Capitalism didn’t give us the internet, internet was funded by the taxpayers & developed in the public sector for decades before it was spun off by Big Tech oligarchs to make a fortune on, capitalism gave us paywalls, video ads & pop up screens which make the experience miserable
There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
In a sane world, the government guilty of committing genocide would be dismantled, and forced to pay reparations. Instead they are allowed to corral their victims into a concentration camp and steal their land. We live in the most obscene of all possible timelines.
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
it used to be the economy was the way we provide people with food shelters and other necessities to keep them alive. now we are all supposed to die for the sake of the ecomy. What is this thing they are talking about. is it just code for rich people. class power, or what.
Why is the priority of the economy not to house the homeless and ensure everyone has good healthcare?
photo of hardcover copy of "the ultimate hidden truth of the world" by david graeber, bold black font on yellow background
david graeber's book is sustaining me right now in this cursed timeline. i read two sentences at a time and have to put it down with my hand over my heart
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
If I were Lord Emperor of America I would simply design an economic system where housing price do NOT rise faster than salaries always and forever.
550 days streak on Boot dev
It is absolutely mind-boggling that I woke up today in the world’s worst natural experiment: what happens to a society when the entirety of a state’s public goods infrastructure is ripped out by the roots and replaced solely by the infrastructure of state violence.
The US attack on Iran was unprovoked and illegal, done in cooperation with a regime that is currently perpetrating a genocide, whose leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court. That is the world we are in.
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
No country has ever been destroyed by migrants just wanting a better life for their family.
Many though have been destroyed by authoritarianism and fascism.
It's cool how during a period when the wealth divide is greater than almost any other time in history, Republicans are still just like "not enough!! More money for the rich!"
There truly is no upper limit until one asshole owns the entire earth apparently.
Finished the first five books of the Sun Eater series
#booksky #suneater #reading #somanybookssolittletime
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber
me: i’d like a raise
boss: do you deserve it?
me, trying to figure out if i deserve to live: give me a minute
Capitalism didn't give us the internet.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
Happy May Day!
To all who labour - in factories, farms, sweatshops; in formal & informal economies, waged & unwaged & underwaged; sex workers, Palestinian workers; land defenders; those labouring to grow communities. For a world w/o bosses & precarity and where all labour is valued & life affirming
"Lazy" is a term capitalists use to describe anyone who (1) refuses to be exploited by them, or (2) refuses to join them in exploiting others.
Screenshot of text: “66 THERE were two "Reigns of Terror," if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror-that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. —Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”
As long as we’re doing French Revolution takes, let’s all remember that Mark Twain’s is undefeated:
You don't need tariffs, you need a revolution
youtu.be/uf_GCOSZ2bA?...
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
When we learn about the Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the dehumanization, the total domination and the exercise of arbitrary violence. We feel the terror in our bones. And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every single day.
