If you try to save money by cooking at home, you walk into a grocery store where three massive conglomerates own every brand on the shelf and have colluded to raise baseline prices by 40% over three years.
If you try to cut costs by renting a modest apartment, you face corporate landlords using automated algorithmic software to artificially inflate rental rates across the entire city simultaneously.
If you try to opt out of car debt by using public transit, you realize municipal budgets were slashed to protect the auto industry, leaving you with zero reliable infrastructure to get to work.
You aren't making "poor financial decisions."
Every single alternative route to survival has been intentionally bought out, consolidated, and monetized to extract maximum profit from your baseline existence.
They don't want you to build wealth; they want you permanently trapped on a treadmill where every necessary life pivot just leads back to the exact same corporate ledger.
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”
“We are liquidating the Earth’s natural capital. We are tearing down the biological library before we have even read the books. No amount of economic growth can compensate for the loss of a self-sustaining biosphere.”
— E.O. Wilson
The billionaires (and the trillionaire) have decided we all don't need a "middle class" anymore.
You'll go from peasants to slaves in a blink, and there are some amongst you that will applaud and celebrate their own enslavement.
Hey @jaketapper I’m still waiting for your book on this sundowning adjudicated rapist pedophile wandering around aimlessly and falling asleep on camera every time he leaves his bunker safe space
🇯🇵🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day to our friends in the United States!
This song is very popular here in Japan and many artists often cover it. I particularly love this one.