Please look up “wealth inequality over time”, or watch this video on the topic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EdqxBNgnmxU
Wealth directly represents control over resources and ownership of the economy. The more wealth you have, the more power you have (under capitalism) so massive disparities in wealth are also massive disparities of power
Capitalism is just a machine, a system,
Yeah, a machine that produces extreme wealth disparity that the 1% then use to buy politicians, all our media, and fund neo-fascist groups that want to destroy democracy.
Capitalism is also a machine poisoned the entire US with a very nasty neurotoxin known to greatly reduce intelligence and increase violence. And for what? To sell more cars. Capitalists put a nasty neurotoxin in gasoline just to make a quick buck.
Capitalism is also a machine that is destroying the planet and driving a mass extinction event that could potentially wipe out humanity.
Which brand? I tried a few cheaper BT headphones and they were terrible. Anker is the cheapest I have tried that has good quality
Copyright laws are sort of stupid. People shouldn’t be forced to make inferior products just because someone else beat them to an idea. At the very worse, they should just share 10% of the profits with the original designer and then let everyone copy any designs they want
DeepSeek is completely free and open source, why do you want it to fail?
I don’t understand how we have such an obsession with Tiananmen square but no one talks about the Athens Polytech massacre where Greek tanks crushed 40 college students to death. The Chinese tanks stopped for the man in the photo! So we just ignore the atrocities of other capitalist nations and hyperfixate on the failings of any country that tries to move away from capitalism???
The EU would have ally itself with China. It is a difficult choice, you have a fascist oligarchy who funded Israel’s genocide on one hand (US) vs a communist country that built 40000km of HSR, countless solar panels, the most affordable electric cars in the world, and now a ton of nuclear power plants. I can’t tell which country is worse 🙃
So, basically the military industrial complex (which liberals support!) but with less genocide? Don’t get me wrong, I hate Trump and Republicans are clearly the greater evil, but liberals have helped conservatives funnel trillion of dollars in public assets to the 1% for decades. It was under Bill Clinton that the internet, which was publically funded and publicly built, was given to the 1%. So to me, this is just more of the same: capitalist politicians stealing from us to make the 1% wealthier.
True, liberals are the lesser evil compared to neocons and fascists.
But the top 100 richest billionaires grew their wealth by 63% under Biden so liberalism still inevitably leads to extreme wealth disparities that erode democracy until neo-feudalistic oligarchy is all that will remain
Liberals don’t care. Socialists / progressives do care. Bernie and AOC have consistently fought to expand class consciousness and to fight against the growing wealth disparity
If we turned SpaceX into a worker’s co-op then I would also be fine with it, but I don’t think replacing Elon with another billionaire would help anything. I truly believe nearly every single billionaire on earth is morally bankrupt and far too detached from reality. The best case scenario for the continuation of billionaires is that live like evil dragons hoarding all their wealth while the planet burns… But far too often, billionaires use their wealth to erode democracy and to ratchet the world towards fascism.
If we truly want to save our world then billionaires need to be abolished, capitalism needs to be converted into market socialism, and we need to make education and improving democracy our #1 priorities so that we can actually build functioning science driven governments that are willing to fight for data proven policies
I have tried using ReVanced a few times when NewPipe was down, but it never worked for me. Maybe I’ll try it again.
Our bodies typically cease to function around 80, so yes. We will all be dead much sooner than we would like
Do you ever feel like aging is socially isolating? When I was 18 I could chat with literally anyone and it was almost always well received. But the older I get, the more socially isolated I am starting to feel. It feels like younger people want nothing to do with people older than them, even at places like climbing gyms… Which I understand, but it still makes me a little sad. I am not expecting to be good friends with any of them, but being able to chat and be friendly with other adults makes life less depressing.
I think the lack of shared culture is also making life far more socially isolating. When I meet people my own age at a social event, it is becoming harder and harder to chat with them. I don’t watch sports, I don’t keep up with the latest movies, and I hate consumerism. My dream is to live in a car free community with a social democracy. I love learning, urbanism and socialism. But there is scarcely anyone my age in any of the local socialist organizations…
There are studies that show that our brains like to automate routines and habits. For example, when I had a job that was 1 hour away from where I lived, at first that hour of driving felt like an eternity, but after a year of making that drive I would start to day dream and then suddenly I would be there without much memory of driving.
The US oligarchs skim off the top of our military spending as well and every year it gets worse and worse. There are so many US soldiers living on food stamps while simultaneously their positions keep getting cut .
Give it time. When, not if, when Trump gives billions to fund Israel’s genocide then people will be just as furious with him as they were when Biden did it.
Xhitter is full of bots and Nazis now so you won’t see much criticism of Trump on Nazi Musk’s shitty Nazi platform.
I deleted my Instagram and I am about to delete my FB account. The oligarchs can go fuck themselves.
I can barely speak two languages. I tried to learn some Mandarin but apparently I am tone deaf because I cannot hear or get the tones right when I practice.
I think the critical difference is that communism has never had a chance to be tried without capitalist countries attacking them. Capitalist Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and then the Capitalist USA forced the USSR into an economic cold war. Then the US bombed the shit out of socialist countries for 50 years. Communist China was threatened with a economic cold war if they didn’t join the “free market”.
But we have tried capitalism for 300 years and it produces horrible atrocities: leaded gasoline, mass starvation in 3rd world countries, child sweat shops, slavery, sex trafficking, destroying the planet for profit, billionaire oligarchs destroying democracy, etc