#Capitalism

[gamechangershow]

He would do anything for points, but he won't do that!

[politijohn]

Source

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Long overdue

[theconcealedweapon]

Rich People: "I want to price gouge and plan obsolescence without having to worry about competition. Government, enforce my patents."

Rich People: "I want firepower to uphold my enormous wealth. Government, hire police officers with taxpayer money to protect my property from thieves and trespassers."

Rich People: "I want a source of cheap labor. Government, enforce laws against victimless actions in order to put people in prison so I can exploit them as slaves, then brand them with criminal records so they'll take any low wage job that's offered to them in the future."

Rich People: "There are homeless people existing who are not generating profit for me. Government, hire police officers with taxpayer money to arrest them for loitering, and use taxpayer money to build hostile architecture."

Rich People: "Homeless people are eating food that my business discarded, which doesn't generate profit for me. Government, hire police officers with taxpayer money to guard the dumpster."

Rich People: "Marijuana is competition for me as a pharmaceutical CEO. Government, ban marijuana."

Rich People: "I build weapons. Government, create wars and buy my weapons with taxpayer money."

Poor People: "I can't afford what I need to live. Government, financially assist me, require my employer to pay me more, or limit rich people's ability to increase prices."

Rich People: "Stop relying on government for everything and taking people's freedom!"

[anexperimentallife]

[lilithism1848]

[beggars-opera]

Navigating the late-stage capitalist hellscape of hundreds of increasingly expensive streaming services riddled with ads and realizing that you don't actually have to put up with their bullshit:

[keirstarmerhateblog]

It's pretty grim how the term 'studio apartment' has gone from meaning a flat with an open plan kitchen/living room with a bedroom and a bathroom, to a bedsit akin to a room in a student halls flat, and the audacity to want a grand a month rent for one

[marxman1]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee held a hearing on Wednesday with Boeing quality engineer and whistleblower Sam Salehpour. The topic was ongoing and serious safety and quality issues surrounding the Boeing 777 “Triple Seven” and 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

[dylsexai]

If you're LGBT and you think you need to vote Biden instead of voting for a third party. I understand. I get it, I really do. The problem here is that you're falling for the foot in the face technique.

You're relying on a man who is committing genocide to come to your aid out of the goodness of his heart. He'll be on his lame duck term after the election, which means he has nothing to gain from helping you.

We're talking about a man who authored the extremely racist Crime Bill, which saw thousands of black men sentenced to life in prison for simple drug possession. We're talking about a known segregationist who opposed bussing 20 years after Brown. A man who eulogised Strom Thurmond. A man who pushed for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Why exactly would you expect anything of him?

[dazai-fan-page]

hey now im no politician but maybe if homelessness is a problem and we got empty houses we just put the people in the houses

like without making them pay a shit load of money

actually maybe all our basic needs should be met free of cost bc being alive shouldnt cost money

yeah

dazai for tags

[theconcealedweapon]

I have a friend who works as a DJ at a karaoke bar. She had a jar for tips. I gave her $20, which I can easily afford because I get paid $35 an hour and I don't pay rent because I live in my childhood home which my grandmother already owns. She acted like it was a major act of generosity.

I've also occasionally given $20 to homeless people, and they also acted like it was a major act of generosity.

Meanwhile, if you're working multiple jobs for a low wage and struggling to pay your bills and you give $50 to your landlord every single day, they'll make you homeless when they decide that they want $55 a day and you can no longer afford it.

And that's because poor and working class people are expected to question whether they deserve every penny that they have. They feel guilty accepting a gift from someone who can easily afford it. Meanwhile, capitalists regularly receive much more, and all they care about is trying to increase it further. A gift to your friend that seems like a lot is peanuts compared to what people regularly give to capitalists.

[nando161mando]

My favorite explanation of "antiwork"

[lilithism1848]

[pseudoherpetologist]

Sooooo Watcher is currently imploding and I have a lot of thoughts about it, especially on my anxiety of what this might mean if their streaming service actually works.

Spoilers on today’s announcement video: Watcher is moving all of their content to their own streaming platform for a fee of $5.99 /month, and they are also archiving all their old content so we cannot watch it for free anymore. This is supposed to all happen by May 31st.

I fit within the majority of feeling disappointed and betrayed. I can’t afford that, and even if I could, why would I support that when other options have not been tried yet? A patreon? Exclusive content? More merch? It’s frustrating seeing creators we trusted to understand and empathize with their audience slap us across the face like this.

I keep thinking of other channels, other companies, that have been on YouTube for longer and have not done something like this to us. Game Theory, Try Guys, Smosh, Drawfee, the list goes on and on. I understand their content might be less work/ money to make, but I feel like most fans would be fine if the quality had to go down a little for us to keep everything free. We don’t need a whole complex set design for them to teach us history or weird mysteries and love it.

And lastly the reason why it gives me so much anxiety is if this actually does marginally well, we might see more YouTubers alienate their content like this for money. Not only would we have major streaming services to worry about, but now all these minor ones too for YouTube content creators that have 1/100th of the available media. I’m exhausted.