#blamecapitalism — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116413091256849533

It fills me with joy every time I see a government bail out private industry because the private industry lacks the willingness, capability or capacity to deliver the service that the government sold it*.

*it is a failure on two levels: capitalism and public policy both of which prioritise profit over investment, security and infrastructure.

#auspol #Capitalism #blamecapitalism #capturedgovernment #governmentcapture

Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/17/dont-blame-women-for-mens-loneliness-blame-capitalism/

#blameCapitalism

@aral I am feeling a bit caught out by it all, I have to admit. Sad times. #BlameCapitalism #ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings

@neil It used to be cool when it was a nerdy thing. OKCupid did fun blog posts at one point. Eventually it got enshittified, obvs. #BlameCapitalism

@ChrisMayLA6 Isn't this common to almost all first-world countries now? #BlameCapitalism

#Capitalism USA Franchise
#BlameCapitalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #subsidies

@wdlindsy

Fight the Billionaire Mind Virus !
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/28/fight-the-billionaire-mind-virus/

#BlameCapitalism #billionaires #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/ai-and-our-technological-future/104305614

#ai #techworkers #BlameCapitalism

(Thanks Durango Worker )

#BlameCapitalism #stolenwages #RichPeoplesYachtMoney
#labormovement #organize #solidarity
#unions

@cyu

https://abahlali.org/node/18439/

#Abahlali #austerity #blameCapitalism

Burn plastic for fuel: what could possibly go wrong ? https://theconversation.com/households-are-burning-plastic-waste-as-fuel-for-cooking-and-heating-in-slums-the-world-over-250265

Audio
https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-fell-in-love-with-plastic-without-thinking-through-the-consequences-podcast-246897

#BlameCapitalism #Dioxin #FossilFuels
#Plastic #pollution #poverty

“They drive Mercedes Benz and Porsches*
Live Rolls Royce gilt-edged lives
You can tell the affluent effluent
By the status symbols that they drive “
(1988 - in 2025 “rich shits” in Teslas)

https://www.kevcarmody.com.au/pillars-of-society

#richpeoplesyachtmoney #blameCapitalism

@MnlyBeach

“Conservative Civilisation” aka Carry on #stolenwages ? (Abbott - Costello -Credlin-Deeming Murdoch ad nauseum)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/12/bridget-mckenzie-moira-deeming-and-key-news-corp-figures-to-attend-jordan-petersons-civilisation-conference

#wagetheft #richpeoplesyachtmoney #profits #BlameCapitalism

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/10/elon_musk_doge_south_africa_apartheid

#apartheid #BlameCapitalism #DOGE #PayPal #Project2025 RichPeoplesYachtMoney #SouthAfrica

Bossy Boots Billionaire Bezos

#DelayDenyDepose

https://jacobin.com/2025/02/amazon-bezos-unitedhealth-trump-sec

(About https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend )

#Amazon #UnitedHealth

Also Chemicals Capitalists Deregulated what could possibly go wrong, go wrong go go go ?

https://www.levernews.com/chemical-companies-ask-trumps-epa-to-hide-potential-disasters/

#BlameCapitalism #OSHA #EPA #HealthAndSafety #Environment #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

@pluralistic

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge

#BlameCapitalism #DOGE #Enshittification #Grifters #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

Plutes gunna Plute
(A #plutocrat is a plute)

“Tonight I am going to speak on the #classstruggle and I am going to make it so plain that even a lawyer can understand it."- Bill Haywood #IWW

#SurplusValue is #unpaidlabor

#Profits = #wagetheft.

Capitalists - capos - have dollars they didn't work for, because the exploited work for dollars they do not get.

#BlameCapitalism #workingpoor #richpeoplesyachtmoney

2025 (increase production, distribution and consumption of commodities to increase profits)
https://illogicalmachine.substack.com/p/more-faster-never-enough?

#automation #Amazon #BlameCapitalism #enshittification #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #SpeedUp
#ZuckerMuskian #ai

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jay_Gould

Evolution of the Robber Baron’s quote https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/29/hire-half/

#BlameCapitalism #JayGould #RoberBarons #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #Quotes

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/28/artificial-intelligence-even-the-name-doesnt-compute/

#ai #BlameCapitalism #enshittification #richPeoplesYachtMoney #SiliconValley #TechnoFascism #ZuckerMuskian

https://theconversation.com/the-silicon-valley-venture-capitalists-who-want-to-move-fast-and-break-things-in-the-defence-industry-245778

#ai #BlameCapitalism #enshittification #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

@leftylabourtech

UK “Prime Minion”
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/autocrats-of-trade/#dingo-babysitter

(Note: Sir Keir Starmer was way back when in 1980s McLibel/Spycops era a “progressive lawyer” now in 2025 Labour Party Leader and self-confessed “Prime Minister” of UK Inc. )

#Amazon #Bezos #Billionaires #BlameCapitalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

BRUT-alist “Late Stage Capitalism” ?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/24/woolworths-selling-downsized-brut-deodorant-for-more-than-double-unit-cost-of-old-product

#shrinkflation #blamecapitalism #woolworths #supermarkets #Brutalist

“Takers Not Makers: How Billionaires profit while billions struggle. https://www.oxfam.org.au/2025/01/takers-not-makers-how-billionaires-profit-while-billions-struggle/

Australia's 47 billionaires make an average $67,000 an hour, according to the report — a figure 1,300 times higher than that of the average Australian worker.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-20/oxfam-calls-for-australias-richest-to-pay-more-tax/104821814

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/20/wealth-of-worlds-billionaires-grew-by-2tn-in-2024-report-finds

#blameCapitalism #billionaires #Davos #WEF
#richpeoplesyachtmoney #taxtheRich
#Oxfam

@DrALJONES

#Plutocracy of the billionaires, for the billionaires by the billionaires.

https://www.citizen.org/article/corporations-and-billionaires-funnel-millions-into-trump-inauguration-committee/

Aka Dollarocracy? The richest must be the smartest; Monarch like are born/made to rule through their “divine wealth”
The wealthiest are beyond the laws applied only to the lower orders, expendable minions who can be sacrificed for the Enterprise/Empire.

“Captains of Industry, Developers, Exploiters, Magnates, Plunderers, Tycoons”

#BlameCapitalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses." Utah Phillips on Loafer’s Glory A hobo jungle of the mind radio show.

Shame & name Big Oil’s Big Criminals ?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-oil-climate-criminals

“Reinsurance” is not reassurance?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-wildfire-insurance

#california #insurance #wildfires #climatecisis #fossilfuels #BlameCapitalism #richPeoplesYachtMoney

(Note Comments are interesting about double the dole during covid era etc.)

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/11/australian-food-charities-expensive-foodbank-falling-donations-unprecedented-demand

#BlameCapitalism #costoflivingcrisis #foodbank #NeoLiberalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #supermarkets #DoubletheDole #unwaged #unemployed
#workingpoor

@CrimethInc

Capitalists are always keen to “reduce the cost of labor”

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters

#losangeles #2025 #wildfires #firefighters #incarceratedworkers #BlameCapitalism
#climateCrisis

Affluent Effluent Quotidian (Rich Shit’s Daily) updates https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#618ddd2c3d78

#BlameCapitalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

@VeroniqueB99

Note; Walton Family Seven members combined wealth is $404.3 BILLION #WalMart

Source: Forbes Facts & Figures 2024 https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2024/04/02/forbes-38th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures-2024/

#BlameCapitalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

Affluent Effluent of 2024
1. Elon Musk of #Tesla/X and SpaceX with $428.
2. Jeff Bezos of #Amazon $235.2
3. Larry Ellison of #Oracle $210.5
4. Mark Zuckerberg of #Meta $204.4
5. Larry Page of #Google $157.6

Dynasty
+ Walton Family Seven members combo $404.3 #WalMart
+ Mars Family Six members combo $130.4
+ Koch Family Two members combo $121.1 billion.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/08/349313/

Source: Forbes Facts & Figures
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2024/04/02/forbes-38th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures-2024/

#BlameCapitalism #ClassWar #RicPeoplesYachtMoney

2024 Shkreli Awards top ten list of the worst examples of #profiteering and dysfunction in #healthcare, named for the infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.

https://lowninstitute.org/projects/2024-shkreli-awards/

Report by G
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering

#ShkreliAwards #healthinsurance #privatisation #blameCapitalism #MartinShkreli