I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”
I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.
If you look at every investment in “AI” as the ruling ownership class trying to find a way to make profit without having to pay actual people, all of their enthusiasm begins to make sense.
I was a jailer for two years. Not proud of it, I needed the money.
One of the repeat offenders we had was an old man who was HIV positive. He went to jail several times while I was working there and always for the same thing. He would shoplift items from a store while in full view of a cop. This old man had a cane and could barely walk. There was no way he expected to get away with it.
After he was arrested we had to process him and the medical questions always led back to his HIV diagnosis. The state provided him with his HIV medication while he was awaiting trial where he always pleaded guilty. He was always released after serving less than 60 days pretrial. Upon release, he was given six months worth of his HIV medications (which he needed to survive) and he would shoplift again when he ran out of medication.
It would have been cheaper for the state to just give him the medications without him needing to be part of the criminal justice system first.
He was shoplifting so he could stay alive.
#Healthcare #luigimangione #denydefenddepose #Anticapitalism #EatTheRich
Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important.
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/
It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany).
#economics #tax
Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.
Thought for the day:
Billionaires are a symptom of poverty.
(Paraphrasing Iain Banks on money, but more specific to our times because we still need some way to allocate scarce resources, just: not like that.)
"Billionaires are a symptom of poverty."
Every once in a while I'm reminded that my "wasting time" on this site is not wasting time, because it's how I can incredible ideas or articulations like this.
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My daughters and I are feeding cows 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each and that's what makes us so relatable and makes it so clear we don't need to be taxed at 95+ percent of our income.
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Pillaged from BlueSky:
"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital."
"I taught my kids about democracy last night. I had them vote on which movie to watch and what pizza to order. I then picked the pizza and which movie to watch because I'm the one with the money."
#democracy #capitalism #fascism #goodgovernment #dadjokes
I started reading the newspapers early in life, mostly during mealtimes (a bad habit I picked up from my father). Eventually I started reading the business sections as well. One of things that always …
Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,800,000,000
Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $160,900,000,000
Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $105,200,000,000
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25
Three words: tax the rich.
I'm not going to act like an expert on labor organizing. I didn't have that term in my vocabulary four years ago. Now it's one of the anchoring aspects of my life and something I'm deeply passionate …
MillerKnoll says a video of CEO Andi Owen telling employees to stop "thinking about what you’re going to do if you don’t get a bonus" was taken "out of context."
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about cho...
Lately it feels like we’ve transitioned from late capitalism to full on after-hours capitalism. Eerie vibes. No rules or regulations to speak of. Aggressive weirdos with power making everyone uncomfortable.
What do Docker, GitLab, and Red Hat have in common? Aside from various levels of participation in open source, they’ve all been punching bags over the past few years for non-paying users angr…
The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously we’re taking the climate crisis
Si admira a Elon Musk o a cualquier otro millonario.
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My only Netflix stock take is that maybe it isn't actually smart to base our entire financial system on the belief that everything needs to grow constantly forever to have any value.
Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2022: $273,600,000,000
Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2022: $181,300,000,000
Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2022: $76,800,000,000
U.S. Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2022: $7.25
Three words: tax the rich.
In 2020 @JeffBezos made $8 million an hour. Every hour.
@elonmusk? He made $18 million an hour. Every hour.
The idea philanthropy is the answer when you make that much money is absurd. You can’t give it away quickly enough. The ultra rich should a pay a *lot* more tax.
Jamie Tanna
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#capitalism.
