Comment on "Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.
Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve always believed it would be useful to have a thing like this but for brand logos.
But instead of blurring or blocking the brand logo like an adblocker what it does instead is show you the face of the top shareholder in that brand. Remove the brands and show the assholes that own them. Where it’s not a single person you replace that brand with the name of the hedgefund or bank that owns the investment.
Screwthehole@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But then everything everywhere would look the same - whatever random picture it uses for Blackrock
Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s kinda the point. Being able to see just how few people own literally everything and thus are influencing opinion through means that people currently completely overlook is powerful. Advertising is literally propaganda. Consumer culture is propaganda. When you cut through that and make people conscious of it on a constant minute to minute basis you will see rapid radicalisation occur. Our society relies on a system of carefully designed barriers that create separation between the people and the ruling class in a way that is unnoticeable to the average person without prompting.
Think of it like pulling back the curtain in the wizard of oz for people.