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Probably because our society has chosen to live in service to our rigged economy, instead of having our economy as a tool to distribute goods and services for the benefit of society as it's supposed to be.

I wake up every day for work knowing most of my labor will be used to enrich some assholes on Wall Street who consider peasants like me to be subhuman. I wake up every day for work for nothing more than survival so I don't end up on a street corner, but beyond that, my work saps me of purpose.

That is why I imagine this as it is. Most of us are part of a vast underclass that exists solely to enrich the already rich that underpays us so we cannot even fund the hobbies we could derive any meaning from.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

Gee, I wonder why so many struggle to find anything but sadness subsisting as exploited capital batteries for wealthy sociopaths.

Sigh

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...Until at last, I threw down Reddit and smote its ruin upon the mountainside.

Oh pretty please, send some aggressive capitalist sycophant class traitors to attempt to handle me.

Its worse than that. A corporation starts a charity or gives 100k to one. Real nice right? Nope.

They will:

1. use that to decrease their tax burden, robbing the commons of their share of taxes to repair the infrastructure their semi-trucks and businesses disproportionately use and tear up, the public educated, pre-literate workforce they have access to, and then...

2. they ADVERTISE how noble they are, spending millions upon millions in ad buys to tell you what how awesome they are for donating that 100k. They use the guise of what is supposed to be giving with no expectation of return, ie "charity," as a marketing strategy, and then...

3. They use such initiatives as lobbying tools to explain why their industry doesn't need to be taxed to institutionally, societally address the issue that is currently subject to the transient whims of charity.

There is nothing a publically traded corporation does that isn't done out of greed, that isn't calculated to provide more return than dispursment. Nothing.

Charity with any expectation of return, beyond a warm fuzzy feeling inside, isn't charity at all, but there is a word for it: a transaction.

And nothing of value was lost.

That's why the only social I used was reddit and now moved to lemmy. Because I would rather ideas rise and fall on their own merits than by the name recognition of who said them. I value ideas, not personas or brands.

Some idiot celebrity/politician/Capitalist Sociopath says something and it gets seen by millions, not because it was worth seeing, but because a famous person said it.

That's the thing though, the Republicans already broke that machine by refusing to consider Obama's appointment, with no repurcussians of any kind.

At this point, obeying rules and norms and not doing what you can get away with in federal government to achieve your goals just makes you a sucker.

Don't worry, Mr. Oligarch, the peasants will always be too busy tearing one another down over petty social issues that the economic prison you own causes or exacerbates by design.

Your division propaganda machine is working as intended. Half of the working class is so deluded and confused that they'd take a bullet for a "job creator" like you. In most of this prison camp, saying an unkind word about the owner class will be met with ignorant ridicule and scorn. You're fine. You got us good.

If you want to worry, worry about the climate change your class caused wiping us all out. You can't bribe, divide, trick, or bargain with that.

This isn't a court making a ruling.

These are members of the owner class asserting dominance to their capital batteries.

Ooh La La, Someone's Going To Get Laid In College...

Meh, lets not.

In my experience, older people have to make conscious effort to maintain critical thinking and reasoning and not start lazily regurgitating settled, memorized opinions they've come rely on as absolutes, intead of allowing those beliefs to be subject to fresh challenges from novel perspectives that may change those opinions. Many do make that effort, and many do not. To paraphrase my favorite fictional character, if you refuse to change your mind, then you will die stupid.

Individuals are individuals of course though. I'm of the opinion that, on an individual basis, beyond the age of around 12, age is an extremely poor metric to estimate someone's intellect, wisdom, and insight. I'm in my mid 30s and have a master's degree in psychology with a 3.9 GPA. I recognize that there are 18 year olds that dwarf me intellectually, and more commonly 80 year olds who've lived lives devoid of reflection, who will die defending their long dead pappy's narrative about how the world works with anger rather than reason, solely because that's what they were told to believe. I have pity for that type, but very little patience.

A fool and his money are soon ~~parted~~ crushed under 6,000 psi of atmospheric pressure.