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7 months agoWho’s paying him? Seriously:
- If nobody is, then we got our value’s worth.
- If someone is, then we should look at who, how much, and why.
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There are over 300k lemmy users, so that would be an average of 300. You can find plenty of instances with between 100 and 1000 users.
What was first, the eggplant or the chickenplant?.. 😛
Lemmy is 1000+ different instances, feel free to find yours.
Kids need to grow strong so they can be brainwashed into doing the bidding of the ruling class.
The elderly are too set in their own ways to be brainwashed efficiently, and too weak to get exploited efficiently anyways.
8·1 year agoUS: “people are too lazy and don’t want to work”
Also the US: “let’s hire some children who don’t know any better”
Agreed. I’d only add that until we switch to a full post-scarcity world, a system that does the opposite, that tries to eliminate all private ownership, also causes that same fear of precarity, which also leads to greed.
As long as scarcity exists, a system trying to minimize greed requires a tough balance between providing enough to meet basic needs, but at the same time not stifling people’s sense of safety derived from ownership.
Capitalism is the ideology that defends capital as the main desirable quality in society.
Greed is a consequence of the desire for ownership, which is part of human nature.
Capitalism is the exaltation of that greed… and no, we should not have any system that blindly defends a single aspect of life.
Life is full of nuance, no single aspect should rule it all; sometimes ownership is good (like my pants), sometimes sharing is good (like riding on a bus), sometimes defending a life is good (like preventing a murder), sometimes ending a life is good (like euthanasia)… and so on.
Just explained it, step by step.
If you still don’t see it, then no offense, but we’re coming into “what weights more, a pound of rocks or a pound of feathers” territory, which I don’t think I can explain through here.
No, it’s not correct in any way:
“Capitalism exists by selling the value you produce for less than your labor costs.”
- you produce the value
- capitalism pays your labor costs for the value
- capitalism sells the value for… more, never less
I had that happen to me, $0.02 overdraft + $30 overdraft fee… like WTF. Since then I’ve found a bank where I can block the overdraft “feature”, it’s the only account I ever give for payments, and only if there is no alternative.
Building upon that… I use a virtual prepaid credit card. I know how much the bills should be, keep slightly more than that on the card, and I can block it with a single click from the bank’s mobile app when I expect no bills.
Source?
(just saying, because we used CRTs in 1993, and those look like LCDs… 👽)
But could he grab them by the… nevermind, if he can buy a horse, he can do anything.
And if you look long enough in the right places, you can also pay them peanuts… or for them 😒
42·1 year agoFML… that is indeed the fascist salute.
I know de-nazification was half-assed; I lived in Italy, now I live in Spain, and man, 45 years after the fascist regime was “gone”, there are still those opposing the removal of some fascist symbols. They used to argue that “it’s too soon”, now they’re arguing “it’s too late, let them be”, while there are still people killed by the dictature laying unidentified in some ditch or another.
Guess we’ll have to live and see where it all goes.
If we go far enough up the command chain, there are fallout shelters and
slavessubordinates to rule over.But you’re right, chemical and biological are likely lower on the “let’s fuck every treaty” scale.
Snowden is wrong though, there are two reasons:
The AI that ends up enslaving humanity, will start by convincing the people in charge of turning it off, that it would be a really bad idea to turn it off.