#capitalism is a cancer

[captaintrio]

so in order to live you have to have money. in order to get money you have to be paid by working for a wage. in order to work you have to find a place that's hiring, make it through the application process, get the job, and then keep it. the job you get is allowed to do everything they can to pay you as little as possible and will play chicken with labor laws to treat you as poorly as possible until you quit or give them a reason to fire you. you have to either work several of these miserable jobs or weird long hours at one of them in order to afford even basic things.

in this, somehow, the employers that mistreat and attempt not to pay you are the righteous pillars of society, and you, the person being mistreated by a system built to exploit and disenfranchise you, are the bad lazy one for being "poor."

and somehow the people responsible for this are not like dead with their heads on sticks or in baskets or anything. they're just like having smoothies somewhere. tell me why.

#av speaks #my level of directionless anger grows daily #capitalism is a cancer #money is made up to make it seem like perfectly shareable resources are scarce #and I'm going to go insane very soon I think

[jacquesthepigeon]

I don’t want to make peace with either living away from home until I retire or unlivable wages that put me under the poverty line

#capitalism is a cancer

[krembearry]

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#hey g its me #dude i am forever caught in a loop of i need to work i need to draw i need to write my stories i need to be making something #i spend so much time just sitting here and not moving and my head hurts #if i'm working i'm not spending time with the things i love #if i spend time with the things i love i cant make enough money #capitalism is a cancer #i wish i knew how to make a wider audience care about my shit enough it would be worth it to work on as a living #instead i am just sitting here again! motionless and frozen by needing to make a choice #both of which are on complete opposite spectrums but both need to be done #though like. my art DOESNT need to be done but work DOES #augh i miss having a job i would physically go to but nothing is close enough to safely walk and we live on a gravel road #cant scooter there #i keep thinking oh well if we could just be living on our own but i can barely make the rent here #the things i'd do to have a roommate we could trust #i wish i had a dedicated workspace augh #this is so much venting sorry...

[vettesebas]

welp, let go from the temp job. not just me, all the temps who survived the Great Temp Culling a few weeks ago. you know, those of us left who pretty much made the IT department what it is right now. the ones who facilitated four city elections in 10 months with zero experience. the ones who were criminally underpaid from the start, lived through a middle manager leaving and not getting replaced, and still can't be kept due to budget restraints.

i shouldn't be surprised they did us so dirty. this job has smacked of mindblowing incompetence since day one. and to think i believed them when they have an end date of 2-3 months. that i had hope. some illusion of stability while i found something better. and our supervisor didn't even have the guts to tell us to our faces. fucking typical.

i can't even look at the pluses right now. i'm just so pissed and let down and kicked to the curb by capitalism, again and again and again.

#personal #i feel sick #capitalism is a cancer #i kicked ASS at this job and it just never fucking matters

[sakebytheriver]

The way I've just completely given up on all streaming platforms even though my family has like all of them and all I use now is pirating sites

#ignore me #capitalism is a cancer

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

#class war #class warfare #classism #capitalism #cancer #hugh culliton

[ifwebefriends]

#I’m a cancer survivor and yeah capitalism is a cancer #steamboat willie #mickey mouse #free palestine #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbt pride #lgbtq #capitalism #eat the rich #gay rights #trans rights #palestine

[politijohn]

Source

#health care #capitalism #news #current events #Medicare for all #public health #the left #cancer

[therobotmonster]

There's a nuance to the Amazon AI checkout story that gets missed.

Because AI-assisted checkouts on its own isn't a bad thing:

This was a big story in 2022, about a bread-checkout system in Japan that turned out to be applicable in checking for cancer cells in sample slides.

But that bonus anti-cancer discovery isn't the subject here, the actual bread-checkout system is. That checkout system worked, because it wasn't designed with the intent of making the checkout cashier obsolete, rather, it was there to solve a real problem: it's hard to tell pastry apart at a glance, and the customers didn't like their bread with a plastic-wrapping and they didn't like the cashiers handling the bread to count loaves.

So they trained the system intentionally, under controlled circumstances, before testing and launching the tech. The robot does what it's good at, and it doesn't need to be omniscient because it's a tool, not a replacement worker.

Amazon, however, wanted to offload its training not just on an underpaid overseas staff, but on the customers themselves. And they wanted it out NOW so they could brag to shareholders about this new tech before the tech even worked. And they wanted it to replace a person, but not just the cashier. There were dreams of a world where you can't shoplift because you'd get billed anyway dancing in the investor's heads.

Only, it's one thing to make a robot that helps cooperative humans count bread, and it's another to try and make one that can thwart the ingenuity of hungry people.

The foreign workers performing the checkouts are actually supposed to be training the models. A lot of reports gloss over this in an effort to present the efforts as an outsourcing Mechanical Turk but that's really a side-effect. These models all work on datasets, and the only place you get a dataset of "this visual/sensor input=this purchase" is if someone is cataloging a dataset correlating the two...

Which Amazon could have done by simply putting the sensor system in place and correlating the purchase data from the cashiers with the sensor tracking of the customer. Just do that for as long as you need to build the dataset and test it by having it predict and compare in the background until you reach your preferred ratio. If it fails, you have a ton of market research data as a consolation prize.

But that could take months or years and you don't get to pump your stock until it works, and you don't get to outsource your cashiers while pretending you've made Westworld work.

This way, even though Amazon takes a little bit of a PR bloody nose, they still have the benefit of any stock increase this already produced, the shareholders got their dividends.

Which I suppose is a lot of words to say:

#amazon AI #ai discourse #amazon just walk out #just walk out #the only thing that grows forever is cancer #capitalism #amazon

[larsnicklas]

[240307 wsh at pit] capitals rookie ivan miroshnichenko scores his first nhl goal. miroshnichenko was washington's first round pick in 2022; he was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma that year and briefly stepped away from hockey to (successfully) receive treatment. he is now in full remission and looks to be a crucial piece of the capitals youth movement for years to come.

+ miro gets some love from the steadfast veterans

#ivan miroshnichenko #capitals #washington capitals #nhl #nhledit #hockeyedit #hockey #meg.caps #meg.gif #meg.all #perfect game actually. #so happy for him and his family and also. for the whole team!!! #there's LOVE in this house your honor!!! #something about the way they pulled together today after two trades in the past 24 hours. #my caps i LOVE you #cancer mention cw #illness cw

[thornescratch]

The magnificent duality of Tom Wilson.

#My big rowdy boy #He fights people he fights cancer is there anything he can't do #Tom Wilson #Washington Capitals #Caps with kids #Hockey fights cancer

[the-leftist-n-slander-kids]

Stop getting envious over things you’ll never be or nor will ever have. This is about us personally 💕

Not all of us hate being a minority. I personally love my actual ADHD, my actual GAD, my actual OCD, my actual PTSD, my actual Dyscalculia. and actual queerness! What we hate is when you try and become us and take our resources. Like Capitalism is already a struggle for us, don’t make it worse by taking things. Our struggle is real, and a constant battle. Just because we had to battle for the spot we have today doesn’t mean we hate what we battled for. And as much as you claim to understand us, or relate to us, you’ll never know how it feels to walk outside and wait for police to brutalize you. Or waiting for laws that say “Oh well, you’re ugly to us now! Soo… never go outside again!” or for people to hurt you for being actually a minority. Unlike us, who can’t choose to take off the things that make us minorities when things get rough YOU CAN! You may want to be us but you’ll never be us. Unless of course, God suddenly comes down and is like “Sure!!1” or I mean, you actually become disabled from things you can’t control like an illness or something else. But ig you Transableds and transracers will just have to pray for that—

Anyways.

Actual black people are beautiful

Actual Queer people are beautiful

Actual Asians are beautiful

Actual Non-white people are beautiful

Actual disabled and neurodivergent people are beautiful (even if you are self diagnosed! Self diagnosed ≠ “Transabled/Transneurodivergent”)

#actually mentally ill #actually adhd #actually disabled #anti radqueer safe #proud antiship #capitalism is cancer #radqueers dni #communism is the answer #anti radqueer #anti radshit #anti kandiqueer #anti transid #anti transautistic #anti proship #anti transage #anti transrace #anti proshitter #anti capitalism #antiradqueer #just anti things #neurodivergent #neurotypical #minority #minorities #leftism #leftist #proshitters dni #fuck proshippers #pro self dx #pro self diagnosis

[profeminist]

“Everyone gets a plate before anyone gets seconds” but for housing."

- Garrett Reuscher

#human rights #housing #capitalism is cancer

[anarchistin]

The Environmental Protection Agency approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic that the agency’s own risk formula determined was so hazardous, everyone exposed to the substance continually over a lifetime would be expected to develop cancer.

Current and former EPA scientists said that threat level is unheard of. It is a million times higher than what the agency usually considers acceptable for new chemicals and six times worse than the risk of lung cancer from a lifetime of smoking.

#capitalism #cancer #health #chevron #epa

[unimatrix-420]

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

#quotes #edward abbey #growth #cancer #anarchy #anarchist #anarchism #socialism #communism #economics #capitalism #anticapitalism

[birdsaretoddlers]

literally hate doing this but my car insurance AND my registration AND my taxes are all due at once and are going to fuck me financially so if anybody is feeling generous could you dunk a fiver into my Kofi? thank you xoxo

#if they were spread out between paychecks it would be fine but its not #its ALL AT ONCE and i JUST got paid #auuughh. #feel free to ignore this post btw but holy fuck lmao. capitalism is a cancer #bird droppings #hell world hell world hell world