#capitalism Timeline

257d

Color me surprised.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/

New Scientist

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
By Donna Lu

6 May 2020

Finland’s universal basic income study has revealed that the programme doesn’t seem to discourage people from working

Michael Brooks / Alamy

169d

Having worked at the big companies, like #Amazon and #Google (so glad to be done with them), this is something I've heard, seen, and felt.
If companies can dole out bonuses to themselves, they definitely can pay us more. #Capitalism is hurting working people, but we hold the power & fill their pockets ✊🏼 #UniteAndFightBack #GeneralStrike

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(Pure) capitalism is an economic system with division of labor and private ownership (not only of the means of production, but) of all human property, including the means of production, consumer goods, and man himself and products of his labor. The logical and economic consequence of such a preposition is that capitalism is naturally beneficial not only for capitalists and entrepreneurs, but for everyone, for all the people in society.
#capitalism #statism #economics #science

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12d

Everything maga hates, in one convenient place...

#CivilRights #HumanRights #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomOfReligion #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LGBTQ #Abortion #Contraception #Capitalism #Racism #WhiteNationalism #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #ClimateCrisis #Immigration #Healthcare #WomensRights #Science #History

An American Flag graphic with the following words superimposed:
In the blue starry field: Inconvenient Truths: Facts don't care what you believe.

On the red and white stripes, in order:
Racism is ignorant and based on lies.
Housing, Utilities, Food/Water, and Healthcare are BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, not opportunities to profiteer.
Being LGBTQ is an innate biological reality, not a choice. Real Science doesn't care about your myths.
All Spiritual Paths are Equally Valid. There is no "one true" religion.
If you don't want accurate history taught because it makes your religion or culture look bad, that's because it was bad - and needs to be taught.
Women are not property or livestock. Women have an absolute right to an abortion and contraception. Mind your own business.
If your business can't pay living wages to your employees, you are cosplaying "business owner' and you deserve to go out of business.
Climate collapse IS HAPPENING and is going to wreck the economy & make the planet largely uninhabitable, and YOU are responsible for changing your lifestyle to stop it.

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162d

"Can't afford food?, blame it on billionaires not immigrants"

#poverty #capitalism #inflation

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For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them

"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them

#AI #aipocalypse #capitalism #jobs #labor

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299d

To understand the egregious toxicity of billionaires (Charles Koch particularly)

contemporary conservatism
politics (political capture)
legislation
judiciary
lobbying
deregulation
libertarianism
erosion of social programs;
erosion of public education (school vouchers)
anti-feminism; ...

read (in order)

Jane Mayer, Dark Money (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)

Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains

Get them online or your local library

#Koch #evil #capitalism #GOP

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241d

https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistsmemes/comments/1fgm288/poor_guy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

#capitalism #anticapitalism #communism #socialism

A reddit post that says, "My wife has cancer, it took 5 months to wipe out 20 years of life savings and that was with insurance. The experience has turned me into a hateful, bitter person. We did everything we were told. We went to college, got degrees, avoided credit card debt, spent wisely, saved a nice chunk of money in savings accounts and retirement accounts and minded our own business. The USA healthcare system took all of our savings and retirement and forced us to refinance our house so that we lost 15 years of equity. This is a country I'm supposed to be proud of? I hate this system and anyone that defends it." This post is from a person called "binkybrain."

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275d

https://youtu.be/Ys1Pc0WtNfk

https://www.reddit.com/r/DankLeft/comments/1ephaax/we_need_to_worry_our_own_homeless_people/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

#communism #socialism #capitalism #homelessness #poverty

An image of a capitalist pig looking at a full boat of migrants trying to immigrate to America. The capitalist pig says to them, "We need to worry about our own homeless. We can't take any more people."

Below, the same capitalist pig is looking at a bunch of homeless people sleeping on a dirty floor. The capitalist pig says to them, "Get a job, you lazy fucks!"

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240d

#capitalism #anticapitalism #communism #socialism #competition

The words "Competition in theory" above two muscular men wearing top hats. One of them says, "I produce higher quality goods than you for the same price." The other man responds by saying, "Then I have no choice but to increase the quality of my goods."

Below this image are the words "Competition in practice" above the images of two pigs dressed in old-fashioned suits and top hats. One of the pigs says, "See these identical cartons of milk? There used to be 1 liter, but now there is 0.9 liters for the same price." The other pig responds by saying, "Then I'm going to dillute my milk with water."

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226d

Wealth isn't a sign of a virtue and poverty isn't a moral failing.

#capitalism #meritocracy #neoptism #GenerationalWealth #poverty

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219d

#capitalism #anticapitalism #privatizedhealthcare #communism #socialism

"So you wouldn't serve your country?"

Dude, if I got an infected cut and didn't have $10,000, this country would be all, "Oh, that sucks have fun dying, lol!"

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119d

#Hypercapitalism is the *observed* destruction of life and planet.

#Capitalism is the *pretense* that it is all alright.

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83d

Five of the greatest men to ever live!
Long live Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought!
#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism

An image of (from left to right) Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong looking to the left. There is text in Chinese that, when translated to English, says, "Long live Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought!"

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97d

[thread] Resisting Trump2/GOP fascism

#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy #extremism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism

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75d

If you live in America, print out copies of this image and give them out to people in your community, put them up on street poles, and leave them in places for people to take. The time for the working class of America to organize is now!

#socialism #communism #capitalism #anticapitalism #anticapitalist

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特朗普试图通过残暴的关税来实现美国的再工业化。
他的计划很可能会彻底失败。尽管现在还不能确定，但事情绝对不是这些天里人们所谈论的那样 …

🧬纸条更新：《回复关于关税 - 粉黑纠缠蒙蔽了整个反动时代》https://iyouport.notion.site/1cc34ca2d46d80b7b7a7c21eb45ec839

#特朗普 #反动 #全球化 #资本主义 #自主 #自由主义 #直接民主 #无政府主义 #代议制 #关税 #贸易战 #地缘政治 #Trump #reactionary #globalization #capitalism #autonomy #libertarianism #directdemocracy #anarchism #representation #tariffs #tradewar #geopolitics

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32d

Reading Marx is like unearthing the Necronomicon in a university library, a forbidden text that lays bare capitalism's inner workings.

But the true horror lies in realizing you're surrounded by people who treat exploitation as 'just how things work.' Suddenly the world reveals itself as a self-sustaining asylum, where the so-called 'rational' diligently reproduce the madness of the system.

#capitalism #socialism #marxism

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