when we say “crime is a social construct”.
what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.
Sheryl Crow calls the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House “disgraceful and void of decency”:
“Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living.”
yall don’t think it’s WEIRD , that CPS will potentially take your kids if you’re struggling (unable to feed them , clothe them , pay for necessary medicines , etc.) 🤔 and then once your kids are taken , they put them in a home with another family , and then give THEM money every month to take care of your kids ??
is that not a fucked up system ?!
I’m constantly astonished that billionaires would rather ignore the climate crisis and prepare to live in a bunker with dvds and baked beans than devote a modicum of their bottomless wealth to saving the planet where we have fresh fruit and soft grass and blue skies.
Elizabeth Warren’s proposed 3% tax on people with over $100M in wealth would generate $30B in revenue each year on Elon Musk’s fortune alone. That’s about how much the US spends each year on affordable housing subsidies.
Tax. The. Rich.
Y'all will say “get a job, don't be picky, poverty is a choice”, but then the only jobs that are hiring are Target and Forever 21, then when people say they can't pay their bills y'all start telling them to “get better jobs”. Y'all do CARTWHEELS just to justify poverty.
How are we supposed to give a flying fuck that Elon is a trillionaire when the guy literally used his power to END programs that fed the poorest people on Earth?
Fuck that selfish asshole, and fuck his trillion dollars helping nobody but his damn self.
THE FUCKING NERVE OF NETFLIX AND OTHER STREAMING SERVICES TO ENCOURAGE US TO CANCEL OUR CABLE WITH THE PROMISE TO DELIVER AN AD FREE SERVICE, ONLY TO TURN AROUND AND RE INTRODUCE ADS, AND THEN CHARGE YOU ON TOP OF YOUR CURRENT PLAN FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO REMOVE THEM!!!!!
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.