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sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Good friend of mine was high up in the advertisement industry. Think Mad Men today.

He is utterly disillusioned by what his industry is advertising, how it works, what it does and who does it. They all know they’re just making the merry go round spin faster and faster towards catastrophe.

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fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Financialised capitalism is a death cult.

Nothing matters to the market but profit. Forests only have value as timber or toilet paper; animals only have value as hot dogs or hamburgers. The precious, unrepeatable moments of our lives only have value as labor hours determined by the imperatives of commerce. The market rewards landlords for evicting families, bosses for exploiting employees, engineers for inventing death machines. It separates mothers from their children, drives species into extinction, shuts down hospitals to open up privatized prisons. It reduces entire ecosystems to ash, spewing out smog and stock options. Left to itself, it will turn the whole world into a graveyard.

Some things are worth risking our lives for. Perpetuating capitalism is not one of them. If we have to risk our lives, let’s risk them for something worthwhile, like creating a world in which no one has to risk death for a paycheck. Life for the market means death for us.

crimethinc.com/…/capitalism-is-a-death-cult

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