AllonzeeLV

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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Because we the sucker peasants of the west have largely been propagandized by the owner class from birth into embodying this meme:

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Automation isn't the enemy.

As ever, the owner class that hoards and wages economic war on you though automation for their exclusive benefit at their society's expense are your enemy, whether you would fight them or not.

Arguing that we should "save" back breaking, repetitive unnatural movement, manual labor jobs that break human bodies by the time they're 40 is the WRONG hill to die on. Fight for the citizenry to reap the benefits of automation through taxation, not to keep shitty jobs robots can do faster and better. Fight to change the economy so that everyone doesn't need meaningless jobs machines can do better so we can have actual time to live our lives.

Taxing the fuck out of automation would let everyone win, because a heavily taxed robot is still far cheaper for the company than a human or possibly several humans for that one robot would be, so automation is here either way. We can riot to change our economy to benefit from this technology as we should, or we can be steamrolled yet again by the dictates of the affluent who will demand and get all the benefits and none of the responsibility if not confronted and countered on revolutionary terms.

Please pick the former. There's no dignity or meaning to be had shuffling boxes around in an Amazon warehouse. Begging the owners to let us try to continue to compete with literal purpose built repetitive labor machines is not the way.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, just because we're living in the decline of the empire/regime dejour, doesn't mean we don't still live our lives when possible.

As an example, If my country, the US, saned up tomorrow and started collecting guns, like actually enforcing it including the inevitable stand offs with the nutters climbing bell towers over it to get it fucking done, I would throw mine in the pile eagerly. Wont happen, but I don't fetishize the firearm I own explicitly and exclusively to defend myself from the gun nuts.

I have to live next to the neoconfederate nutters with arsenals. I am still subject to the violence of their nuttery. When in (the fall of) Rome.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago (2 children)

🖕Live Service🖕

It's not the dev's fault, they make what they're told to make. But the President of media enshittifier MAXHBODISCOVERYDUOPOLY has stated that is what they will continue to force feed us in lieu of content we purchase to then enjoy full stop.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I wonder if Alice in Wonderland was in the prompt of if the model found her in the absurdity of the request.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There's no good argument in allowing mergers of companies that are already large enough to be publicly traded at all.

Honestly the whole private shareholder parasite that produces nothing, aside from the chips from their last trip to the exploitation casino, and demands and gets almost every net cent of profit produced is the root cause of most of humanity's great crises. Value/capital earned/made should be tied largely to the quantity/quality/expertise of contributed LABOR, not passive speculative investment, aka gambling, often with loaded market pressure dice and marked insider information cards.

There's a damned good reason, prior to the Reaganomics/Jack Welch giveaway, that the normal business model was customers first, employees second, investors third: because without the first two no one makes anything, and the third only consumes and demands like petulant infants demanding a baba.

Now it's investors first and only, which is not sustainable, just look around at all the mergers enshittifying every economic sector's ability to produce the goods and services they existed to provide in the first place.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Most people seem to struggle with the idea of an indifferent universe.

I find comfort in knowing that all the constructs people take so hilariously seriously will be wiped clean like they never even happened.

It's particularly useful when dealing with annoying A types.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The owners will do what they've been doing with our consent, or we'd have stopped them by now. They're going to keep profiting until the bill comes due, and then they'll cheat like always, this time by running away instead of with floors of tax attorneys and lobbyists capturing their own regulatory bodies, ensuring you'll bear the brunt of the consequences of their fine work.

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-inside-luxury-bunkers-ultra-rich-prepare-for-doomsday-2022-9

The owner class doesn't care about their nation state of origin, or even humanity's future, only themselves and their ego scores. That's literally the sociopathic motivation our civilization rewards through the global economy that punishes pro-social vocations, and is the very reason they won.

When we're dying by the millions through starvation and constant deadly weather events, when far too late we stop making them more capital and start picking up pitchforks, they'll be underground, protected by class traitor private security, sipping exotic whiskies and irrationally placing the blame on the peasants for the fact that their favorite private resort for the rich got flattened by a CAT 6.

It will take millions of years for the Earth to recover from what we're doing in a matter of decades to make a few thousand sociopath families feel like modern Pharoahs.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly I have more respect for the literalists than the ones that recognize the crazy, but pick and choose which beliefs within their religion they're willing to swallow the crazy of rather than walking away.

If you're going to choose to be a nutter, at least fucking commit.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder how many US Presidents actually were believers and how many were just going through the motions because until recently in our history not identifying as one made you a pariah in the US, unwelcome in all the little clubs that could lead to the Presidency.

Obama seemed way too logical and analytical to actually buy into such irrational things. Trump clearly doesn't, purely out of narcissistic self-importance making himself his own deity/object of worship.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Humans on destructive growth/metastasis and short-term private profit gained through the merciless exploitation of their own species and carefree destruction of our only habitat: "DO ANYTHING, DO EVERYTHING! MOOOOAAAAAAR NOW NOW NOW!"

Per the Article, Humans when the consequences for the above arrives: "... If temperatures stay high or, heaven forbid, keep rapidly warming, it would suggest that we’ve broken the climate system. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen."

Yeah, maybe if we clap our hands and hope, that will effect the only outcome our species has any interest in getting to by its own continued actions.

👏I don't believe in man-made climate change, I don't, I don't!👏

Nope, that didn't work, we're still going to burn if all we keep doing is hoping.

 
 

Peter Coy most certainly not coy about propagandizing for our greedy sociopath capitalist owner class.

His rationale? Corporations have always been insatiably greedy, so their sociopathic greed couldn't possibly have increasingly dire consequences for society over time, nevermind all the new power and regulatory capture their lobbying has purchased over the last few decades. This is normal. Shut up.

Such willful ignorance out of people claiming expertise on a topic is especially maddening. At least most willfully ignorant people don't pretend to also value expertise.

 

"Suzy Welch, an NYU business professor, previously said the trend is fuelled by Gen Z's 'strong desire to avoid anxiety at any cost' because they haven’t made hard decisions or done hard things.

Pike believes the discussions around mental health and mental illness must continue and that Gen Z will eventually learn to cope with difficult feelings.

'There may be times where a Gen Z young professional may have a threshold around stress or anxiety or mood that actually over time an expanded comfort with a wider range of emotional experience will actually be a maturing experience for them,' she said.

'Success grows out of learning how to get back on the horse, learning how to build the skills, how to ask for help, and how to build capacity in ways that didn't exist. That's part of maturing in the workplace.'"

So fucking tone deaf, gotta love the baiting of success. Success to Business Insider of course meaning committing your life force to that grind culture to make the owner's ego score lines go up.

 

This was in 1992. I like how George's example, that we only help one another after a flood, no longer even applies in the US, as you have people arguing some people from some places shouldn't be helped even after a natural disaster.

 

George's comedy specials helped raise me from a young age when no one else was doing any raising. I consider him to be one of the greatest minds, social commentators, and philosophers of the 20th century, and I've yet to recognize a contemporary near his level. I'll always be grateful to have had the honor to see him twice before he died.

I see a lot of people enjoy his brilliant bits, but with the way the world is and where its going, imho in the name of enthusiastic greed, I personally find a lot of peace, and a lot less depression when I choose to aspire to George's genuine divorce and detachment from "caring about the outcome."

Enjoy the freakshow, folks!

Bonus: I've seen so many comments in his bit videos wishing for George's perspective on smartphones, well this was near his end (2008), smartphones were just arriving, and his opening words briefly address in passing what he thought about the latest tech obsession.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 

Just so we're clear, the villains won and had the heroes taken out back and shot a loooooong time ago. ❄️Happy Holidays❄️

(and in all seriousness, go watch It's a Wonderful Life if you haven't. It's a great time capsule of the competing values of its time that, imho, provides a lot of context for how we got... here. And it's a really good movie.

It couldn't be made today by a major studio, and if it got remade for name recognition, the core message would be completely gutted.)

 

This is how humanity's story ends, with proudly irresponsible capitalists with god complexes harnessing and packaging technologies they don't even care to understand or consider the consequences of, believing society will pay to repair any "externality" they cause.

Greedy, impulsive monkeys with nukes.

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