2025-10-30 17:22:54
Capitalism is great! You work to earn the right to starve..... wait a minute......
#Satire #Capitalism #AntiCapitalism
Capitalism is great! You work to earn the right to starve..... wait a minute......
#Satire #Capitalism #AntiCapitalism
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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism
Lots of people say #capitalism is doomed. What comes after?
I like when the #NYPost says the quiet part out loud. See, ending illegal labor practices and paying workers a living wage is "anti-capitalist." Being in favor of #capitalism means being happy crushing your workers and driving them into poverty.
If only they said that more…
Some billionaire is probably feeling empty right now, proof that no amount of wealth can fill the void created by a system built on inequality.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism
All my haters are broke, everybody else is a victim of capitalism.
#Capitalism #Hate #AntiCapitalism
Meanwhile, in Hell…
#USA #capitalism https://neopaquita.es/@Shine_McShine/11546982730643344…
RAM price crisis LIVE — latest updates on global memory shortage, expert advice and more | Tom's Guide #capitalism
"Their inaction, their neutrality, their “pragmatic” accommodation—every golden plaque presented to Trump, every settlement paid to avoid retaliation, every silent acquiescence to constitutional destruction—all of this is discrediting capitalism in the eyes of ordinary Americans in ways that no socialist organizer could achieve. They are acting like the cartoon villains Marxists make them out to be"
Do we need any more proof to label all this buzz as forced religious conversion?
#AI #capitalism #religion
What is #capitalism?
#Socialism
"Dynamic” - "Demand based" pricing needs to be outlawed.
Ticketmaster
VIA Rail
Hotels/Accomodations
Airlines
Restaurants
They have all started using this model and it's contributing hugely to unaffordability of life.
This is my TED Talk
#Rant #Affordability #cost #regulation #capitalism
People should have a damn place to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear without having to bleed for it.
But no, capitalism makes you pay just to exist, turning human needs into profit and calling it freedom.
#Socialism #Capitalism
Capitalism is the iron cage in which human potential withers, an economic despotism that breeds inequality, alienation, and the hollowing of community life.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Anarchism
I’ll never understand how someone can claim to be a leftist while still supporting parties that defend and sustain capitalist exploitation.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism
RE: #capitalism, ever thought …
Another endless night, staring at this damn screen, hoping for something that’ll never come. Feels like I’m stuck in this cycle of work, waste, and digital chains.
This fake world just keeps selling me more ways to waste time, more ways to feel empty. Everything’s a distraction. Everything’s a lie.
Capitalism is truly shit, a broken system in a clean shirt.
#Capitalism…
My house is just where I crash between shifts. If I don’t rest, I’m useless the next day. But if I don’t work the next day, no paycheck comes, and then no rest either.
So really, I just visit my place to keep functioning at the job that owns my hours. It’s like living to work, not working to live.
I don’t have a home life anymore, capitalism sucks.
#Capitalism
“A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.”
The purveyors of Fossil Fuels stand strong to doom the world to catastrophe for one more dollar.
I won't be shocked if I hear Canada fell in line.
It's enough to make one want to light the world on fire, if it wasn't already.
#ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels #Fascists #Capitalism #EndStageCapitalism #ClimateEmergency #Shipping #SaudiArabia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vnl0yxg53o
The more I immerse myself in anarchist philosophy through works on The Anarchist Library and discussions on YouTube, the more clearly I come to despise capitalism as an exploitative system and all hierarchical power structures that perpetuate domination and inequality.
#Anarchism #Capitalism
Buying a House in your 30s
#Wojak #Capitalism
RE: #Capitalism
Thanks to #Capitalism, artists rot under #Fascist #Spotify, their art drained for profit as the #music