The pineapples thing is a reference to undercosted exports from global south countries which are a good example of a way that workers in the imperial core benefit. I'm using this example since it points to rising food costs, which show where the exploited wealth actually goes. You can also contrast the cost reductions of imperialism (which are being yanked back pretty severely) with the financialization of the lives of workers on top of increasing hardships.

Nobody in their right mind would care if pineapples were $11 if they got paid more, or had at least a thousand more dollars a month from socialized housing and medicine rather than this bloodsucking insanity, nobody wants food picked by wage slaves who get treated like shit, as evidenced by where most people spend their money at the grocery store when they have more of it (healthier and more ethical choices).

I am also deliberately using different terms for high/low income countries interchangeably.

Right I'm saying the people who believe in that shit are the people in a position to profit off exploitation of migrant workers by contracting their work out or employing them in shitty conditions and some people who have their imaginary class position that's associated with being a "PMC"

It's surprising certain people are so hostile to the discussion of financialization in the core countries and assume this is some kind of Proudhonist simping for industrialists. (Was Mao simping for the national bourgeoisie when he conscripted them to the anti-imperialist struggle? Just a short detour.) This is not about the exploitation of industrialists, nobody is crying for them, this is about the competition between industrialists and the FIRE sector to exploit labor. It presents an opportunity in third world countries because contradictions are starker following covid 19 and the sanctions on Russia. I hope Biden sanctions Iran. Do it you old bastard. I dare you

It really resolves the whole question of why Americans can be some of the richest people in the world, make the highest wages, and give it all up to the system and die, when you see stuff like JP Morgan Chase making 80% of its income from mortgages. This site is one of the best places to find discussion of this despite the occasional outbursts of idealism. Don't we all joke about where the money of the top 10% Americans gets wasted? Gotta finance another SUV! We need real analysis not tweets and literary references. Yes, small proprietors are evil, they grab people's asses, they talk shit for no reason, but it is a fact that they are screwed by financialization, by suppliers raising prices in "anticipation of rising costs". It seems like some people are looking for reasons to avoid any coalition with anyone rather than actually looking at the contradictions.

For most people, imo they're inundated with fear, not the American Dream. I think their uncertain precarity makes some dude who only knows how to post screenshots of Engels and imply they're relevant talking down to them about how they believe in propaganda because it makes them feel better about being a pampered westoid v unlikely to produce any success.

It's completely misunderstanding US inequality to assume these things. People are in fact pissed and not living the dream. Look around.

I leave the room because of the smell.

Valve still makes money off TF2 through passive financialization in the game's cosmetic/sidegrade microtransactions. Having a snappy feel to an old game is important. I would rightfully expect a game from 2007 to have perfect performance even if I have other stuff open.

It's a poor description of a rage comic sorry I think Drew Pavlou posted it 💀

Finally someone asking real questions about this 2+ month-old beef

i'm not sure i'm following but i just wanted to say that i am a boy cat

It kind of pisses me off how people treat kids having stomach trouble as some kind of inevitability. It doesn't need to be that inevtable or severe. I think kids are particularly vulnerable to this too and yet we dumb insane amount of sugar and industrial preservatives and anti-microbials that fall short of antibiotics and plasticizers into their bodies when it's going to disproportionately affect their mental development. The only solutions most people have are woo-woo and Psychology Today, at this point I cannot tell which has worse results.

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I fear even radlib realism may be too late

It's wild, but I can't bring myself to trust anyone with the vlogger aesthetic