#capitalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #capitalism, aggregated by home.social.
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If you pay someone to go door to door, they will perform worse then if you had instead told them it was for a good cause.
Capitalism is not a system of increasing productivity.
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If you pay someone to go door to door, they will perform worse then if you had instead told them it was for a good cause.
Capitalism is not a system of increasing productivity.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/117077724485796585
This is #capitalism. There is no other kind. Capitalism as a political-economic system is inherently narcissistic because it prioritizes individual greed over anyone else's well-being. Me-Me-Me, right now. Capitalism could well have been designed by 3-year-olds.
"Big conglomerates and private equity were buying up “trusted brands and riding that reputation out until it was a husk of what it was”.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/117077724485796585
This is #capitalism. There is no other kind. Capitalism as a political-economic system is inherently narcissistic because it prioritizes individual greed over anyone else's well-being. Me-Me-Me, right now. Capitalism could well have been designed by 3-year-olds.
"Big conglomerates and private equity were buying up “trusted brands and riding that reputation out until it was a husk of what it was”.
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Unbelievable! Recent amputee was discharged to a shelter in North Bay as hospital copes with its lack of available beds.
Under Doug Ford, Ontario the country’s richest province has the fewest hospital beds and staff per capita in Canada.
#onpoli #DougFord #healthcare #neoliberalism #privatization #Capitalism
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/recent-amputee-moved-to-low-barrier-shelter-by-nbrhc-12527241 -
Unbelievable! Recent amputee was discharged to a shelter in North Bay as hospital copes with its lack of available beds.
Under Doug Ford, Ontario the country’s richest province has the fewest hospital beds and staff per capita in Canada.
#onpoli #DougFord #healthcare #neoliberalism #privatization #Capitalism
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/recent-amputee-moved-to-low-barrier-shelter-by-nbrhc-12527241 -
Already in the 1920s there was clear proof linking asbestos to lung scarring, and definitive proof tying it to cancer emerged in the 1950s.
Society needs strong government regulations to stop capitalists making a profit from killing us.
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Already in the 1920s there was clear proof linking asbestos to lung scarring, and definitive proof tying it to cancer emerged in the 1950s.
Society needs strong government regulations to stop capitalists making a profit from killing us.
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CHiP "Reverse mortgages" in Canada are vulture capitalism at its worst. They're actually high-interest loans that you're not allowed to repay until you sell your home, at which point — thanks to interest compounding — there might not be much equity left over to cover costs if/when you move to assisted living or long-term care.
And as people age, executive function may decline, so some elderly people will treat the money they borrow as a windfall rather than a loan, and start splurging on things they otherwise wouldn't buy (or need), instead of saving the money to live on. 😥
Shame on celebrity spokespeople like Peter Mansbridge, Kurt Browning, and Pattie Lovett-Reid, who apparently have no scruples about profiting from the exploitation by endorsing it for $$$.
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CHiP "Reverse mortgages" in Canada are vulture capitalism at its worst. They're actually high-interest loans that you're not allowed to repay until you sell your home, at which point — thanks to interest compounding — there might not be much equity left over to cover costs if/when you move to assisted living or long-term care.
And as people age, executive function may decline, so some elderly people will treat the money they borrow as a windfall rather than a loan, and start splurging on things they otherwise wouldn't buy (or need), instead of saving the money to live on. 😥
Shame on celebrity spokespeople like Peter Mansbridge, Kurt Browning, and Pattie Lovett-Reid, who apparently have no scruples about profiting from the exploitation by endorsing it for $$$.
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Bitchy Bitey Hellion Ideas:
1) Win lotto or become indie
2) Apply for lots of jobs
3) Reply to every automated rejection (cc CEO) with "go fk urself" -
Bitchy Bitey Hellion Ideas:
1) Win lotto or become indie
2) Apply for lots of jobs
3) Reply to every automated rejection (cc CEO) with "go fk urself" -
💸 Milliardaires et finance de l’ombre : l’accumulation jusqu’à l’extrême
Ugo Palheta, sociologue au Cresppa (CNRS), est intervenu à une table ronde du Festival Mediapart du 6 juin dernier, animée par le journaliste Mathias Thépot.
Aux côtés de l’expert fiscaliste Quentin Parrinello et de la députée et rapporteuse parlementaire Aurélie Trouvé, ils débattent sur l’accumulation massive des richesses par des milliardaires grâce à la prédation des fonds spéculatifs sur l’économie. En quête de toujours plus de pouvoir et pour pérenniser leurs privilèges, ces ultra-riches tissent des liens dangereux avec les mouvements fascistes …
🎥 Découvrez la vidéo du débat (50 min) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Zhb4Fjkw8
@cnrs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @sociology @the_conversation_fr @academia @sibyllegollac @mediapart @mathiasthepot.bsky.social
#research #socialsciences #Cresppa #France #Europe #Finance #EatTheRich #Politics #Capitalism #Fascism #Sociodon #Histodons
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💸 Milliardaires et finance de l’ombre : l’accumulation jusqu’à l’extrême
Ugo Palheta, sociologue au Cresppa (CNRS), est intervenu à une table ronde du Festival Mediapart du 6 juin dernier, animée par le journaliste Mathias Thépot.
Aux côtés de l’expert fiscaliste Quentin Parrinello et de la députée et rapporteuse parlementaire Aurélie Trouvé, ils débattent sur l’accumulation massive des richesses par des milliardaires grâce à la prédation des fonds spéculatifs sur l’économie. En quête de toujours plus de pouvoir et pour pérenniser leurs privilèges, ces ultra-riches tissent des liens dangereux avec les mouvements fascistes …
🎥 Découvrez la vidéo du débat (50 min) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Zhb4Fjkw8
@cnrs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @sociology @the_conversation_fr @academia @sibyllegollac @mediapart @mathiasthepot.bsky.social
#research #socialsciences #Cresppa #France #Europe #Finance #EatTheRich #Politics #Capitalism #Fascism #Sociodon #Histodons
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@GeraldKutney Climate denial is a symptom. The real cause is the greed of the wealthy. #Climate #Capitalism
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@GeraldKutney Climate denial is a symptom. The real cause is the greed of the wealthy. #Climate #Capitalism
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Why can’t capitalists be capitalist the way the Amish are Amish, on some island or like in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged (which capitalists love so much), as in, peacefully, voluntarily, among themselves, without taking anyone else’s property or forcing anyone else to participate?
If capitalism is really about demand and supply and free markets, why does everyone else who has no demand and does not wish to participate in the free market, have to
Why are US-American oil companies currently invading Greenland to drill for oil? Why are capitalists colonizing Africa for copper and gold and rare earths and rubber and cocoa and coffee?
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Why can’t capitalists be capitalist the way the Amish are Amish, on some island or like in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged (which capitalists love so much), as in, peacefully, voluntarily, among themselves, without taking anyone else’s property or forcing anyone else to participate?
If capitalism is really about demand and supply and free markets, why does everyone else who has no demand and does not wish to participate in the free market, have to
Why are US-American oil companies currently invading Greenland to drill for oil? Why are capitalists colonizing Africa for copper and gold and rare earths and rubber and cocoa and coffee?
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“Andy Burnham to chair emergency Cobra meeting amid extreme heat.” And “Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis.” You know it makes sense! #Climate #Oil #Capitalism
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“Andy Burnham to chair emergency Cobra meeting amid extreme heat.” And “Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis.” You know it makes sense! #Climate #Oil #Capitalism
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New in our electronic collection:
➡️ #Kids, KidTech, and digital #capitalism: the fight for our digital futures
🔗 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596738
Uncovering the workings of the KidTech industry, this book explores how capitalism operates in digital spaces that are geared toward children and how this impacts children’s everyday lives.
#children #OpenAccess #OpenScience
#books #bookstodon #technology #economics #health #humanities -
New in our electronic collection:
➡️ #Kids, KidTech, and digital #capitalism: the fight for our digital futures
🔗 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596738
Uncovering the workings of the KidTech industry, this book explores how capitalism operates in digital spaces that are geared toward children and how this impacts children’s everyday lives.
#children #OpenAccess #OpenScience
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"Understanding you are being oppressed is not the same as liberation. That requires much more: leadership, organisation, collective will, a sense of a better alternative.
The billionaire class, therefore, make it as difficult as they can for leaders to emerge, for the public to imagine an alternative and to organise"
A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-west-is-eating-its-children -
"Understanding you are being oppressed is not the same as liberation. That requires much more: leadership, organisation, collective will, a sense of a better alternative.
The billionaire class, therefore, make it as difficult as they can for leaders to emerge, for the public to imagine an alternative and to organise"
A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-west-is-eating-its-children -
@FusionPartyAus this is a problem throughout the English-speaking world, and is destroying all our economies. The only solution is to tax capital gains on housing as income (which it is) and require that tax to be paid in full before the transfer of ownership can be registered.
That would take financial speculation out of housing, make housing MUCH cheaper for everyone, and, as you point out, release money for productive investment.
I don't like #capitalism, but if we're going to do it...
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@FusionPartyAus this is a problem throughout the English-speaking world, and is destroying all our economies. The only solution is to tax capital gains on housing as income (which it is) and require that tax to be paid in full before the transfer of ownership can be registered.
That would take financial speculation out of housing, make housing MUCH cheaper for everyone, and, as you point out, release money for productive investment.
I don't like #capitalism, but if we're going to do it...
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Re: Paramount
Yes, California should defy Ellison's bullshit.
No, it's not risk-free. But California has already lost tons of production to capitalists chasing the tax breaks and worse wages/living standard other places have offered them.
But New Mexico, a state that offered those tax incentives, is seeing a slowdown too. Because capitalists, despite what they say, are not state boosters and are not "patriots". They have no nation but their own profit and power interests. And when all they want is to be in your state NOT paying fair taxes while using their profits instead to buy politicians, you're better off without them. Let people who actually CARE about your state and your society be the ones you support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVgh3YT-mnc #Capitalism #California #Film
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Re: Paramount
Yes, California should defy Ellison's bullshit.
No, it's not risk-free. But California has already lost tons of production to capitalists chasing the tax breaks and worse wages/living standard other places have offered them.
But New Mexico, a state that offered those tax incentives, is seeing a slowdown too. Because capitalists, despite what they say, are not state boosters and are not "patriots". They have no nation but their own profit and power interests. And when all they want is to be in your state NOT paying fair taxes while using their profits instead to buy politicians, you're better off without them. Let people who actually CARE about your state and your society be the ones you support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVgh3YT-mnc #Capitalism #California #Film
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Watched
19th century #settlers move west murder, plunder, rape & steal land until #Lakota fight back.
2025 IllumiNative 2-part four-hour #documentary on life of #SittingBull & the alliance of #firstnations defeat “Indian-killer” Custer at #LittleBighorn & off the Reservation the travelling international celebrity with “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
Narrated by Mo Brings Plenty.https://www.history.com/shows/sitting-bull/season-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull#Representation_in_popular_culture
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Watched
19th century #settlers move west murder, plunder, rape & steal land until #Lakota fight back.
2025 IllumiNative 2-part four-hour #documentary on life of #SittingBull & the alliance of #firstnations defeat “Indian-killer” Custer at #LittleBighorn & off the Reservation the travelling international celebrity with “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
Narrated by Mo Brings Plenty.https://www.history.com/shows/sitting-bull/season-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull#Representation_in_popular_culture
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"How they built surveillance capitalism:
1) Big Tech stole our data
2) Sold it to other companies
3) These companies now use our data to charge us higher prices for goods & services
This is exactly why they’re building all these data centers: to surveil, track, and weaponize our own data against us.
The age of 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 is here and it’s even more dystopian than you thought." - Power to the People ☭🕊
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"How they built surveillance capitalism:
1) Big Tech stole our data
2) Sold it to other companies
3) These companies now use our data to charge us higher prices for goods & services
This is exactly why they’re building all these data centers: to surveil, track, and weaponize our own data against us.
The age of 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 is here and it’s even more dystopian than you thought." - Power to the People ☭🕊
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This week on @rootschangepodcast we talk to "witch with Wi-F", Lauren Gochè, about #housing, #privilege, and building intentionally for a future outside of #capitalism.
We explore the ripple effects of housing instability, the importance of trust and community, and practical steps for building a better world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zKXifinsPk&t=16s -
This week on @rootschangepodcast we talk to "witch with Wi-F", Lauren Gochè, about #housing, #privilege, and building intentionally for a future outside of #capitalism.
We explore the ripple effects of housing instability, the importance of trust and community, and practical steps for building a better world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zKXifinsPk&t=16s -
Content Warning: mass murder for money.
(Stuff the British Stole series 3)
#Abolition #art #booksofmastodon #Capitalism #Colonialism #quilting #slavery #Zong
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Content Warning: mass murder for money.
(Stuff the British Stole series 3)
#Abolition #art #booksofmastodon #Capitalism #Colonialism #quilting #slavery #Zong
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/117071609380787859
When I left my corporate job, I tried to convince the one co-worker to resign with me, who constantly complained to me that our boss yet again denied him the salary increase he felt he deserved.
At least that would have shown the company for mistreating its workers. It would have felt good, leaving while knowing that their exploitations fell on their toes and hurt them.
In his case, even just bluffing and pretending might have put him into the position to finally gain the promotion he wanted.
Alas humans fear uncertainty. They rather stick with disadvantageous situations they know in and out and are familiar with, than leaving into the unknown even if it's advantageous. That's also one reason for why/how abusive relationships work for as long as they work.
My colleague stayed and so it was just me who left. He didn't even want to pull off a bluff resignation. The corporation presumably lost nothing because my former colleague picked up the slack and worked even harder (without salary increase) to fill the hole I left.
I wish more workers understood this: One person leaving, no problem for the company. Two persons leaving at the same time, big problem for the company. Workers could have a much better position for bargaining if they leveraged this insight better.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/117071609380787859
When I left my corporate job, I tried to convince the one co-worker to resign with me, who constantly complained to me that our boss yet again denied him the salary increase he felt he deserved.
At least that would have shown the company for mistreating its workers. It would have felt good, leaving while knowing that their exploitations fell on their toes and hurt them.
In his case, even just bluffing and pretending might have put him into the position to finally gain the promotion he wanted.
Alas humans fear uncertainty. They rather stick with disadvantageous situations they know in and out and are familiar with, than leaving into the unknown even if it's advantageous. That's also one reason for why/how abusive relationships work for as long as they work.
My colleague stayed and so it was just me who left. He didn't even want to pull off a bluff resignation. The corporation presumably lost nothing because my former colleague picked up the slack and worked even harder (without salary increase) to fill the hole I left.
I wish more workers understood this: One person leaving, no problem for the company. Two persons leaving at the same time, big problem for the company. Workers could have a much better position for bargaining if they leveraged this insight better.
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...we are the madness #capitalism has created.
(since its #illegal2Bhomeless, shall we move into the #ocean?)
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...we are the madness #capitalism has created.
(since its #illegal2Bhomeless, shall we move into the #ocean?)
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“As we saw in Minneapolis, guard labor – be it mass surveillance, robocops or ICE chuds – is itself destabilizing. Police states make the people who live in them want to overthrow the state, requiring yet more cops, creating more partisans for tearing the whole thing down.
In theory, the orifice class could decide to stop stealing, cheating and maiming. The problem is that for every plute who realizes that the cheapest way to keep the guillotines off his lawn is to play fair, there are three more who lack the executive function to stop cheating. That means that you might as well keep on cheating, since the instability – and the guard labor bills – are coming no matter what.
In the tale of the "Tragedy of the Commons," a common pasture is grazed to dust by shepherds who each understand that if they don't graze their flock until everything is gone, some other shepherd will do so. The original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad:
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In reality, commons need not be tragic and many of our most important resources have been managed as commons for hundreds of years:
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But when it comes to the commons that is "a stable society," the orifice class is caught in an inescapable tragedy, certain of the knowledge that if they don't cheat us, the next American aristo will. Thus the demand for guard labor continues to mount…as does the demand for guillotines.”https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tragedy-of-the-commoners/
#USA #Inequality #Capitalism #PoliceState #Surveillance #Commons #TragedyOfTheCommons