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Cake day: February 29th, 2024

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  • Hierarchy creates inequality, it’s just how it works.

    Always and every single time, it doesn’t matter how nicely you dress it up or try to convince yourself that if it was you (or your personal “leader” of choice) it would somehow be different. Inequality is literally built in to the structure.

    E: I just had to come back and show some appreciation for “be the change you want to see in the world - follow someone else”, I know you didn’t mean it, but the irony is just too good…










  • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlThe Benefits of World Hunger
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    How does the saying go? When your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail?

    The only tool he has is what capitalism gave him - the idea that people will only work if threatened with starvation, homelessness, or other punishment.

    The idea that the benefit of a community and society at large, and by direct extension - our own, could motivate people, or to be more precise, the idea that society would benefit everyone not just a “select” few, doesn’t even come in to consideration.



  • It is just so frustrating that people have been warning about exactly what is happening (not just with the DWP, mind), yet the general public just don’t want to hear it, the illusion of choice being so narrow makes life easy - you’re either team red or team blue (or maybe yellow or green if you’re feeling “rebellious”), and that’s all you need to know about the world (the result of being over worked, under paid, and propagandised since birth in to whatever benefits capitalism most, of course).

    Step outside that box, and they become so overwhelmed by (or completely shut down to) the endless possibilities, they just don’t know how to deal with it. It’s so fucked up how well the system works at preserving itself.