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frankiezafe

@yogthos capitalism is dangerous and stupid ... no, it's dangerous >because< ii's stupid, sorry

Yogthos

German inflation hits 70-year high as economists warn of deep recession risk archive.ph/dCp2N

Piotr Sikora

@yogthos @xgqt ROTFL. Twitter frontend is written in JavaScript (ReactNative)

Yogthos

A town in Connecticut voted on and approved a resolution asking their local Starbucks workers to work faster because people didn't like waiting in the drive thru line.

Paige 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈🔭📖🌹🌌

@yogthos I live in the next town over. Yeah Trumbull is pretty reactionary (affluent suburb I am sure you get the picture)

🜏professional doofus⛧

@yogthos this makes me reel.
:anarchy: :anarchiststar: death to capitalism:anarchiststar: :anarchy:

Yogthos

big tech layoffs this year so far

Vale@kujike.nai

@yogthos .social alone has that many users. pawoo has another 700k. mstdn.jp another idk, 300k was it? where do these numbers even come from?

Yogthos

A useful way to look at society is to treat it as an organism where individuals are cells of a greater whole.

The best way to ensure that the overall organism is healthy is by ensuring that each individual cell is happy and healthy.

This means organizing the economy around meeting the needs of as many people as possible. This is what socialists and communists aim to do.

Jack of all trades

@yogthos Note that in humans the brain is just 2% of body's mass, but consumes 20-25% of its energy. Not the comparison you were going for, I'm sure. 😉

Jack of all trades

@yogthos Not to mention how many cells die every day *by design* for the benefit of the whole organism.

Yogthos

Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy from 2015 shows that Facebook got concerned that Apple and Google control mobile platforms, and they wanted to have a platform that they controlled entirely.

scribd.com/document/399594551/

Yogthos

Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop podman-desktop.io/

Yogthos

This excerpt From
ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism succinctly explains how capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction.

2. The People’s Role in History
 To comprehend the people’s role in history, one needs to understand how it contributes to society's material and spiritual life. 
 We know that the people is the producer of all material wealth, both the means of subsistence and of production being obtained by its efforts. Engels wrote that nature was the mother, and labour the father, of wealth. But whose labour is it? Who works on the objects of labour and remakes nature, compelling the natural properties of
things, the forces of nature to serve man and even creating new qualities and forces not found as such in nature? It is men, the working people, who are the most honourable and important on Earth. The people alone creates all material wealth of society by its labour. 
 Then, what part does the people—the working people above all—play in the system of production? First of all, let us recall that the workers engaged in material production make up a part of the productive forces. They constitute living labour. Without it, dead labour stockpiled in the means of production cannot return to life. Although the character of the productive forces does not depend on men’s choice, it is still the working people who, in conjunction with the instruments of labour (which may be individual or social, based on a division of labour or otherwise, involving simple or complex cooperation) actually determine the character of production and so of the productive forces in general. And this is an essential characteristic of material production, determining to a great extent the development of society.
Now let us look at the working people’s role in production relations. It would be incorrect to assume that in economic systems based on exploitation the relations of production are represented merely by the owners of means of production, i.e, by the exploiters, not the workers. No doubt, the most vivid embodiment of capital are the capitalists. Nevertheless, capital in its bourgeois form (unlike usury capital, for instance) exists only insofar as the workers’ labour power is a commodity which the capitalist can buy and which is consumed in the process of production organised on capitalist lines.  Labour power is as essential to the capitalist economy as capital itself. Its owners are the proletarians—a class which has a decisive role in history—and which constitutes, in our own age, the bulk of the people. 
 The capitalist mode of production breeds the proletariat and helps it develop into a world revolutionary force. That is the key point of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine. 
 Bred by capitalist society, the proletariat is the exponent of new social relations and a force which is to destroy capitalism. 

Excerpt From
ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism
USSR
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