#latestagecapitalism

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-allow-higher-ethanol-fuel-sales-summer-check-gas-prices-2022-04-12/


The best capitalism is socialism.

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will unveil plans on Tuesday to extend the availability of higher biofuel blends of gasoline during the summer to curb soaring fuel costs and to cut reliance on foreign energy sources, senior administration officials said.

[Potato]

I'm sure all those people who used to work in subsistence farming really hate what capitalism has done to work

[Tasty]

I was gonna say, some real hardcore historical revisionism in the first few mins of that video.

[Uncle]

I thought a yearning for the good old days before everything was ruined tended to be a conservative viewpoint

(particularly the good old days of majority industrial jobs)

[Potato]

I was gonna say, some real hardcore historical revisionism in the first few mins of that video.

I didn't watch any of it, but it's pretty easy to assume that person has some Rose tinted glasses on if they think work only sucks because capitalism ruined it.

Let's face it, capitalism is probably the best thing that ever happened to work because it allowed many, many people to pursue their passions.

Without capitalism there wouldn't be an 8 hour work day and a five day work week.

[Potato]

I thought a yearning for the good old days before everything was ruined tended to be a conservative viewpoint

(particularly the good old days of majority industrial jobs)

Have you been listening to today's so called lefties? Their politics is more than reminiscent of 70s conservatives.

[Tasty]

‘Decentralized’ web3 startups find out the hard way there’s no safety net

[jorma]

I was gonna say, some real hardcore historical revisionism in the first few mins of that video.

I didn't watch any of it, but it's pretty easy to assume that person has some Rose tinted glasses on if they think work only sucks because capitalism ruined it.

Let's face it, capitalism is probably the best thing that ever happened to work because it allowed many, many people to pursue their passions.

Without capitalism there wouldn't be an 8 hour work day and a five day work week.

 

[Potato]

I was gonna say, some real hardcore historical revisionism in the first few mins of that video.

I didn't watch any of it, but it's pretty easy to assume that person has some Rose tinted glasses on if they think work only sucks because capitalism ruined it.

Let's face it, capitalism is probably the best thing that ever happened to work because it allowed many, many people to pursue their passions.

Without capitalism there wouldn't be an 8 hour work day and a five day work week.

 

How amazing were those working conditions in communist countries again?

[Tasty]

I credit the five-day work week to the socialist hellgroups called "unions" over unfiltered, Libertarian-style capitalism. But that's just cause I know some history.

[Potato]

Unions are a product and participant of the capitalist system and use its foundations of market supply and demand as tools to further their goals. Captialism doesn't exist in a vacuum without the participation of workers and unions.

Socialists are unsure of whether unions even have a place in a socialist system.

The attempts to implement a socialist system have categorically resulted in worse working conditions than those in capitalist countries. Compare China's 996 working culture to that of western capitalist countries.

[Tasty]

I still wanted to call out the five-day work week thing, specifically.

[Potato]

I still wanted to call out the five-day work week thing, specifically.

On review, I did leave some thoughts unsaid, so I've fixed it below:

Without capitalism, and the balance provided by unions within the captialist system, there wouldn't be an 8 hour work day and a five day work week. People would just be worked into the dirt by their bourgeoise/communist overlords and replaced by the next willing warm body.

[Tasty]

https://www.neowin.net/news/leaked-document-reveals-facebook-has-no-control-over-user-data-and-where-it039s-going/

The company with the vastest amount of personal information on the most amount of humans has no idea where that data's going. That's comforting. (And unsurprising, to me anyways).

I wouldn't expect Twitter to be much different. Ad networks are data vultures that will exploit every private loophole in order to shave half a penny off a bid or place bids 0.21 milliseconds earlier than the competition.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/birkmurkrow/status/1519796317379305478

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

prevent the practice, which has gained popularity in recent years

what?


lol

[Joe Molotov]

People sharing a communal space? Smells like Communism to me!

[BIONIC]

Living with other people 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

this is why phrogging is better.

[Tasty]

Living with other people 

Showering with other people

[benjipwns]

There's more of those kinds of ordinances than you might think. Usually they're done with the goal of banning places where students would live, though Shawnee (a Kansas City suburb) doesn't appear to have any colleges so I'm not sure what the specific motivation is here. It's interesting that it was an 8-0 vote but the story quotes not a single person from the Council nor anyone who supported the ordinance.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

stop fact checking

[Tasty]

‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you

A survey last September by review site Digital.com of 1,250 US employers found 60% with remote employees are using work monitoring software of some type, most commonly to track web browsing and application use. And almost nine out of 10 of the companies said they had terminated workers after implementing monitoring software.

The number and array of tools now on offer to continuously monitor employees’ digital activity and provide feedback to managers is remarkable. Tracking technology can also log keystrokes, take screenshots, record mouse movements, activate webcams and microphones, or periodically snap pictures without employees knowing. And a growing subset incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithms to make sense of the data being collected.

One AI monitoring technology, Veriato, gives workers a daily “risk score” which indicates the likelihood they pose a security threat to their employer. This could be because they may accidentally leak something, or because they intend to steal data or intellectual property.

[Tasty]

Disney's writer wage theft, a year on

[Potato]

Disney's writer wage theft, a year on

Quick, what's the next minority Disney can exploit to bury this?

[Joe Molotov]

Disney's writer wage theft, a year on

Quick, what's the next minority Disney can exploit to bury this?

White Males 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1521787921245872129

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1522589983651074048

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/NimbyPatrol/status/1522048127942897664

[BIONIC]

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1522589983651074048

Riotous really hit hard times since he nuked his account

[Nintex]

What level of capitalism is Ice Cube promoting Doge on Fox 

https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1522644249925148672

[benjipwns]

[Nintex]

[Madrun Badrun]

[Uncle]

(Image removed from quote.)

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/sarajhendricks/status/1524461104713318400

[Joe Molotov]

Nice try, Gwyneth Paltrow, I ain't paying $10 to shid my pants. I can and will do that for free.

[Uncle]

honestly I don't care how many sexual partners the alpacas have had

[Joe Molotov]

Imagine being so poor that you can only afford slutty alpaca wool.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

imagine not knowing alpaca is softer than your mom.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs/status/1525150731321257985

[Nintex]

Babies are just freeloaders

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/1524731123795783681

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/1526182799480221697

[who is ted danson?]

re US baby formula shortage: this whole thread is 
https://twitter.com/pegobry/status/1526087938420969472

[Nintex]

We often have shortages because Chinese or others buy up the supply when theirs is poisoned.

To fix this there's now a Dutch baby formula factory in China.

We've already been warned that the Americans are likely to start buying in bulk. 
Same with arbotion pills.

[Potato]

We often have shortages because Chinese or others buy up the supply when theirs is poisoned.

Same. There's whole businesses that do nothing more than buy Australian products like baby formula and stuff and send it to rich buyers in China.

#latestagecommunism I guess...

[who is ted danson?]

https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/comments/urn8zz/right/

 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/coolmathgame_/status/1526676376237092864

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs/status/1527087337422721024

[benjipwns]

Scrolled down on that account:
https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs/status/1526540231561793538

 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/WomenPostingLs/status/1527654408548392961

[Tasty]

The Information: Panic at the Discord

The crypto party was as raucous as ever—and then someone turned on the lights. After a stablecoin crash wiped out some $400 billion in market cap last week, the crypto industry was left with shaken confidence and a massive hangover.

[Tasty]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_bubble#Collapse_of_Terra-Luna

In the wake of Terra-Luna's collapse, another algorithmic stablecoin, DEI, lost its peg to the dollar and started to collapse.[64][65]

64. "Another Stablecoin Loses Peg as Algorithm Fails to Keep Pace". Bloomberg.com. 2022-05-16. Retrieved 2022-05-17.

65. Clark, Mitchell (2022-05-16). "More stablecoins are destabilizing, sparking even more shenanigans". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-05-17.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/mckinleaf/status/1528614859075907585

[Potato]

How do I pick all of them?

[Tasty]

'Plan for the worst', Y Combinator tells startup founders as global markets go into a tailspin

[Nintex]

'Plan for the worst', Y Combinator tells startup founders as global markets go into a tailspin

It'll be much worse than they can possibly imagine.
I pretty much expect the bottom to drop out from under the non-essential tech market with the exception of video games and other forms of 'cheap' entertainment.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1528838175891681280

 

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1528838175891681280

 

I wonder what he'd do if you took his anarchist philosophy to heart and just decided to steal all his shit?

What's he going to do, call the police?