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thoughtportal · 1 year
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too-cool-for-facebook · 11 months
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Is there a word to describe "having been traumatized by Capitalism"? Such as, if I'm being"unproductive" I feel like a failure? Or if I walk out of a store without having bought anything, I feel like security assumes I've stolen something so I'm scared and anxious?
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gayhenrycreel · 8 days
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The Trouble With Inflation
this is in Aotearoa btw.
i found a house for sale on trade me. it includes a history of its sales.
in 2004 it sold for $50,000. currently, it costs $350,000.
in 2004 the minimum wage was $9 per hour, which today is $13.
the current minimum wage is a few cents over $23.
in the last 20 years, the minimum wage has increased by 1.8x~.
the cost of the house?
it increased by SEVEN TIMES.
the house is 5x more inflated than the minimum wage. the government is a few days away from officially increasing the minimum wage to $23, but it is still not enough.
if the minimum wage inflated proportionately, the minimum wage would be $91 per hour.
we need to eat the rich.
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showmethesneer · 10 months
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"We pour money into our industries, not into the Districts themselves," said Sejanus. "The people are on their own."
-The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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darthmatthewtwihard · 9 months
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sleep-safe · 4 months
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capitalism hellscape will genuinely ask you to suppress all human instincts for profit. like. charge your loved ones full price. cancel someone's order if they don't have enough money. throw away the perfectly good food you don't sell, don't give it away. don't be generous, don't be compassionate, don't be kind. it gets in the way of profits.
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schnozsblog · 1 year
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Created this poem or song (Just for Fun):
Max Stirner's philosophy of the self, A unique individual, with no one else
In control, but himself alone No gods, no morals, a life he's shown
The ego, the self, is all that he sees Not society, nor the state, but only "me"
No duties, no obligations to any kind, Only his own desires, and will to stay alive
The concept of ownership, is not of things
But of oneself, and what a man brings
To the table, in his own right
A free spirit, free from any fright
Of conformity, or social norms
The individual, self-defined forms
A life of freedom, and personal power
Not bound by any man-made tower
So let us live, with our own will Not bound by others, or what they instill
But free to be, and free to see
The world as we wish, just you and me.
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popwillow · 7 months
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My mom was 50 hours short this previous school year and therefor will not be granted her human right of health care for her broken ankle, and said ankle means she cannot continue her work there as a para 2. No income, no savings, no insurance.
Not sure what we're going to do but my resolve to blow up banks has never been stronger. Capitalism is a fucking rot. Capitalism is violence. How long will we endure this violence before we fight back?
Everyone could be provided for if we killed these rich parasites.
Just saying
Does anybody have any advice? We live in Oregon
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chairwiththreelegs · 11 months
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that’s it, I’m moving to canada
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thebogboy · 2 years
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thinking about labor day. angry.
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ledbiantastic · 2 years
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It seems like a good time to post this story I wrote...
They always made sure that the man in the lab coat was white and over 40 when he led the Senator into the lab. He gave the Senator the standard introduction about research protocols, about how important the experiment was and the fact that Senators, Billionaires, and other Elites were best to be studied to find out how the best kinds of people think. He sat the Senator down at the little table and pushed a button.
The wall panel at eye level flashed and revealed a screen. The screen showed a bird’s eye view of a bustling city sidewalk. The view appeared to be coming from a camera hovering and flying above. The Senator at the table looked at the screen and watched it with a bored look on his face. The man in the lab coat affixed electrodes to the Senator’s head, explaining that they were going to read brain activity during the experiment.
The man in the lab coat produced a small remote with one button. “If you push this button, you will get a million dollars.” The Senator looked at him with interest. “But the drone filming,” the man in the lab coat gestured to the screen, “will shoot and kill someone on that sidewalk.”
“Would I get arrested?”
“No, this is a military drone is flying over a Middle Eastern city. Most of the people down there are civilians.” The man in the lab coat placed the remote down on the table. “I’ll leave you alone, so you can decide what to do on your own. The reward will come out of a slot in the room—there’s no way for anyone to know which button you pushed unless you tell them. Knock on the door when you’re ready to leave.” The man in the lab coat left the room.
The man in the lab coat heard a soft beep on his monitoring equipment. He grabbed a clipboard and walked into the small room.
The Senator’s body was slumped on the table, completely lifeless. The man in the lab coat wrote something down on his paper. He looked almost like he was smirking. They were eight for eight so far.
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thoughtportal · 4 months
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a choir calling out major tech corporations and brands for their involvement in the Congo genocide.
there are ethical ways to collect the resources we need.
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too-cool-for-facebook · 8 months
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"$7.25 is a liveable wage!"
"Rent should cost 1/3 of your income"
All right then - no rent should exceed $386
Lower the rent, you pussies
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gayhenrycreel · 10 months
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capitalism kills the working class. and once the working class dies, so does everyone else. ai replacing humans actively works in favor of capitalism. if the working class is robots, it can not die. it can not rebel. it can not fight back against corruption. ai is not your friend. it can be a useful tool. a tool that easily gets abused. if you let it replace people, you are helping capitalism kill. ai should not be misused. it is dangerous. do not let capitalism kill.
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prokopetz · 9 months
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"Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic."
Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it's surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.
"One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine."
Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–
"The missing CEO's name is Stockton Rush."
Oh, bullshit. That's not a real person – that's the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That's the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking "Stockton Rush". Unbelievable.
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intersectionalpraxis · 5 months
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images I screenshotted towards the end of this video clip:
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Original Tweet/X Post states: Presenting, "your sustainable future with eV batteries" Brought to you by: Cobalt Mines of Congo. Twitter/X User Response to this video, originally: What scares me is so much "green" technology and products and such are built off human suffering. The entire world is built on this. The entire world is irrevobaly tied to mass exploitation and I desperately hope that changes in my lifetime. #CongoGenocide #CongoIsBleeding
I have attached a video below these Tweet/X images of Congolese people in Cobalt mines. Video Description: Men, in front of a large, dark brown and muddy area of the mine are digging other men out of a hole that have been inside, excavating for Cobalt. These men are not wearing any protective equipment; other than something to cover their eyes, like goggles and lights attached to them. There is a crowd of people surrounding this area and many are cheering them on; a few men are pulled out due to the velocity/force of being pushed out of the mine area they are coming out from. It looks like the mine is opening up and down like the entrance of a beast's mouth. The exit of this part of the mine opens and closes several times during this video. I took a screenshot at the end of the video to showcase how many people have gathered, and there appears to be hundreds.
*UPDATE: The original person on X, formerly known as Twitter, who posted about this story as a re-tweet, is transphobic. I was unaware, and it was recently brought to my attention. For anyone who has read my pinned post or hasn't yet, I do not align with TERFs/transphobes/transmisogynists. I cropped out the original tweet/X post and added their initial commentary on the video just for context, my apologies for the oversight.*
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