I am now convinced that capitalism is evil

[ignatius]

[milkface]

 

[iococoi]

[zlemflolia]

capitalism causes mental illness.  it's impossible to not be mentally ill under capitalism.  even the most well adjusted and mentally "healthy" people are forced each day to either contribute to an exploitative system of capitalism, and be exploited themselves.  but it doesn't have to be this way, and it will not be forever.  humanity will eventually overcome its place in the current historical moment by being made aware of it and collectively acting.  it's impossible that scientific knowledge can be kept hidden forever.  and the science of socialism will eventually assert itself throughout our society.  in the way other sciences became public is not how economic science can evolve.  because we have not yet achieved any economic science.  still we are chained and shackled to the owning class just as their existence as they know it as a class is shackled to our existence as the working class.  the bourgeoisie depends on the working class moreso than the working class depends upon the bourgeoisie.  we have not even entered the scientific age yet because most science is privately owned, only through abolishing private property can this current stage of capitalism be transcended

Edited February 23, 2022 by ilqx hermolia xpli

[Zephyr_Nova]

I did some shrooms, went for a walk, and was horrified at the endless rows of houses/concrete/powerlines for as far as the eye could see.  The trees looked like part of a grotesque zoo, caged within these bizarre prisons of "private property," where all the animals who used to live there had been forced out.  To me they represented the earth screaming out, falling upon the deaf ears of oblivious prisoners to materialism.  lol.  I finally made it to the ocean, gazed up at the moon in awe and heard myself utter the words "take me."  That's it.  That's my story.  Some anti-capitalist undertones fo' yo' azz.

[iococoi]

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In ‘Alien’ Horror Comes In The Form of Labor Exploitation

https://filmschoolrejects.com/alien-movie-labor-exploitation/

[cichlisuite]

He talks like a lawyer, no substance, beating around the bush. I skipped through it and even that exhausted me.

I imagine how the dinner conversation must be.

Wife: Honey, what would you like to eat?
Zuck: My current nutritional requirements are signalling a desire for broccoli and steak.
*turns over to his kids*
Zuck: My community guidelines obligate me to inquire about your well being. Was your education and peer interaction satisfactory today?
Kids: Yes, daddy. Look, I drew a dinosaur!
Zuck: It is increasingly important for offsprings of your age to engage in a meaningful exchange of social interactions and ideas at school. We are continually engaging in providing our offspring an environment in which they can grow and provide service to society.
Kids: Do you like it?
Zuck: My research has shown that your image depicts what appears to be a Stegosaurus living in Triassic era. This is obviously something we recognize as an anomaly. Also, stegosaurus was probably not yellow, but we will continue to engage in this conversation and provide necessary insight for our offspring, because we believe it is mutually beneficial for your tightly knit nuclear society.
Kids: But I don't understand daddy, I saw a cartoon yesterday, and Larry the dinosaur looked exactly like that.
Zuck: Let me circle back and provide you with an explanation on how we can grow along with our understanding of natural history. We would not be able to grow as a society if the information we acquire and share is not accurate.
*Kids start crying*
Wife: Please, Mark, look what you have done now.
Zuck: I am aware that the current interaction could lead to non-constructive dialogue, but this predates the internet. How can we alleviate the amount of discomfort that ignorance bears?

...

[Satans Little Helper]

4 minutes ago, cichlisuite said:

He talks like a lawyer, no substance, beating around the bush. I skipped through it and even that exhausted me.

I imagine how the dinner conversation must be.

Wife: Honey, what would you like to eat?
Zuck: My current nutritional requirements are signalling a desire for broccoli and steak.
*turns over to his kids*
Zuck: My community guidelines obligate me to inquire about your well being. Was your education and peer interaction satisfactory today?
Kids: Yes, daddy. Look, I drew a dinosaur!
Zuck: It is increasingly important for offsprings of your age to engage in a meaningful exchange of social interactions and ideas at school. We are continually engaging in providing our offspring an environment in which they can grow and provide service to society.
Kids: Do you like it?
Zuck: My research has shown that your image depicts what appears to be a Stegosaurus living in Triassic era. This is obviously something we recognize as an anomaly. Also, stegosaurus was probably not yellow, but we will continue to engage in this conversation and provide necessary insight for our offspring, because we believe it is mutually beneficial for your tightly knit nuclear society.
Kids: But I don't understand daddy, I saw a cartoon yesterday, and Larry the dinosaur looked exactly like that.
Zuck: Let me circle back and provide you with an explanation on how we can grow along with our understanding of natural history. We would not be able to grow as a society if the information we acquire and share is not accurate.
*Kids start crying*
Wife: Please, Mark, look what you have done now.
Zuck: I am aware that the current interaction could lead to non-constructive dialogue, but this predates the internet. How can we alleviate the amount of discomfort that ignorance bears?

...

From the bits and pieces I've seen, it's pretty clear Lex is fairly critical. And Zuckerschnitzel usually avoids addressing the issue and instead throws in a bunch of legally safe answers. Which does make sense, given the potential legal scrutiny. The fact the Zuck even considered doing the interview suggests to me they're desperately trying to save either the company and/or Zucks position within the metaverse. Plus, his virtual reality visions don't make any sense to me whatsoever. My guess is, Zuckyboy wont make it till X-mas running that company. He'll be pushed aside into some vague position where he can do no harm. Sooner than later. IMO

[ignatius]

it's like pre-labor movement america. 

edit: was a screen grab about china's 996 work culture/schedule. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Edited March 7, 2022 by ignatius

[prdctvsm]

If you are looking for

an image, it was

probably deleted.

[zlemflolia]

On 2/28/2022 at 10:20 AM, cichlisuite said:

>let me circle back

lmao

[cichlisuite]

since pharma made money off covid, and now that weapons inc. and oil guys are making money off putin and ukraine, who's next one the list of big spenders? we might be able to predict the next crisis!

[zlemflolia]

3 minutes ago, cichlisuite said:

since pharma made money off covid, and now that weapons inc. and oil guys are making money off putin and ukraine, who's next one the list of big spenders? we might be able to predict the next crisis!

massive hacking and ddosing of all major internet infrastructure forcing people to centralize onto the few high-capital web services that are able to withstand it

[cichlisuite]

3 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

massive hacking and ddosing of all major internet infrastructure forcing people to centralize onto the few high-capital web services that are able to withstand it

right on, cloud storage baby. what's next... my call is agro-corps with climate change, followed by robot dogs because of "civic unrest"

[cern]

All this talk about capitalism is evil 

Is it not anyone that thinks the poor people have it a little bit better over the time? 

Look at USA for example 
 

 

[Zephyr_Nova]

 

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[ignatius]

42 minutes ago, cern said:

Is it not anyone that thinks the poor people have it a little bit better over the time? 

some poor people do. others still languishing like it's a hundred years ago. see mississippi, kentucky.. many rural places in USA. many things only happen due power struggles in government being won out by people who want to make some kind of change. also, gentrification in cities or investments made possible due to tax breaks etc. 

often poor people get moved out of neighborhoods by gentrification.

it's complex and different in different places and it expands and contracts. currently 62% of americans live paycheck to paycheck. 

but ya know.. USA is run like a ponzi scheme or pump and dump scheme... currently republicans are working on a tax bill for when/if they take over the house and senate. this bill raises taxes on the poorest people in the country so "they have some skin in the game" whatever the fuck that means at the scale of the tax payer. jfc it's terrible and cruel. 

[cichlisuite]

This is a copypaste from a NYT article I believe

 

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I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

 

 

[ignatius]

i've posted a bunch of behind the bastards episodes around lately but if you want some clear 'capitalism fucks up lot's of things and enables genocide' well.. here ya go. these 2 episodes about the 'school of the americas' where cia trained the death squads on how to torture/murder the left in central/south america is pretty rough to listen to at times and apparently a lot of the people trained there were brainwashed w/love for capitalism etc. 

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-deadliest-school-in-71503766/

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-the-deadliest-school-in-71599099/

some real crimes against humanity and shit. 

[iococoi]

[iococoi]

 

[prdctvsm]

[iococoi]

 

[ignatius]

 

https://archive.ph/j3zjd

'Lots of companies are going to get vaporized': The tech titans of Silicon Valley are in serious trouble — and they're going to take the rest of the stock market down with them

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"You look pedestrian if you can't see the BIG PICTURE and instead focus on a silly thing like revenue," they told me. According to this founder, the standard retort to questions about profitability for the last decade or so has been: "Amazon wasn't profitable for decades … yada yada."

This strategy works when financial markets are flush with cash, asset prices are going up, and new customers are still flocking in. But that's not happening anymore, so the CEOs of chronically unprofitable companies are finding the religion of sustainability. Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi told employees that it would be cutting costs and hiring in an effort to keep investors and "show them the money." Snapchat — which has only posted a quarterly profit once in its 10-year life — caused tech stocks to tank last week after it warned of a weak sales market and announced a hiring slowdown. Coinbase — the largest US cryptocurrency exchange — had to tell investors it was not at risk of bankruptcy …  but that if it did go bankrupt, well, yeah, its customers may lose all their assets. 

 

Even 20-year-old Tesla is getting smoked in this market. Musk's electric-car company finally started making money in 2020, but even its biggest fans on Wall Street are starting to shy away as problems pile up: new competition from major car manufacturers, issues in China, Musk's weird bid to take over Twitter. Chanos, who has been publicly short the stock for years, calls it "the America Online, the Cisco of this cycle" — companies whose stock went vertical when they were heralded as the future of technology during the last boom, but then just as swiftly led us to the bottom.

 

 

[vkxwz]

On 5/24/2022 at 7:00 PM, prdctvsm said:

If anyone is actually affected by this issue google sci-hub