#capitalism sucks

[shutinthenutouse]

#Capitalism sucks #Billionaires suck #tax the rich #tax the church #eat the rich #support unions #fuck capitalism #fuck the billionaires #fuck the corporations #haha #ha ha funny #lmfao #hilarious #funny shit #humor #dank humor #dank memes #meme #meme humor #lol meme

[reggie-gayflx]

#tax the billionaires #tax the rich #tax the churches #fuck the one percenters #fuck the plutocracy #christians are hypocrites #capitalism sucks

[alpaca-clouds]

People are good, actually

Okay, let me talk about this anarchism thing, that a lot of people living under the current capitalist system do not seem to grasp. As it is right now a lot of people view other people as potential threats, because we live in a society that pitches us against each other in constant competition. So even if you do not consider people a physical threat to your safety, you are kinda primed to see them as rivals at least. The only people you can rely on, society says, is your little nuclear family. (And like many queer folks, I can guarantee you: Yeah, that ain't working out for many.) Everybody, so society says, is just out for themselves and if they get a chance, they are gonna backstab you. Figuratively and literally.

It is because of this thinking, that a lot of people struggle to understand things that anarchists are proposing. A world without hierarchies. A world where everybody works together. A world where everybody has the same rights and chances. Because, so they say, in that kinda world some people will just then backstab everyone and go about their marry way with it.

And now, let me make on thing clear: Capitalism loves to push this narrative. Because it kinda needs the poorest to be in constant struggle with one another. So, we get pushed a narrative of rugged individualism. And whenever we have a show about extreme situations, we totally gonna see those characters turn against each other.

But what they do not get is, that this is not what humans are like.

We have more than enough data to proof that, in fact, humans are actually social ebings that will not only look out for each other but will in fact risk their lives to help strangers. Heck, our human capacity for empathy is so fucking big, that people will see a tiger, who might in any other circumstance fucking eat their face, stuck in a well and come together to save the tiger, releasing it to the wild.

And that is kinda one of those ideas that anarchism is based on: People are good, actually. They are just forced to be bad, because in the bad system we have created under capitalism, it is the only way they have to survive.

But as soon as even for a short moment the capitalist system is no longer working for them - for example after a natural desaster - most people will instantly revert to helping one another.

To put it differently: The problem is not people, the problem is forcing people to live in a system in which they have no other choice but to compete against one another, because otherwise they cannot survive. A system, in which people even working towards the same goal often are made to compete, preventing them from building bonds with one another. A system, that forces us to work against our own basic nature.

Which is why anarchism is for overthrowning this fucking system. Because most people under this system are not even living, they are barely surviving. And we, as a species, just can do so much better.

#anarchism #solarpunk #optimism #hope #hopepunk #humanity #humans are good actually #anti capitalism #capitalism sucks #fuck capitalism

[biseggsualitea]

So Australia just voted no to enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians into our constitution. This voice was to be an advisory body with no real legal power over policy. And yet, despite the history of absolute HORRID treatment of Aboriginal Australians (attempted genocide) and the MULTITUDE of issues they continue to face as a marginalised group in our society, WE STILL SAID NO.

I am sitting in my kitchen sobbing. I am grieving for indigenous Australians, who I am sure will suffer greatly as a result of this. I am grieving for the complete backwards step we have taken. I am grieving for the fact that we live in a world where people are so selfish and ignorant that they can't think of the needs of others for the sake of equity.

If we cannot look out for each other, especially when it comes at absolutely no cost to ourselves, what hope do we have?

#voice to parliament #the voice #australia #aus politics #auspol #referendum #equity #equality #capitalism sucks #i hate it here

[felixcloud6288]

If I am ever elected Supreme God Emperor of the World, I will declare September to be "Capitalism Awareness Month". During that month, we will hold the Annual Capitalism Competition where we determine who owns the most capital in the world.

The winner, based on who is worth the most at the end of the month, will be awarded a lovely summer home on a remote private island and $500,000 in cash.

To ensure fairness for next year's competition, the winner will also have all their assets seized and sold and the revenue generated will be used to fund humanitarian aid, public libraries, hospitals, schools, infrastructure, and ecological restoration. Everything built with these funds will have a commemorative plaque stating they were funded by the Capitalism Champion of the year (No names will be given so as not to dox the person).

Because the seized assets will include any houses the winner previously owned, the winner and their $500,000 will be immediately shipped to their new summer home on the remote island so that they are not homeless. There, they can use their incredible business skills to grow their own food, make their own clothes, and otherwise be completely self-sustaining until they naturally become ultra-wealthy once more.

Due to how remote the island is, I will be unable to provide internet or cellular service so it will be impossible to know how they are doing until I send someone 6 months later to bury the winner after they inevitably starved to death. The person I send will also reclaim the $500,000 and clean up the summer home so they can be given to the next winner of the Annual Capitalism Competition.

#capitalism #capitalism sucks #satire #humor #original post

[purpletrashcans]

can we just stop this whole capitalism thing? it's clearly not working and to be honest it is quite annoying

#capitalism #capitalism sucks #capitalist hell #late stage capitalism #eat the rich #this all sucks #we could literally all just stop #this system only exists because we put up with it #i just want to live my life #but i can't because capitalism

[ghost-mafia]

one thing I wish someone would have told me when I was younger is that you are not a failure for not knowing what u want to do with your life at 18, or 25 or even 30. Maybe some ppl have it l figured out straight out of highschool, but I'll let you in on a lil secret: most of us dont.

The notion of having a plan at 18 that you rigorously follow and do not deviate from is a damn lie. Life is sooo much bigger than what you do for money and to think otherwise is absolutely, without a doubt 100% capitalist propaganda and you are better off not buying into that dangerous, happiness-destroying bullshit. it's okay not to know.

#capitalism sucks #i am a failure at capitalism and i am not sad about it #advice from a first wave millennial #capitalism kills #bourgeois pigs

[purplecatruins]

Unfortunately, true!!

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#ambika mod #leo woodall #one day #netflix #one day netflix #career trajectory #structural racism #power matrix of race capitalism and patriarchy #capitalism sucks #twitter #quotes #paul mescal #daisy edgar jones #normal people #normal people vs one day #dex x em #dexter x emma

[icaruspendragon]

hi this is me gently reminding you all that i have things like patreon and kofi and do to a major depressive episode i’ve been going through for the past couple of months i’ve been neglecting them. but i’m trying real hard to be on the mend (like starting tms in august and everything) so if you would like to support me through either of those channels i would really appreciate it.

i’m hoping creating a routine for myself and having posting on those be part of my routine will help me get back to a sense of normalcy.

i think you’re all very brave and very sexy and i appreciate the love and support so, so much. 💕

#capitalism sucks #and so does mental illness #why is trying my best so hard

[shutinthenutouse]

#Politics #fascist #GOP #right wing terrorism #right wing extremism #gop fascists #christofascists #evangelicals #conservative christians #white supremacists #maga #republicans #stupid people #Republicans are Fascist #Vote Blue #Get Out The Vote #Vote Democratic #Capitalism sucks #Billionaires suck #tax the rich #tax the church #eat the rich #support unions #fuck capitalism #fuck the billionaires #fuck the corporations

[alpaca-clouds]

How Capitalism turned AI into something bad

AI "Art" sucks. AI "writing" sucks. Chat GPT sucks. All those fancy versions of "fancy predictive text" and "fancy predictive image generation" actually do suck a lot. Because they are bad at what they do - and they take jobs away from people, who would actually be good at them.

But at the same time I am also thinking about what kind of fucking dystopia we live in, that this had to turn out that way.

You know... I am an autistic guy, who has studied computer science for quite a while now. I have read a lot of papers and essays in my day about the development of AI and deep learning and what not. And I can tell you: There is stuff that AI is really good and helpful for.

Currently I am working a lot with the evaluation of satellite imagery and I can tell you: AI is making my job a ton easier. Sure, I could do that stuff manually, but it would be very boring and mind numbing. So, yeah, preprocessing the images with AI so that I just gotta look over the results the AI put out and confirm them? Much easier. Even though at times it means that my workday looks like this: I get to work, start the process on 50GB worth of satellite data, and then go look at tumblr for the rest of the day or do university stuff.

But the thing is that... You know. Creative stuff is actually not boring, manial stuff where folks are happy to have the work taken off their hands. Creative work is among those jobs that a lot of people find fulfilling. But from the feeling of fulfillment you cannot eat. But now AI is being used to push down the money folks in creative jobs can make.

I think movie and TV writing is a great example. When AI puts out a script, that script is barely sensible. Yet, the folks who actually make something useful out of it get paid less than they would, if they did it on their own.

Sure, in the US the WGA made it clear that they would not work with studios doing something like that - but the US is not the whole world. And in other countries it will definitely happen.

And that... kinda sucks.

And of course even outside of creative fields... There is definitely jobs that are going to get replaced by automation and artificial intelligence.

The irony is that once upon a time folks like Keynes were like: "OMG, we will get there one day and it is going to be great, because a machine is going to do your work, and you are gonna get paid for it." But the reality obviously is that: "A machine is going to do the work and the CEO is going to get an even bigger bonus, while you sleep on the streets, where police will then violate you for being homeless."

You know, looking at this from the point of view of Solarpunk: I absolutely think that there is a place in a Solarpunk future for AI. Even for some creative AI. But all under the assumption that first we are going to erradicate fucking capitalism. Because this does not work together with capitalism. We need to get rid of capitalism first. And no, I do not know how to start.

#artificial intelligence #fuck ai art #fuck ai writing #fuck chatgpt #fuck midjourney #fuck capitalism #anti capitalism #solarpunk #lunarpunk #capitalism sucks #late stage capitalism

[nombinary-snax]

King Charles should get the same healthcare that's available to the poorest citizen of his nation. And the citizens of his nation should be entitled to the same standard and quality of healthcare that he will receive.

#king charles iii #King Charles #Capitalism sucks #It should suck for everyone

[alethianightsong]

I watched Robots(2005) a lot as a kid so it's no wonder I grew up to be anti-capitalist

The movie's 18 years old so if you haven't seen it, go do so. Anyway, for context, the film takes place in a world where robots are the dominant species. When your body breaks down, you can buy spare parts to fix yourself, effectively becoming immortal(but that's not important). What's important is that their society originally didn't throw people away for breaking down(getting older). By the time our hero enters the picture, an evil CEO has stopped the production of spare parts to make upgrades. These upgrades are made from junk and scrapped robots, or robots who couldn't find spare parts and basically died or were dying. Upgrades completely replace your body, making you monochrome and uniform; they're also expensive. It's subtle but all the poor robots are colorful while the rich ones are usually shades of gray and black with some brown thrown in. The poor robots also come in various shapes and sizes, with some being less humanoid in design but still having personality. The main character (voiced by Ewan McGregor) is an inventor and by extension, a robo-doctor, giving out free healthcare until he realizes he needs to overhaul the system cuz he can't fix everybody in a reasonable amount of time.

TLDR: To summarize the anti-capitalist themes of the movie ROBOTS (2005), the Robot world is post-scarcity but scarcity was artificially created for money's sake. Our hero has to defeat an evil CEO so people can come before profits once again.

Also, the main character grew up watching a TV show that showed off new inventions and how they helped society (this inspires him to invent). By the time, he's an adult, no new inventions are being introduced cuz-- surprise!-- Capitalism doesn't inspire innovation, it stifles innovation cuz once it finds a money-making mine, it digs and digs until it runs out; then and only then does it care to look for innovation.

#innovation #capitalism #anti capitalism #capitalism sucks #healthcare #robots #robots 2005 #rodney copperbottom #ewan mcgregor #2000s #2000s era #2000s nostalgia #nostalgia #steampunk vibes #clockpunk vibes #definitely gear punk #gearpunk #revolution #rich vs poor #poverty #post scarcity #ceo #inventor #fuck ceos

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

So I did an important, but with some frustrating strings attached and at a financial cost.

I asked for accommodations at work.

It is day six. I am brand new. But I guess I’ve made enough of a good impression because they were willing to ask questions and discuss.

We have sensory processing disorder (auDHD). They used to play music on a Bluetooth speaker, but since then they now don’t let us have music after we open (10:45a).

So the day before yesterday I decided fuck it and had an earbud in the whole shift. It made me functional, kept us grounded, and actually made me faster and more effective. No major burns, only dropped one thing instead of multiple...overall a better shift.

The shift lead that day just...didn’t care, because I was working & I was getting faster & more effective as the day went on.

I came in to work today already overstimmed, so I used an earbud again.

(I intentionally used an earbud in our right ear, which has about 10% hearing remaining after trauma (both blasted music and physical-harm trauma). I can’t really hear out of it anyway. And these are entirely wireless (Bluetooth), small earbuds, so not super obvious and customers won’t notice (and didn’t notice yesterday). It’s not a matter of the earbud being too obvious or physically dangerous.)

But this shift lead told me to take my earbud out, and that I wasn’t allowed to have music due to safety concerns.

I work in a kitchen on a hot grill, and need to hear safety announcements (hot, cold, corner, behind you, etc.) as well as line alerts (for food when they run low/out). I understand that I need to hear that, & it could be a safety concern for some people. But I noticed yesterday I heard them better and processed way easier with music. So I protested, told her I worked better with it, but she kept arguing & telling me to take it out.

I pulled her into the back so I could hear better (quieter) and think/talk easier, and explained that it’s for a disability (not ‘just because’), and that when I had it yesterday, music made me way more effective and faster—and also able to process better what people said to me, which improves my safety. I also admitted I was already overstimmed and don’t think I can work today without it.

She said they don’t allow earbuds/headphones due to safety concerns, but also said she’d talk to higher-up managers (inbetween/corporate) about making an exception, which...is more than I expected after having to argue for 10mins.

She checked the handbook but it said nothing, so she told me to sit out in the lobby and that she’d let our lower tier/closest corporate person call her back to discuss more. Luckily she didn’t make me clock out at this point, so I just sat down to wait.

15mins later she came back and said that the higher ups talked to their disability advocate (¿they have one??) and agreed to send me the paperwork to accommodate music on the line.

But that also means I was sent home and I can’t work the rest of this week...cutting me down to 13½ hours instead of 28¾, making this paycheck around 31½ hours instead of 47 total (I don’t get a full 2 week paycheck yet because pay period is next Friday and I just started). That cuts my paycheck by ~$250, when I’m already struggling to get by and desperately need to replace multiple things, feed myself, and feed my cat...and pay rent too.

I’ll give them a little credit: this is fast food, and this is the first job who even escalated questions and decided to send me paperwork to allow an accommodation, let alone on day 6.

But I am so stressed about the money loss and the process of getting this done.

However,,, this is also the first time I got the courage to ask for an exception/accommodation of any kind. Normally I let myself suffer and let my performance tank until they inevitably fire me or cut my hours to make me quit. So I did a good this time. It just...sucks that it basically has consequences. I’m not allowed to work until the paperwork is filed and approved.

This is all a part of the journey I guess. I finally have the self-respect to ask. But that also means waiting to be sent paperwork and to hear back whether they’re gonna make an exception or not (AKA whether I’m gonna collapse out of this job in 3 to 6 months or not, because this accommodation would make or break my ability to sustain/maintain working fast food again).

I am disabled. This body is disabled. I can’t really accommodate the physical disabilities as well (struggling to stand for long periods of time / chronic pain), but if I can at least accommodate the mental ones...that’s something.

(before anyone asks, explicitly stating these— referenced & implied disabilities here: D.I.D., ADHD + bipolar, autism, sensory processing disorder, POTS, & chronic pain // disabilities I’m asking for accommodations for: ADHD/autism (sensory processing delays/overstim), & probably also PTSD because I already had to tell them yesterday about that (not sure about D.I.D. yet; bipolar is medicated; physical stuff is nigh impossible in fast food).)

(I won’t/can’t say which corporation I now work for; I don’t want to get in trouble for posting about them on social media or have them accuse me of acting as a spokesperson when I’m not. Too risky.)

~Nico

#~Nico #personal #vent #personal vent #disability #disabilities #accommodation #work accommodation #work #job #capitalism #capitalism sucks #maybe the customer isn't always right?? #wild concept #healing #healing from trauma #neurodivergent #actually adhd #did system #actually autistic

[hermitcraft-shifter]

I forgot to set my alarm for this stream, so I'm watching from the beginning, but Joe (and gang) was talking about their journey from when they started content creation and now. They were talking about their first editing programs and first videos, and then Joe started talking about how content creation wasn't seen as a viable job at the time; more of a 'hobbyist' thing, in their words, and that it was practically impossible to see someone creating content as a serious job.

Joe talks about how people don't understand the shift from the hobbyist to viable job and says something like this: "Right now, anything worth doing is worth overdoing, but back then, anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. That's why I have my craft streams with Cleo; to show that it's ok to just get yourself out there."

Things have changed a lot since 2008, but it's definitely nice to be able to sustain yourself on something you love.

#hermitblr #hermitcraft #joe hills #joehillssays #joehills #capitalism sucks #but were not its bitch #weve made progress #times change man #times change

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

The thing about crafts is you can make things even when nobody else sees the point and I think that's beautiful.

My mom's sheets got ripped and she could have just bought new ones, but she likes to sew and decided to Frankenstein some sheets together instead. Now she has frankensheets she's proud of despite the absurdity of having done that when she didn't need to.

I recently learned to crochet, and lately put those skills to use making an accidentally-lopsided, weird, ugly mushroom as a gift for a friend. It filled us both with delight. Now I want to learn to embroider because the idea of embroidering eggs and bacon on a beanie has consumed me. That would be so random and funny.

I feel like lately people are always encouraged to do crafts in order to sell them, always "putting their time to good use" by doing something that will bring them profit. I hate that 😕 like power to you if you want to do that, I think it's great, but the minute I crocheted my first thing, someone was like "that looks great! You could sell it!" And I was like 😐 nice but I did this for fun though. Why is everything about money at the first opportunity?

Maybe that's why I love seeing people put their skills to use making something that others may or may not see the point of, that could have been cheaper to buy, that are weird or self defeating or whatever, just because they wanted to do it. Maybe you could sell that stuff, but it's clear that's not why you're doing it. You're doing it because it makes you happy.

Never change, craft people. I want to be just like you.

#arts and crafts #crafts #sewing #crochet #embroidery #capitalism sucks #make pointless things #make ugly things #make pointless things club