elephant in the room no leaders seem to want to say: capitalism didnt work. shipping tons of junk people dont need around the globe so it can just become waste didnt work. setting us all against each other as competitors didnt work. privatizing basic necessities didnt work.
Working 50 years of your life away to *barely* survive in exchange for *maybe* 10 decent years in the latest stage of your life is about the dumbest fucking shit I've ever heard of.
I know it’s a cliche thing to say, but I no longer have any lingering questions about how fascism comes to power and genocidal atrocities are permitted—what a truly bleak realization.
the contribution of AI is a net negative. the energy and resources consumed, the pollution, carbon, and heat generated far outweighs the useful work obtained out of it. furthermore, it's primary application is weaponry and capitalist optimization.
They made rent impossibly expensive in order to kill off the Slacker archetype. Slacker mindset was too powerful. The HR Karens, the rise and grind lifestyle couches, the "go to therapy" cultists, the type A execs, none could withstand the withering critique of the slacker