[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is already how it is. Our public schools are underfunded to the point of being useless. The lack of quality public education is how you end up with this many idiots voting for trump in the first place.

That, and religious indoctrination destroying any chance they had at developing critical thinking skills.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

It hasn't been a left wing vote for a long time, if ever.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I earn money by working

But do you earn enough? Does the working class earn enough? The general consensus for most people is no. The vast majority of wealth that the working class produces every year does not make it into the hands of the people who produced it, but rather the oligarchs who already possess most of the wealth already.

I can spend my money on what I want, and can start a business if I wanted to.

These are not exclusive to only capitalism. People were trading money for goods and starting businesses for thousands of years before capitalism was around.

The best businesses are rewarded with more money while poor businesses fail.

This is how it's supposed to work in a merit driven free market economy, but that's not how late stage capitalism plays out.

Many corporations are run by imbeciles and hemorrhage money, pursue short term profits at the expense of long term sustainability, treat their workers horribly, and rely on their monopolistic position in the market to survive rather than merit, competence, ethics, or quality. When they finally make an error that would normally bankrupt a company out of existence, they simply cry to the government for bailout money, and they get it every time because our politicians are bought and owned by billionaires and their lobbyists. This is the core principle of an oligarchy, which we are, and which capitalism always evolves into given enough time.

The rich get bailouts, the workers do not. This is a direct product of wealth inequality and regulatory capture that capitalism inherently generates.

The main argument against capitalism is that it leads to only a privileged few getting all the wealth, opportunities and freedom while the rest become wage slaves and debt slaves. It is the ultimate capitulation to artificial scarcity as if that's somehow the best we can do as a species.

All the homelessness, overpriced healthcare and education, unaffordable housing, etc exists because of capitalism and it's supporters look at this and say "good. fuck the poor." or "this is the best we can do."

I stopped being a libertarian because I was tired of the cynical capitulation.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

I just stopped shopping at amazon altogether. My online shopping experience has improved a lot since then.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

Conspiracy theorists aren't actually truth seekers. They're not out to discover the truth. They want to proclaim the truth and feel like special people who have hidden knowledge so they can feel superior. It's all about their ego, their sense of security, and nothing else.

All of this stuff is out in the open for all to see so the theorist nut jobs don't get to feel special by trying to expose it.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

It is supported in the nightly build and full support is in the works currently.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/hevc-support/idc-p/63424/highlight/true#M36557

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago

The whole problem with companies like Amazon is that hardly anyone in charge of them seems to care about long term sustainability. They all just invest enough effort to squeeze out some short term profits, earn their bonuses and then leave for another company to do it all again. Nobody is interested in sustainability because there is no incentive to. They're playing hot potato with the collapse of the company.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 309 points 1 month ago

Now they can replace them without paying unemployment and pay the new workers a lower wage. This is what they wanted to happen. Mega corporations are a problem we need to solve as a society.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

corporations are a problem we need to solve as a society.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they're the most profitable demographic to market to.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump and his followers are truth proclaimers, not truth seekers. They believe truth is dictated by consensus, volume, devotion, etc because that's what their religion and their narcissistic delusions teach them. Everyone else knows that truth is something to be analyzed and determined, not proclaimed.

So in general, yeah it's a waste of time paying attention to what their reaction is. They're a predictable bunch.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

You can see every moment a senior dev went to management and asked for time or money to develop a certain type of interaction and were told no every single time.

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