@DarcyAmaroo Problem is our power is privatised. Loss of profits caused by a drop in consumption, solar and batteries results in increased fees and charges to compensate for loss of profits.
We got rid of checkout staff at supermarkets, now you do it.
Prices went up
We got rid of films, music, game discs, now you own it as long as they let you
Prices went up.
Now AI is bringing the same, terrible services, no jobs
The only thing that goes up are their profits
The crisis in Europe aims to reduce living standards and drive people towards war. EU' looking for an enemy to justify the decline in living standards of the EU.
It blows my mind every day how this society operates under the lie that there isn't enough. We throw away tons of food, we have more empty houses than homeless people, and our landfills are full of clothing and furniture.
They exported the ideology of the free market to the world with guns and structural adjustment programs and IMF conditions.
Liberalize. Privatize. Cut the public sector. Let the market determine outcomes. Trust the mechanism.
Meanwhile at home, the banks failed in 2008 and received $700 billion in public money within weeks.
The free market for thee.
Socialism for the institutions that own the political class.
The people who lost their homes in 2008, amid 10 million foreclosures in the United States, did not receive a bailout.
The people who created the instruments that caused the crisis, who collected bonuses in the years they were building it, and who collected bonuses again in the years after the public absorbed the loss:
Not one of them went to prison.
Not one.
The ideology of personal responsibility, applied with perfect consistency, would have produced criminal trials and institutional collapse for the people at the top.
Instead it produced: austerity for everyone else, lectures about dependency culture, and a return to bonuses within eighteen months.
This is not corruption in the sense of individual bad actors.
This is corruption as architecture.
The building is designed this way.
The people inside it are not breaking the rules.
They wrote the rules.
My wife said that I'd get death stares if I wore my keffiyah to the restaurant lst Friday.
I got sent a beer instead.
Australia, we're 87% against genocide!!
So good.
🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani drops a massive bombshell!
He announces a historic $1.2 BILLION expansion of free childcare, increasing seats from 2,000 to 12,000 across NYC.
He is actively destroying the crushing costs of raising a family for the working class!
Western propaganda stays silent on this:
Iran ranks #1 in Asia for organ transplants.
2nd largest producer of artificial heart valves.
Top 10 in infertility treatment & nuclear medicine.
First country to produce anti-cancer drugs.
Why the silence? No profit for them.
Sorry Mr. West — the world of today isn’t buying your lies anymore.