you like) How will we pay for it? We are already paying alot to not do that. This will be cheaper. Plus so much is wasted with capitalism and so much taxes get spent on other things like military and such anyway.

But the real kicker of a capitalist apologist argument is, how will we get people to work (if they aren't being forced to by capitalist) Well we don't need to force people to work. Maybe if people aren't forced to work jobs will have to be more enticing. Maybe some less stuff will get made. But I think there will be plenty of stuff still made.

If their needs were met, Dad wouldn't have worked to death, Mom wouldn't have lost their home possibly contributing to a suicide.

But this isn't just in a comic. This is in real life. Universal basic needs isn't the end goal, it's just a beginning towards a ideal of compassion and liberty by whatever you would call it.

Also things that need to be abolished, like much of the stock-market and investment capital. Private banks. Landlords of course. It's too much to get why here in comments. And that is for a distant future. Let's start with things like universal basic needs, ranked choice voting and other democratic measures.

Correct, they aren't even remotely socialist.

The last italicized part was a mocking echo of essentially what capitalist apologists argue. I know it wasn't a quote of you

Looks like you will have a long road to learning English. Good-luck!

New to English eh? Keep on trying, you'll hopefully get it eventually.

Would you please specify which "parts" and "two" you are referring to and how you think they "aren't quite right"

One issue is, the term "free market" itself is misleading. No such thing, especially under capitalism. Well initially it can exist, in early days capitalism can be alright, if it isn't implemented in a shity way like was done in Russia and if everyone starts out on relatively equal footing, like if there isn't a history of feudalism, slavery, racism etc more quickly ruining all "competition"

but; more importantly even if humans were perfect, capitalism wouldn't work because humans would then choose a much better political-economic system anyway

True. I was doing a reverse of the usual capitalist apologist argument that "capitalism may be flawed, but it is the best we can do" where people pretend human flaws are turned into virtues under capitalism and there is no other better options.

'Are you greedy and selish? Don't worry, under capitalism those things are good for society! Please don't look at history, or any of the past. Just trust us.'

So you also believe it's time we found something much better than capitalism, Bob?