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Just a guy wandering around, looking at things that interest me! Currently these things are Freedom, Democracy, Decentralisation, Self Sovereignty and Litecoin. (I always cheer for the underdog!)

I wonder how long before the administration says that island never existed and why are you all excited about a patch of sea?

The human race has the ability to decide for itself which direction it travels in. Those people who prefer to keep all the information to themselves so that the greater public are steamrollered into a future that they didn't know was being discussed, are the enemy of humanity. If enough people stand up and talk about the choices on offer, then humanity has a chance to have a future it actually wants rather than the dystopia that our leaders are trying to push us into. 90% of the human species doesn't realise that their lives are on the line right now. You might support that, but are you really sure that you are not part of the 90%?

It may not be new but it will be used against us in time. The control grid is tightening up and if we don't manage to stop it in time, we will be enslaved along with the rest of the planet by the transhumanists who are pushing this final solution...

I guess he hadn't had a lot of affirming interaction since he met her... When the chatbot Eliza was first used in the 60s, similar effects were found, people really do think that something talking back to you and not having any stop moments, (those signs that the listener wants to move on or do something else) means that the programme is actually interested in you and it is ok to keep talking... Most of us are starved for an actual listener to listen to us. If you are starving, then you are more likely to overeat when the opportunity arises!

When the printing presses first came out, people said similar things about those who loved reading books. This is just the old system trying to cope with a new invention....

A great idea until someone accesses that data and uses it for purposes that are not in your best interest. Do you really want your toilet subpoenaed so the Government can find out exactly what you have consumed over a period of time? Can you imagine how bad it would be in a few years when Digital Identity has tied you in with everything you have bought or sold and there are some calories unaccounted for.... Stool pigeon takes on a whole new meaning then....

It is a shame but people do need to back up their material on Rumble and other sites as much as possible. Decentralise the damage points and support alternative media. If you have a followed channel on YouTube and another site, sign up to both and use the one which fits your values best. Effective monopoly sites like YouTube will abuse their customers until they go elsewhere!

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#KarlMarx never heard of Amazon or McDonald’s.

But his 150-year-old theory explains exactly how they operate—and why workers stay broke while billionaires get richer.

Here’s how Marxism maps perfectly onto modern capitalism:

🔁 Surplus Value

Workers at Amazon or McDonald’s create way more value than they’re paid.

That gap—the extra value they produce but don’t get—is what Marx called surplus value.

That’s where profit comes from. Not innovation. Labor.

📦 Amazon

A warehouse worker might pick, pack, and ship hundreds of orders per shift.

They get paid $17/hour.

But that labor creates thousands in revenue.

The surplus flows up—to Bezos, to investors, to stock buybacks.

🍔 McDonald’s

Same thing. Workers flip burgers, take orders, keep things running.

But wages stay low while corporate pockets profits.

Each shift generates value far beyond what workers take home.

📉 Exploitation Isn’t a Buzzword

It’s a formula:

Value produced – wages paid = profit for the owner

The smaller your cut, the higher theirs.

That’s not broken. That’s the system working exactly as designed.

🤖 Mechanization

Amazon loves automation. Fewer workers, faster output.

Marx saw this coming too:

As machines take over, unemployment rises → labor becomes cheaper → profits increase.

🧊 Alienation

In both jobs, workers have no say in what they produce, how they produce it, or what it means.

You’re a cog in a machine.

That’s Marx’s concept of alienation—your work doesn’t belong to you.

💥 Crisis Ahead?

Marx believed capitalism would eventually collapse under its contradictions.

Soaring profits + sinking wages = rising unrest.

Sound familiar?

TL;DR:

Amazon and McDonald’s don’t just prove Marx right.

They’re the playbook for how modern capitalism squeezes the many to enrich the few.

Follow for more & remember,

“The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces.”

— Karl Marx

Well, as a partial analysis of the issues he explained some stuff but his conclusions always seem to end up with people dead in a ditch and the people at the top living the same lives as people at the top always do whilst everyone else starves. If one person was to to everything in a company, they would get all the rewards but all of the problems as well. When people break the job down and everyone does the bit that they are either best at or at least competent to do, then extra value can be generated through their combined efforts, there are always going to be people who are better at pushing a broom rather than selling the product or liaising with other companies for goods and services etc. The natural division of labour means that more people can be fed and supplied as a result of this synergy. Where it does tend to break down over long periods of time, is that people always assume their part of the job is the most important bit and they deserve more pay and status as a result. The guy pushing the broom tends not to get very far in this effort whereas, the person in the board room who associates with likeminded people is in a much better position to advance their status and rewards etc. Over time this compounds across companies, countries and even the world as a whole. Governments in part were supposed to level things out and keep the wheels turning as a whole through regulation, taxation and other measures but they have been captured by the same emergent behaviour.

Marx might have seen the issue but his proposed solutions were just as liable for emergent capture as any other system would have been. Capitalism takes everything from you gradually but there is a possibility of regaining it if you provide value to the system, Communism takes everything from you immediately and the only hope for a better life is to jump over the barbed wire and escape to a Capitalist system!

They push the "Climate Change" narrative so that they will soon be able to track and trace everything you buy and sell, you will end up with a Carbon Allowance that will be very stringent for most of us but the Billionaires will be able to buy and sell Carbon Credits if they have invested in forests and farm land etc. They steal the land and sea from the commons and will be able to live their lives unaffected because of their money...

I hope the Davos crowd were paying attention to the Iranian Bunker Buster bombs recently. Went the time comes, there will be nowhere for them to hide! 😃

The only way we will find out is by playing the game to its eventual conclusion. I am on several social media sites and am discovering that I interact differently with each one even though a lot of the material is the same. Here I am a lot calmer and care more about my reputation. On Facebook, where I use my real name, the algorithm manages to really get under my skin and it is easy to get into some very negative modes of thought and expression. End result is now I spend a lot less time on Facebook and a lot more time being thoughtful in my responses here. Interestingly enough, I am on Bluesky too, but only observe there, I still see a lot of stuff that would trigger me, but since it is being expressed by people who are quite clearly bonkers, somehow it isn't worth engaging with them!

Not sure if it is a case of people being too lazy to zap sats, a lot of them probably haven't got many sats to zap in the first place! Most people are still trapped in a scarcity mindset and haven't realised that if you are not paying for something then you are the product....

Not wanting to dispute the official narrative but Iran has been 3 months from making a bomb for 20 odd years. The USA managed to make several from scratch back in 1940's using far more primitive material and processes.... OK, they were not getting bunker bombed on a regular basis but still I am surprised that Iran hasn't actually managed it yet...