The problem with #capitalism is often all the things that DON’T happen because of it.
I guarantee that if American companies were losing billions as a consequence of the current massacre in #Palestine it would stop overnight.
But it turns out that while “unfortunately the children are on fire” capital keeps expanding. So nothing happens because under capitalism nothing is necessary if it is not expanding capital.
@shiri@mmby@Daojoan I haven’t seen any reason to be optimistic about #ai. Under #capitalism all I see are dead arts, replaced jobs, and the loss of humanity. I think it’s naive to believe otherwise.
That’s not even getting into its impact on #climatechange
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my average daily water usage was around 22 litres, then in first quarter 2024 has gone up to 4,750 litres a day and from £30 a quarter to £1418.
I have canceled my direct debit, there is no way I am paying this amount for water I did not use.
#Negri#Marxism#Capitalism#Multitude#ImmaterialLabour: "On November 27 and 29, 2014, Prof. WANG Hui, the Director of Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences in Beijing, invited Prof. Antonio Negri, one of Italy's most leading Marxist philosophers and activists, to give a series of lectures. I was invited by Prof. WANG Hui to offer comments and reflections on one of Prof. Antonio Negri’s lectures, titled “The Metropolis as Post-Industrial Factory”. New Bloom published this article in Chinese based on the transcripts of the above lecture. It was translated into English by Ngai Pun."
#Students#Universities#HigherEd#Neoliberalism#Capitalism#EffectiveAltruism: "Some faculty see the influence of effective altruism among this generation: In the last five years, Roosevelt Montás, a senior lecturer at Columbia University and the former director of its Center for the Core Curriculum, has noticed a new trend when he asks students in his American Political Thought classes to consider their future.
“Almost every discussion, someone will come in and say, ‘Well, I can go and make a lot of money and do more good with that money than I could by doing some kind of charitable or service profession,’” Mr. Montás said. “It’s there constantly — a way of justifying a career that is organized around making money.”
Mr. Desai said all of this logic goes, “‘Make the bag so you can do good in the world, make the bag so you can go into retirement, make the bag so you can then go do what you really want to do.’”
But this “really underestimates how important work is to people’s lives,” he said. “What it gets wrong is, you spend 15 years at the hedge fund, you’re going to be a different person. You don’t just go work and make a lot of money, you go work and you become a different person.”"
There are people who spend their days calling senior citizens and pretending to be grandsons or daughters and be in jail or some other form of grievous situation to trick them into sending them money.
Tell me again how the loss of the human race would be a tragedy.
IDK why, but the bloodless greed of this gets me even more in some ways than more heinous acts.
People who do this stuff and take someone's entire income for the month always use the money to buy the worst shit imaginable. Overpriced designer clothes, overpriced drinks at overpriced clubs, it's not a crime of passion, or a belief in some great cause, it's just sociopathic greed #capitalism#conspicuousconsumption #greed
So, every other subthread is someone talking #capitalism this and #socialism that with very poor commonality of definitions. So here's one to try on for size:
Capitalism: a system of economics in which the state determines through threat of violence a special group of people who have exclusive say in how capital goods are used.
That covers for example both the USA, and USSR pretty well. any other capitalist countries we'd like to discuss?