A common justification for mass surveillance is “it stops crime.”
But it’s mostly used to crush dissent, target non-mainstream views, and sell ads.
Safety is the excuse. Control is the result.
Meanwhile you need to make $124k to qualify on average to buy the median priced home which now costs $400,000.
So 82% of people in this country can no longer afford an average home. 🤦♂️
Meanwhile you need to make $124k to qualify on average to buy the median priced home which now costs $400,000.
So 82% of people in this country can no longer afford an average home. 🤦♂️
NEW: @WSJ reports "Americans are having a record low amount of sex—even less than they did during Covid—according to a new study" from @FamStudies. We find that
✔️just 37% of adult Americans have sex weekly
NEW: @WSJ reports "Americans are having a record low amount of sex—even less than they did during Covid—according to a new study" from @FamStudies. We find that
✔️just 37% of adult Americans have sex weekly https://t.co/T8ZqOyBiUo
Power is not brute resistance. It’s calibration. Know when to yield, when to charm, when to cut, and when to strike. The art is spending little of your own energy while forcing others to exhaust theirs.
- 285-to-1 CEO to worker pay ratio
- $50B in wage theft per year
- 44% of workers paid poverty wages
- Health coverage tied to employment
- No paid family leave
- AI taking jobs
- Up to $433M spent on union busting per year
At no point should you feel bad for the corporations.
- 285-to-1 CEO to worker pay ratio
- $50B in wage theft per year
- 44% of workers paid poverty wages
- Health coverage tied to employment
- No paid family leave
- AI taking jobs
- Up to $433M spent on union busting per year
At no point should you feel bad for the corporations.
Capitalism cloaks deficiency in glamour. Waste is marketed as innovation. Obsolescence is branded as progress. Insecurity is sold as aspiration. The cycle ensures we return to buy again.
One of the scariest things, to me, is when people are in a deteriorating situation that progressively undermines their ability to understand it, like when nitrogen narcosis makes it harder for a diver to recognize the warning signs of nitrogen narcosis.
Today’s world exists within the consequence cone of the Cold War, which exists in that of WW2, which exists in that of WW1, (which exists as a preemptive counterrevolution against worldwide socialism). In that way WW1 never ended.
Today’s world exists within the consequence cone of the Cold War, which exists in that of WW2, which exists in that of WW1, (which exists as a preemptive counterrevolution against worldwide socialism). In that way WW1 never ended.
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