Because we’re shoulders deep in late stage capitalism. It won’t be long before we start seeing consumer scarcity. People are living paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford much beyond basic needs. There are only so many hours in a day that people can work, so that’s not stretching much further. We’re rapidly approaching the breaking point. In a world with finite resources, a system seeking infinite growth will eventually collapse.
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MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Why does it feel like lately more and more articles fit Not The Onion or A Boring Distopia?
MrVilliam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 month ago
In a world with finite resources, a system seeking infinite growth will eventually collapse.
That's why some of them are starting to look up. Our great-great-grandchildren are going to be indentured servants on an asteroid mine.
snownyte@kbin.social 1 month ago
Because it feels like the triggers are finally being fired from the corporate capitalists in the world. They've bided their time and when they feel things are tender enough to practice their most devious schemes, then they'll fire upon it.
They do this whenever there is a generational shift, in culture and how we do things. They're always carrying their ideas over and applying them in even more devious ways.
While we all like to laugh at, joke about and make memes of these things. It stops being a joke when you become personally inflicted by it.
crossover@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s the tech business model. Slowly building up a sustainable business has been replaced with coasting on investment money while attempting to capture an entire global market. Because these products can scale so easily. Now they’re entering the “oh shit we need to make money now” phase of the business model.
It’s not evil capitalists. It’s people acting rationally. The incentive structure needs regulation.
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s not evil capitalists. It’s people acting rationally. The incentive structure leads to this behaviour.
IOW, don’t hate the player, hate the game.
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I have plenty of capacity to hate both.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 month ago
We’ve been completely reduced to revenue streams for those that already have unimaginable wealth and it’s killing us. The transparent abuse and exploitation is so beyond parody it wraps around to sounding like a joke. Then you realize it isn’t a joke and get more depressed
thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 1 month ago
Best part is how we went down the exact same path 100 years ago and learned absolutely nothing from it.
UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You will own nothing but make us happy by paying us more for less in your privileged lives of enshitified dependency. Please note that you‘ll all be punished anyway. Toodles!