Wherever there are resources to take, capital will flow. Wherever there is cheaper labor to exploit, corporations will settle. Where labor laws are less established, where government may be efficiently bribed, and where human rights may be easily subordinated to profits, America will show up with a glowing halo to spread âdemocracy.â
Intelligent machines replacing workers and creating a deflationary environment was supposed to be great, as it was expected that workers would be able to work less and buy more due to greater efficiency within the system.
In reality, those that leverage the capital never made those returns available to the workers, but extracted more profits for themselves while leaving the jobless destitute.
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
â Malcolm X
Centralization has nothing to do with control over amount. It has to do with control over decisions. In a POS protocol, the man who owns the most, votes the most. Like the dollar
Whatâs the nicest, most respectful way to tell my crypto-buddy âI told you so?â
Could it have been a combination of taking out a lot of cash, orange-pilling the teller, and telling the branch manager that what I do with my money is none of the bankâs damn business?
Nah. I think maybe I took too many of the suckers from the childrenâs bowl đ¤ˇââď¸đż
Now I have to figure out where I can safely store my work-energy đ¤
Welcome to the bad-behavior club, Brother. I got de-banked last week.
I just saw that I can zap myself. Man, I should have been rewarding my thoughtful content long ago!
There is no free market. The norm now is for hospital systems to come into private practices and give them a choice. Either sell the practice to the University system, or lose hospital privileges. A primary care doctor without hospital privileges is dead in the water. Thatâs not a free market. Thatâs big Capital gobbling up the remnants of free enterprise.
People are too distracted by his actions to be willing to consider his motivations. Itâs understandable, but such blindness keeps people from understanding the motivations of some important historical figures. Killing people is unethical by every standard and immoral by most. But bad actions are not necessarily irrational. The man wrote about his motivations. His manifesto is worth a read.
Adherence to ideologies is a form of logical fallacy by way of appeal to the majority. First identify yourself with a group or idea by associating with one or two common beliefs, and then subscribe to the entire set of packaged beliefs to which that particularly group subscribes.
It saves a lot of time not having to evaluate each problem independently on its own merits, but packing unrelated beliefs together leads to an inconsistent belief structure that an independent man of reason would never allow
Iâm all about fucking the machine đ⌠but Iâm also down to join in with any community protest or social movement I can findâŚwhether I agree with the cause or not đżđ
And yet another great past-time that has fallen victim to the financialization of the world. No more bookstores. No more sitting and reading for hours on end. At best, one finds a Barnes and Noble filled with adult toys and Nicholas Sparks books. Walk in looking for inspiration; walk out feeling distressed and common. The books that a community reads is a good sign of the quality of their thoughts
Is anybody struck by the irony that a man who targeted people who contributed to the advancement of technology because of his concern for that technologyâs destructive potential for the future of humanityâŚ.has died at the beginning of the AI revolution which we may or may not be able to control?
When the insurance industry forces a doctor to limit himself to 8 minutes with a patient, itâs hard to do much more than prescribe a pill. Doctors mean well. They are victims of the financialization of their industry in the same way as most others are. A push to faster and cheaper at the expense of better. That means greater profits for the insurance and hospital conglomerates. Thatâs called capitalism.
Inequities are never out of date. When forgotten, they will be repeated.
Understanding the pattern within the system is more important than recognizing current deficiencies. Itâs the pattern that reminds us of the erroneous design. When the structure is **designed** for exploitation of the masses, and to shift wealth into the hands of the few, it is not one that can be corrected. It needs to be replaced.
Book recommendation: âThe Sick was is the System.â - Richard Wolff