Is it cheaper to end poverty than to maintain it? Research says yes - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/cheaper-to-end-poverty-increase-jobseeker-than-maintain-hardship/105866692

#Poverty #Capitalism

Is it cheaper to end poverty than to maintain it? Research says yes - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/cheaper-to-end-poverty-increase-jobseeker-than-maintain-hardship/105866692

#Poverty #Capitalism

“Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households. New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation.” Well I’m sorry but it’s the price you have to pay for me to be super rich. #Capitalism #Poverty

“Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households. New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation.” Well I’m sorry but it’s the price you have to pay for me to be super rich. #Capitalism #Poverty

@13reak
Mastodon's current user base consists largely of people who left Twitter for political reasons. Many have strong anti-corporate opinions, even anti-capitalist ones.

#capitalism #startup

"... #capitalism teaches humans that they are separate from, and superior to, #nature.... [It] wants people to work the same number of hours year-round, no matter the season. This...runs counter to the way #Indigenous people have lived for 1000s of years." https://share.google/3q2wzQVRs4kosc3Fx

"... #capitalism teaches humans that they are separate from, and superior to, #nature.... [It] wants people to work the same number of hours year-round, no matter the season. This...runs counter to the way #Indigenous people have lived for 1000s of years." https://share.google/3q2wzQVRs4kosc3Fx

I'm glad I deleted my #Amazon account a couple months ago. I'm so done with all of these #bigtech fuckers.

When AI prophecy fails
"Amazon made $35 billion in profit last year, so they're celebrating by laying off 14,000 workers (a number they say will rise to 30,000). This is the kind of thing that Wall Street loves, and this layoff comes after a string of pronouncements from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy about how AI is going to let them fire tons of workers."

#Capitalism

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/worker-frightening-machines/#robots-stole-your-jerb-kinda

Step 1: Recognize that it is impossible to become a billionaire without a failure of morality and an abrogation of one's responsibility towards basic human rights.
Step 2: Realize that when a person has once declared that money is more important than morals, they are likely to do so again.
Step 3: Be unsurprised when Bill Gates abandons any commitment to ensuring the continued health of the planet and declares that the climate change crisis is overblown.

There are no good billionaires, people. There are only the ones who are aligned with humanity for as long as it suits their immediate interests, and that never, ever lasts long.

#capitalism #billionaires #eattherich #climate

👉 "When capitalism first showed up it delivered plenty of new things which people had a need and a desire for that weren’t available under previous systems like feudalism. The greatly increased material abundance and explosions of scientific and technological innovation ushered in with the dawn of capitalism caused human quality of life to improve by leaps and bounds.

But now we’re at a point where that just isn’t happening anymore. Things have stagnated, and we’re starting to backslide. People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.

We are being driven into dystopia and annihilation by systems of our own making. We’re meant to be the smartest species on earth, but we locked ourselves in our invention — a self-reinforcing labor camp that makes us miserable — and then we get all huffy when people dare to question if it’s the only way of doing things. Literally every other species is smarter than us. Amoebas are having a better time of it.

This will change when humanity replaces capitalism with something better, in the same way we replaced feudalism with the superior system of capitalism. I don’t know what that system is going to look like, but it’s going to have to involve a move from a model that is driven by competition to one that is driven by collaboration." 👈

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/capitalism-is-shoving-ai-down-our

#Capitalism #Feudalism #Alienation #WageSlavery #Collaboration

@greenpeace Extreme wealth is destroying our liveable planet and also seems to encourage #Fascism #Capitalism

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam

"Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%"

#ClimateCrisis #Capitalism

One of the main ways wealth corrupts is through the erosion of empathy.
When a person achieves fabulous wealth they no longer have to care about what other people say or think because they are insulated from everyone due to their wealth, so their empathy dies.
And when these #Empathy lacking #Billionaires control our media and governments their values infect all of society.
#ElonMusk #Capitalism #Democracy

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam

"Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%"

#ClimateCrisis #Capitalism

Suppose run-amok #capitalism is a car model. Then what is its engine that keeps it going on its destructive rampage? And what fuel does it run on?

Is it the #internet revved up to full overload? Is it high octane #data, that keeps the pistons running like crazy?

According to a Harvard study, FOSS contributes ~9 trillion to hypercapitalist #economy.

What then is #FOSS in this analogy? Free turbochargers?

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html