• @[email protected]
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    14010 months ago

    The richest one percent spending their money to keep everyone else poor. I’m shocked, shocked i tell you. Well, not that shocked, maybe just hungry? Eat the rich.

    • @[email protected]
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      Trebuchets won’t give you indigestion, are environmentally and economically friendly, easy to assemble, and require no permits to own or operate. They are also capable of flinging the fattest of fatcats at least 150m, which is either far enough, or we fire again.

      #YeetTheRich

      ^(this message brought to you by the trebuchet meme gang)

    • @[email protected]
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      7010 months ago

      Yeah that might cut into the billionaires profits, so no UBI for you. Here’s a UTI instead.

      • @RamblingPanda
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        That’s not a bad deal. Without healthcare or a steady income that’s something that’ll last a while.

    • @[email protected]
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      4210 months ago

      I think the main reason is that if you had an UBI, you’d be way more eager to join a union, strike, or quit a shitty job. They know their fortune is built on labour exploitation, even the supposed ‘tech’ companies.

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        1610 months ago

        Other businesses are competition. Arguably worse than quitting that shitty job; not only aren’t you willing to work for them for a shitty job/wage, you’re making it more likely they’ll have to compete for labor and profits.

    • Milksteaks [he/him]
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      510 months ago

      One thing I can say, if I had UBI, 100% of it would go to my landleech to line his pockets

  • @[email protected]
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    6610 months ago

    Why is no one also mad at the lobbying group? They come up with ideas to thwart any improvement for us all and don’t see any ethical issues with what they are doing. Being paid to be genuinely evil is something that shouldn’t exist as a job.

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      2510 months ago

      Because there’s a lot of naive people who think that we can fight lobbying of big corporations by bunch of people and small business cooperation with each other.

      Lol.

      Imagine bunch of people trying to cooperate in lobbying vs 1 paid lawyer with unlimited budget

  • @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    This really speaks to the issue of the ultra-wealthy being more interested in power over others than satiating their own needs or desires. Pathetic on their part, like a mental illness for power, manifest through the accumulation of money.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      It’s not really much of a surprise, human beings have been lying for power and influence over a dominion for thousands of years. The modern iteration isn’t much different, aside from the modern global reach.

  • @[email protected]
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    4610 months ago

    If we know who the billionaires are, why don’t we, like, just get rid of them? This is the easiest trolley problem.

  • circuitfarmer
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    3810 months ago

    Whenever anyone tells me that capitalism leads to efficient solutions or some such BS, I point them to things like this.

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      110 months ago

      Come on. You realise things aren’t all bad or all good right?

      Yes it’s true that capitalism hasn’t worked out, but it’s not true that capitalism has no beneficial qualities whatsoever.

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          110 months ago

          I don’t really understand. Perhaps you’re looking for a net benefit. As I said, things aren’t all bad or all good.

          As you said yourself, Capitalism is very efficient.

          It’s technological or administrative requirements are minimal. If you want to get from a pre-industrial feudal society to a sophisticated modern utopia, you can’t go straight to socialism. We needed capitalism.

            • @[email protected]
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              110 months ago

              Like it or not, contemporary tech was created from those resources extracted from the environment and the working class.

                • @[email protected]
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                  110 months ago

                  you’re cherry picking one paragraph

                  Cherry Picking means selecting a single set of data that supports my argument while ignoring other data to the contrary. It does not mean selecting only a part of your argument to rebut.

                  in hopes of creating a false dichotomy

                  A false dichotomy means reducing a large set of choices to merely two. an assertion that technology is dependent on capitalism is not that.

                  a strawman

                  Pretty much any argument can be categorised as a strawman.

                  Listing logical fallacies in order to make yourself appear more knowledgeable would work better if you could identify them correctly.

                  Regardless, I’m not going to be able to reason with someone who makes ridiculous claims like “Capitalism is a disease on this planet” (which is an appeal to emotion by the way), so I’ll leave you to congratulate yourself on winning this little tete-a-tete. I look forward to reading your parting witticism.

      • bane_killgrind
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        What? Capitalism has no intentional benefits that aren’t personal.

        Every single feature benefits specific people instead of… Everybody.

        Are you high?

  • Endmaker
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    3710 months ago

    The conspiracy theory that there’s a small group of evil, rich people controlling the world keeps getting validated.

    • @[email protected]
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      1710 months ago

      it’s really astounding how many people choose to believe that poor people and minorities are the REAL problem, despite the fact that rich people are consistently and quite obviously being cartoonishly evil

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    There HAS to be a good chunk of the population that are poor as fuck, that way rich folks can keep getting those who work for them by the balls “you fuck around and I’ll hire that person who’s dying to take your job with a lot less pay than you” . Why do you think they hate unions and UBI and other things that could make people live a bit comfortable?

    Here is a good video about it

    • varoth
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      1310 months ago

      Because if we get most of our needs met by UBI, we’d have less reason to work their horrible low paying jobs and less likely to stay a wage slave.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Yup. And they know we know that. It is now officially a fight between us and them, quite literally.

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    Downvote me if you want but using ai images in an article bashing the rich is extremely hypocritical. AI is a content theft machine that takes from artist so websites like this can generate images without paying actual artist.