Dismantling the myths surrounding social mobility, exposing the inconvenient truths hidden beneath. Explaining Nepo Babies, The Great Gatsby Curve, The Paradox of Inequality and what purpose rags-to-riches stories serve in today's society.
#Capitalism #Consumerism #Fascism #Inequality #Woke #Socialism
https://youtu.be/73YEFD89IuM
#capitalism
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@georgetakei https://youtu.be/i8F5FgernVY?si=xmfLSNr0ISbA8Xrd
All #capitalism is bad. All #liberals and #liberalismm are fascists. The American empire is pure evil. #communists #comumerism #socialism is good. All #imperialism #nationalism is bad. #BernieSanders #aoc #AOC2028 #berlin are still hard right liberals. There to preserve the #dictatorshipoftherich #bourgeoisie #oligarchy to keep us from #revolution we need our own #lenin #stalin #mao #socialism #socialistsunday #antifascism #antimperism reform impossible
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The summer the fires reached the city limits. The winter when the power grids failed. The monsoon that drowned the subways. The sky turns orange, and we take photos of it. We caption it: Eerie but beautiful. We order groceries, the courier arriving in the haze, their mask the only barrier between lungs and poison. We rate the delivery five stars.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/middle-climate-apocalypse-we-really-care-9890542/
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"It’s worth noting that, while governments have an obsession with efficiency, it’s still limited solely to cost-cutting. There seems to be little interest in, for instance, making access to #welfare payments more efficient, or #healthcare, or #childcare, as any parent who has battled on their laptop deep into the night trying to conquer the tax-free childcare scheme knows. No, efficiency is only important when attempting to immediately maximise profit."
03:20—Good Night #Fediverse! 
Sweet dreams! Keep being awesome and taking down the system one step at a time.
Yet another example of why you should ditch Windows entirely and switch to Mint, Debian, or Fedora.
People can glorify Windows all they want, but to me, Microsoft is the epitome of digital colonialism, exploiting and siphoning creativity purely for corporate greed.
Windows Insider Blog · Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 (Dev Channel)Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 (KB5054687) to the Dev Channel.
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"Jetzt, da die Vereinigten Staaten die Einwanderung stark einschränken, wird es zunehmend schwierig Arbeiter für gering bezahlte Jobs zu finden. Der Bundesstaat Florida erwägt nun die Aufhebung einiger Kinderarbeitsgesetze, damit künftig Minderjährige diese Arbeit verrichten.
Die Legislative des Bundesstaates Florida hat über einen Gesetzentwurf beraten, der eine Lockerung der Vorschriften für Kinderarbeit vorsieht und es Minderjährigen ab 14 Jahren erlauben würde, an Schultagen über Nacht zu arbeiten....."
euronews · Florida erwägt Lockerung der Gesetze zur KinderarbeitJetzt, da die Vereinigten Staaten die Einwanderung stark einschränken, wird es zunehmend schwierig Arbeiter für gering bezahlte Jobs zu finden. Der Bundesstaat Florida erwägt nun die Aufhebung einiger Kinderarbeitsgesetze, damit künftig Minderjährige diese Arbeit verrichten.
Götterdämmerung What delicious irony. The #socialist armed with grievances will unleash a torrent of indictments: exploitation, wealth hoarding, environmental destruction & the transformation of human lives into mere profit margins. They'll paint #capitalism as a ruthless machine fueled by greed where the rich gorge themselves while the poor scramble for crumbs.
One of my other goals for 2025 was to cut back on my usage of FreeTube.
I love that it blocks ads and trackers, and it has SponsorBlock integration, but I'm still watching way to much stuff from a capitalist platform and its creators.
Starting this weekend, I'm gonna unsubscribe from most creators on FreeTube and shift towards PeerTube full time.
I want my feed to be more focused on topics like Anarchism, Syndicalism, Psychedelics, Buddhism, Linux, and LGBTQIA. To do this, I'm going to unfollow some people so my feed aligns better with my interests and values.
No hard feelings to anyone, except for fascist scums, I'll block them right away.
It's like #FollowFriday, so if you want to support me, boost this post!
Excuse me? "Crypto industry"?
What hard labour to crypto bros do? I was under the impression the entire idea is a scam to exploit wealth and create vast inequality from nothing. The perfect capitalist activity.
Proposition: it is "civilisation" which has killed, and is killing, everything by making everything less diverse.
THE PRIMITIVE AND THE CIVILISED: WHICH HAS BETTER CONSEQUENCES?
It is consequently hard to over-emphasise how large and consequential the change from hunter-gathering to becoming agriculturalists was and still is. Our world could simply not exist in every single one of its aspects unless this had happened. But it was not a turn for the better but very much for the worse. It was a completely different way of life. Hunter-gatherers could not, could never, have done what agricultural humanity went on to do in and through its “civilising”. There is a direct line from domesticating animals, farming fields and building settlements to nuclear power stations irradiating their surroundings, sewage in rivers and seas, and microplastics in everything. Hunter-gatherers, who refused
the drudgery of work for a life many anthropologists agree was largely leisure, could never have done any of that. They would never have needed or wanted to. Even today anthropologists observe of the few still remaining hunter-gatherer tribes that “No group on earth has more leisure time than hunters and gatherers, who spend it primarily on games, conversation and relaxing.” This is because their lives are, by our standards, terribly simple and with an almost complete lack of control over the environment. Their lives are 180 degrees from our own. This hunting and gathering lifestyle lasted among humans for tens of thousands of years, far longer than a recognisably agricultural age has so far existed, but without any of the latter’s obviously attendant problems (such as
impending mass extinction, implicit coercion of the masses to even make it work and a vast division between rich and poor). These problems could also never have occurred in a hunter-gathering world but are consequent upon an agricultural, domesticated one.
(taken from "Black Seeds")
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
"Regardless, the man on record with likely the strongest and bluntest disavowal of using AI tools for art, is now the same man whose notoriously painstakingly handcrafted art is being giddily automated by ChatGPT users for what amounts to a promotional campaign for a tech company that’s on the verge of being valued at $300 billion."
#AI #ChatGPT #tech #press #media #news #art #Capitalism #film #meme
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
Blood in the Machine · OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/epa-trump-email-fossil-fuel-exemptions
The Guardian · Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests
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Oil CEOs ask Trump for help fighting climate Superfund laws - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/FmtHW
"The oil and gas industry is ramping up its attacks on climate Superfund laws."