Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.
I think a lot of people are exhausted because it feels like every beautiful or useful thing eventually gets monetised, privatised, extracted, or bulldozed.
People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.”
Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.
There is no capitalist solution to climate change
Capitalism requires endless exploitation of natural resources to fuel accumulation of capital
Any capitalist not denying climate change is trying to commodify it
Either we destroy capitalism, or capitalism destroys our planet
13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement.
"Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."
I’m not even being hyperbolic when I say the US has completely given up on even the pretense of fighting to preserve the habitability of our planet. This goes even beyond politics. Culturally, you can see that Americans no longer care.
No one earns a billion dollars. Billionaires exist because millions of workers are paid far less than the value they create. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a farmer, or a teacher. Stop glorifying wealth hoarders. They’re just professional wage thieves.
Funny how debt is forgivable when it’s tied to yachts, hedge funds, or billionaires’ failed businesses. Tax breaks, subsidies, bailouts, and legal protections appear overnight. But when it’s tied to education, healthcare, or survival, it becomes a character flaw.
Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.