I think people underestimate how much hope there is in ordinary people.
Every community garden, mutual aid network, worker co-op and act of solidarity is a little glimpse of a better world.
A world built around human needs instead of profit isn't some distant fantasy.
@TaylorLorenz The internet was made in waves, first the nerds in the 1990s and prior, then the geeks and gamers in 2000s then the edgey in 2005, boomers in 2010, then it got compartmentalized into algorithms, 2015 was a second generation of boomers and bots, 2020 we got cooked, 2025 send help
what is the media you are engaging in's agenda? is it to think about a topic in a certain way? is it for you to only think about that certain topic? is it to keep you out of other possible views?
"Silicon Valley ditched cybernetics and promotes the hell out of artificial intelligence."
"it's a labor dispute"
"who enclosed the commons this time and where is our royalty chart?"
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Technology just made your job twice as efficient.
What happens next?
A) You work half the hours
B) You earn twice the money
C) Your workload doubles, your wages stagnate, and a shareholder buys his third yacht
It's funny how society treats being unemployed as a moral failure but being born into enough wealth to never work a day in your life as an achievement.
Apparently contributing to society is only mandatory when you're poor.
The internet isn't dying because people stopped being creative. It's dying because every subculture gets discovered, monetized, and flattened until it's palatable to the largest possible audience.
Corporations do it. Massive influencers do it.
It's digital gentrification.
capitalist states with red on their flags aren't bailing you out of fascist empires, they will instead be profiting from the construction of it whilst you keep distracted from building a mass of bodies that is a class conscious society. the attention to what capital primes is rot