Tag capitalism

Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.

Thought for the day: Billionaires are a symptom of poverty. (Paraphrasing Iain Banks on money, but more specific to our times because we still need some way to allocate scarce resources, just: not like that.)

"Billionaires are a symptom of poverty." Every once in a while I'm reminded that my "wasting time" on this site is not wasting time, because it's how I can incredible ideas or articulations like this.

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I started reading the newspapers early in life, mostly during mealtimes (a bad habit I picked up from my father). Eventually I started reading the business sections as well. One of things that always …

MillerKnoll says a video of CEO Andi Owen telling employees to stop "thinking about what you’re going to do if you don’t get a bonus" was taken "out of context."

Lately it feels like we’ve transitioned from late capitalism to full on after-hours capitalism. Eerie vibes. No rules or regulations to speak of. Aggressive weirdos with power making everyone uncomfortable.

Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman)Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:21 +0000

What do Docker, GitLab, and Red Hat have in common? Aside from various levels of participation in open source, they’ve all been punching bags over the past few years for non-paying users angr…

https://twitter.com/CarolSaysThings/status/1549316951272554496

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Carol 🌻 (@CarolSaysThings)Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:55 +0000

You ever look up in wonder at the infinite expanse of the night sky and think “I would like to traffic slaves there”

James Felton (@JimMFelton)Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:26 +0000

Si admira a Elon Musk o a cualquier otro millonario. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Charlie Joe (@elperroeplaya)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:30 +0000

If Elon Musk lost 99.9% of his net worth, he would still have $250 million to his name.

Quite Interesting (@qikipedia)Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:00 +0000

My only Netflix stock take is that maybe it isn't actually smart to base our entire financial system on the belief that everything needs to grow constantly forever to have any value.

Yell in a War (@jelenawoehr)Wed, 20 Apr 2022 23:35 +0000

In 2020 @JeffBezos made $8 million an hour. Every hour. @elonmusk? He made $18 million an hour. Every hour. The idea philanthropy is the answer when you make that much money is absurd. You can’t give it away quickly enough. The ultra rich should a pay a *lot* more tax.

Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani)Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:11 +0000

this is literally just capitalists admitting they don’t support a free labor market lmao

Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy)Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:20 +0000

I think billionaires should pay throttlingly burdensome taxes, not to improve society, but because it makes them sad.

Alasdair Beckett-King (@MisterABK)Sat, 09 Apr 2022 08:52 +0000

Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein)Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:41 +0000

Seems as appropriate as ever

🇺🇦 Anthony, of course 💉💉💉 (@ofcAnthony)Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:14 GMT

Mondays are just capitalism's way of punishing us for the weekend.

Yechiel (@yechielk)Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1505328029740019718

Mitchy (@MouthyMitch)Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:41 GMT

just eat lentils, nobody said this would be fun

jordan (@JordanUhl)Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:39 GMT

They think we don't notice! #UnionsForAll

Airport Workers United (@GoodAirports)Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:43 GMT

Casual reminder that a huge reason that they don't want you to work from home anymore is because in terms of capitalism, it makes the dozens of skyscrapers and office buildings they built obsolete, impractical, unprofitable, and a generally bad financial investment.

Tony Chavez (@blacknexus)Sun, 06 Mar 2022 15:19 GMT

Cancelling a subscription in protest is the only way consumers can make their voices heard. It's not "cancel culture". It's called capitalism. The very thing most of these right-wing podcasters advocate for. And guess what, the pressure is working.

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Spotify is more confused about Joe Rogan than ever trib.al/piG3Lpk

The Verge (@verge)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:11 GMT

Kieran McHugh (@kieranmch)Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:45 GMT

When you see articles claiming Covid is affecting people in ways no one could have predicted, please remember *all of this* was predicted, but we listened to economists & corporations instead.

Laura Miers (@LauraMiers)Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:40 GMT

I think it rules that there are like 6 companies total now

50 tweet thread about the PBS DragonTales PsyOp (@Boringstein)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:46 GMT

$10,000 is a lot of money, right? If you made $10,000 every day since 1776, you still wouldn't have $1 billion today. Stop defending modern day robber barons.

Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:58 GMT

Why is it always "McDonald's workers don't deserve to be paid as much as paramedics," and never "CEOs don't deserve to be paid three thousand times more than paramedics"?

Ricky (@RickyDHale)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:29 GMT