Your lack of becoming a millionaire, billionaire, or future, trillionaire is not a reflection of yourself being lazy, or lacking any ambition.
You have not failed in life, nor have you wasted your life, simply because you are similar to the average person, who will never wake up wealthy through hard work and determination.
#Capitalism #Economics
#Argentina: #GeneralStrike called against repression of protests, economic policies like wage suppression, and increased #IMF debt
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/14/argentina-s-cgt-announces-24-hour-general-strike
Happy Pi Day, fediverse!
And since it's also Albert Einstein's birthday, here's a quote from his 1949 article "Why Socialism?":
"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil."
He sure was a smart guy.
#Germany: #Ubisoft game devs seek to hold management accountable for #layoffs. "The bosses take the profits, but don’t care for the workers."
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/ubisoft-dusseldorf-layoffs-solidarity-verdi-uni-global-union/
#Argentina: "we will all be retirees" - retirees organize march against government over #pensions, joined by football fans and #unions. Government responds with tear gas and water jets
We can have one of two things — but not both.
We can either have a society that tolerates (celebrates?) millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere...
Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and NO billionaires at all.
Your choice.
Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
Who needs a giant asteroid when we have these assholes?
Speaking of waste and fraud and abuse, why is SpaceX being allowed to launch one faulty rocket after another?
The environmental impact is colossal.
All that debris is causing airports to be shut down.
People and private property are at risk.
If anything, shut down SpaceX !!
#Fraud #Waste #Abuse #SpaceX #Wednesday #Florida #US #Corruption #Greed #Capitalism
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/spacex-debris-grounds-flights-at-south-florida-airports/
The idea that anyone can be rich if they are willing to work hard enough is the biggest piece of propaganda of the last 200 years. It's designed to keep the working class quietly working and supporting the wealthy class, believing that they will one day be wealthy, too.
'Job creators' is just another term for 'taskmasters'. And the idea behind the two terms is exactly the same. Keep them in line. Keep them working. Keep them under control.
@antifaintl Fantastic juxtaposition - powerful support for the case that capitalism is a Darwinian selection system for predators & sociopaths
@thetyee Late stage #capitalism driven by extreme and fast exploitation of the natural world and #corporategreed have captured politicians of all stripes. The @BCNDP are among the worst hypocrites in #Canada. They could be Liberals or Conservatives!
Tech bros are living, breathing embodiments of the false authority fallacy; claiming that their professed understanding of basic logic qualifies them to reason expertly upon every conceivable topic while conveniently ignoring a fundamental maxim of their purported core area of expertise: garbage in, garbage out.
What you are essentially seeing in the world today is politicians bought off by corporate interests and then the population held to ransom by those same interests.
This is exactly why, economically and politically, its complete foolishness to put your eggs in one centrally controlled basket.
We won't get out of this easily - or perhaps even at all. Some mistakes are fatal.
We just tried to check out on the #Sonic app and it offered us a pop-up ad for financing our food. Then Capital One, finally then Disney+/Hulu. I asked to speak to the manager and asked them to relay to the District Manager that I wouldn't be shopping with them anymore while it was happening
Capitalism makes everything it touches worse, including people. I have seen people losing half of their empathy and kindness after becoming landlord or the boss of their own company. And they tend to normalise absolutely disgusting behaviours like hiking prices in time of crisis, accepting, defending the practice of, and using unpaid child labour, becoming insensitive to other people's suffering on a personal pr global scale.....
This shit has to go.
#Capitalism
Benn Jordan does it again: “You are witnessing the death of American capitalism”.
Great video, great insights. Rings true, with all that’s happening around us today. The Great Techbro Takeover is real, and it’s because once you accumulate enough wealth, money in itself ceases to be an important measure of wealth.
It’s a long watch, but a good one. Please check it out.
