Viking_Hippie
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- Comment on Fucking leeches 6 hours ago:
Yeah, it’s pretty much a defining aspect of Neoliberalism. Just like turning the corruption up to 11 in both severity and blatancy is a hallmark of the economics of fascism.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 6 hours ago:
Meh.
- This isn’t an America problem. People do this in every country
It’s WORSE in the US than in most other countries, including all other wealthy countries, though. Differences in scale matter
- This is capitalism not corruption
Taken to the extremes it will inevitably reach if not sufficiently restrained, capitalism IS corruption with fancy packaging. It’s right in the name: it’s an ism (belief system) where accruing capital is the most important of ALL things.
In every Western country other than the US, accepting large sums of money and other perks from rich people who want favors is the DEFINITION of corruption, whether or not there’s a specifically stated quid pro quo.
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 7 hours ago:
Seems like you misunderstood what I meant: I’m not saying that most morning people are neurotic control freaks who lack empathy.
I’m saying that most neurotic control freaks who lack empathy, a small proportion of the population which is EXTREMELY overrepresented in positions of authority, are also morning people
So yeah, seems we’re in agreement about daywalkers in general 😁
- Comment on Fucking leeches 9 hours ago:
In a word, corruption.
In two words, legal corruption.
In three words, blatant legal corruption.
In four words, United States political system.
- Comment on DOGE Is Replacing Fired Workers With a Chatbot 9 hours ago:
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 10 hours ago:
I’m pretty sure that the morning people Venn circle has a shitload of overlap with the kind of people who are both neurotic control freaks and lacking in empathy and are thus vastly overrepresented in positions of authority to begin with.
Then once they got into power, they enforced their preferences to the point that it’s now a prerequisite for power, which makes it even more likely to be perpetuated and so on and so forth until everyone whose sleep patterns don’t naturally conform simply die several years earlier due to all the added stress and poor health decisions required to adapt.
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- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 day ago:
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 day ago:
But what if you want to sell a product you designed but can’t afford to create it or to setup a factory for it, so you want funding, so you try to get investments, maybe by selling equity in your company. Is that not valuable to society? The people that take the risk that your product may not sell?
That’s where small business grants from the government comes in.
Helping people thrive without being beholden to ruthless opportunists or run the risk of bankrupting private investors is EXACTLY the kind of thing tax dollars should be spent on in stead of the MIC, subsidies for the most profitable corporations in the world, and other such enriching of the already rich.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 day ago:
ALL forms of making money from having money need to be abolished completely.
If you’re not creating/selling a product or providing a service, you’re not EARNING money. Furthermore, rich people getting richer through passive income is the #1 thing diminishing the returns from actually worthwhile endeavors.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 day ago:
Any reason why we can’t just change the tax code to make this thing less viable?
99% of state and federal level politicians are owned by these leeches and/or ARE theese leeches.
In other words, almost all of the people with the power to do anything about it have a vested interest in NOT doing anything about it.
this shouldn’t be how to run a society.
Ramen.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 day ago:
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 day ago:
I also liked your album, Elder 😁
- Submitted 1 day ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 312 comments
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 2 days ago:
Fittingly enough, that’s SO close to the latter half of the chorus of Alice Cooper’s 1991 banger Might As Well Be On Mars:
🎵Oh, can you feel me so close
And yet so far
Baby, I might as well be on Mars🎵 - Submitted 2 days ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Low effort arguing 3 days ago:
Covering a water mark, maybe? 🤷
- Comment on Hate crimes 3 days ago:
Yeah, that’s probably why Trump keeps winning the white woman vote in spite of everything he’s ever said or done to or about women…
#Feminism #LadyBigotry
- Comment on Pounce 4 days ago:
Forgot the all-important butt wriggle! You can’t pounce without doing that first!
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 days ago:
the unhinged topiary
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 days ago:
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie 😄
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- Comment on 6 days ago:
I never said he was GOOD at it 😉
- Comment on 1 week ago:
the Fabio game.
You mean Goose Dodging Simulator?
- Comment on The very first thing that every human does when arriving in a brand new place, is take a piss on it. 1 week ago:
I think you’re confusing “every human” with “my mom’s dog Walther” 🤔
- Uber for nurses: tech companies accused of accessing nurse financial situation to determine pay based on level of desperationphpc.social ↗Submitted 1 week ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 2 comments
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