Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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Business model. Cartoon from early this year.
Business model. Cartoon from early this year.
" #Socialdemocracy cannot serve as a true alternative to #capitalism. It appears attractive on the surface but is built upon deep contradictions that eventually collapse under their own weight.
https://x.com/nyeusi_waasi/status/1986429589518704666
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
At its core, #socialdemocracy seeks a balance between #capitalist #profit motives & #socialist calls for fair #wages, quality #public services & #ecological protection.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Progressives
Alex Akselrod
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You're a non-profit, improving peoples lives and need outside #expertise?
Let's talk.
You're an underfunded government agency or #QUANGO trying to fill a contractor position but having trouble getting the attention the Facebooks and Googles of the world get?
Let's talk.
You're a one-person #business and just need to talk through a problem you're facing with an #engineer for an hour, so you can figure out if it's even a solvable #problem you could hire someone to work on?
Let's talk.
The above (well, except shitting on your head for money) are all things I've done. In general, if you're #helping #people rather than #hurting them for #profit, let's talk. Full-time? Part-time? Contract for just a few hours? You might be surprised.
Hell, I might be surprised. It's happened before.
Thanks for reading. Boosts or sharing with someone who might want my services appreciated.
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A lot of things matter to me in choosing what I work on, and who I work for. Money is one. It isn't the only one. It isn't even the most important one. I have an in-my-head sliding scale I use - the better your work matches my #ethical framework, the less #lucre it takes to convince me to help you.
So if you're using "AI" to build #algorithmic pricing systems to sell to companies so they can #gouge people needing services in their most #desperate hour? I *might* entertain a rate of $1000 per hour to shit on your head. There isn't enough #money in the world to get me to help you build that stuff.
On the other hand, if you're a small #company, selling actual #goods or #services to #customers who want and need them, as opposed to building something #shiny to attract the rubes so you can sell your audience to the #advertising industry? And you need a techie person?
Let's talk.
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You're a non-profit, improving peoples lives and need outside #expertise?
Let's talk.
You're an underfunded government agency or #QUANGO trying to fill a contractor position but having trouble getting the attention the Facebooks and Googles of the world get?
Let's talk.
You're a one-person #business and just need to talk through a problem you're facing with an #engineer for an hour, so you can figure out if it's even a solvable #problem you could hire someone to work on?
Let's talk.
The above (well, except shitting on your head for money) are all things I've done. In general, if you're #helping #people rather than #hurting them for #profit, let's talk. Full-time? Part-time? Contract for just a few hours? You might be surprised.
Hell, I might be surprised. It's happened before.
Thanks for reading. Boosts or sharing with someone who might want my services appreciated.
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Marvin
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A #reminder: #Disney did not reinstate Jimmy Kimmel because they care about the opinions of their viewership or because they are resistant to the US's late-stage #capitalist descent into #fascism. They reinstated him because of the #financial backlash. Don't start seeing Disney as a "good guy" suddenly just because they caved under #profit pressure.
A #reminder: #Disney did not reinstate Jimmy Kimmel because they care about the opinions of their viewership or because they are resistant to the US's late-stage #capitalist descent into #fascism. They reinstated him because of the #financial backlash. Don't start seeing Disney as a "good guy" suddenly just because they caved under #profit pressure.
bhaugen
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"These #fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by #climatechange induced by our #socioeconomic order & aggravated by #land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, #profit & #growth."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/27/mediterranean-wildfires-are-no-accident
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
"These #fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by #climatechange induced by our #socioeconomic order & aggravated by #land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, #profit & #growth."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/27/mediterranean-wildfires-are-no-accident
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
And for #capital, the purpose of #production is not to meet #human needs, or to achieve #social progress, but to maximize & accumulate #profit. That is the overriding objective.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Harris#TimWalz#Walz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#Sanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
@alcinnz @kevinrns well I think #creators must be able to #profit from their work, like #Franquin could sell his #commicbooks#SpirouEtFantasio#GastonLagaffe . If there aint no #copyrightlaw anyone could copy his #creation, and he couldnt make or would have made less money from it.
But like #patentlaw, #copyright must expire sometime, and not like #disney's #MickeyMouse who's been protected from being copied for #waltdisney's entire lifetime and 70 afterwards …
But like #patentlaw, #copyright must expire sometime, and not like #disney's #MickeyMouse who's been protected from being copied for #waltdisney's entire lifetime and 70 afterwards …
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Das von den Rechten jegliche Tools genutzt werden um ihre Propaganda zu verbreiten ist seit eh und je. Sobald es geht Präsens vorzutäuschen wird Technik verwendet, erst Radio, dann Web, nun KI und TikTok sieht dadurch nur Profit.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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ECOFASCISM
capitalist bogey
#Ecofascism#Capitalism#Scapegoat#Humanity#Genocide#Profit#Bogey
ECOFASCISM
capitalist bogey
#Ecofascism#Capitalism#Scapegoat#Humanity#Genocide#Profit#Bogey
Luc, framage
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Vous pouvez apprendre ça par cœur :
En moyenne selon l'OCDE, une heure de travail produit 70€ de richesse. On en touche à peine 18€/h.
Où est passé le reste ?
#Économique
#Capitalisme
#Marge
#Profit
#Valeur
#Plusvalue
#EatTheRich
Vous pouvez apprendre ça par cœur :
En moyenne selon l'OCDE, une heure de travail produit 70€ de richesse. On en touche à peine 18€/h.
Où est passé le reste ?
#Économique
#Capitalisme
#Marge
#Profit
#Valeur
#Plusvalue
#EatTheRich