Like, if you work for the EPA or as some lab scientist at the FDA, are you still a prole considering you are being paid with the ill gotten gains of the American empire.

Honestly, I don’t see why US government workers shouldn’t be deemed proles, because that degree of moral abstraction could be performed on just about everyone in the US.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Your average postperson working for USPS has far less blood on their hands than many, if not most workers of private businesses. You're talking about an underfunded federal agency that is essential in a functioning society and is 100% guaranteed to exist under a socialist government. Can you say the same about anyone who works in marketing or advertising?

    Who has more blood on their hands, the sanitation workers of your municipality or a bunch of gacha game developers trying to get people addicted to waifu jpgs?

    Who has more blood on their hands, landscapers working in your local department of parks and recreation to maintain parks or clerical workers working in an HR department that's tasked to defend executives and throw workers under the bus?

    Who has more blood on their hands, people in charge of distributing safe and drinkable water or people in charge of making Dorito chips as addictive as possible?

    Yes, not all government jobs are the same. Obviously, the pigs, the courts, the carceral system in general, the military, and every single alphabet soup organization have much blood on their hands.

    This is just another case of people being intellectually lazy. No, the FBI is not the same as the Department of Education.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      if your job would exist under communism you're probably fine to doing it now as long as you're doing right by people. EMTs are better than pigs but the system is still kinda fucked and it's possible to be a fash EMT who involuntarily commits people or something.