German inflation hits 70-year high as economists warn of deep recession risk https://archive.ph/dCp2N 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. @yogthos I live in the next town over. Yeah Trumbull is pretty reactionary (affluent suburb I am sure you get the picture) @yogthos this makes me reel. @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? 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. @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. 😉 @yogthos Not to mention how many cells die every day *by design* for the benefit of the whole organism. @yogthos the mystery of how so much money could be for so many years be made off things noone likes or wants enough to pay for is now solved i guess 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. https://www.scribd.com/document/399594551/2015-06-22-MARK-S-VISION This excerpt From @yogthos The article they're discussing (unimportant things like links get lost when people screensot text) is here: ‘I’m selling my blood’: millions in US can’t make ends meet with two jobs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/05/multiple-jobs-census-data-inflation-us A great short explanation of why the US is not a democracy, and why capitalism is fundamentally at odds with democracy. the study referenced in the video https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B |
@yogthos capitalism is dangerous and stupid ... no, it's dangerous >because< ii's stupid, sorry
@yogthos could equally apply to this country!