Loose fit for the community
SolarPUNK
Yes, which is why I’m not removing it, but generally this would fit a bit better in the political memes community.
Our members shouldn’t hesitate to participate outside of the slrpnk instance; the Lemmyverse is friendly.
Kinda but the vibe is right :D
Ratio also seems to fit ^^
They do sometimes raise children…
But have you seen oligarchs’ children?
Musk has a daughter that seems to have turned out okay, clearly they don’t all suck.
But the oligarchs sweep crumbs off their table for us! Surely if we put more food on their table there will be more crumbs for us!
They told us a rising tide lifts all boats. They didn’t tell us they’d strand us on the beach when the tide came in.
They created the system that requires the capital they just so happen to have in order to do anything and then act like we need them because of their Risk Taking Qualities™®©
As AI steals more and more jobs I’m really curious what the “I’m A Job Creator”™®©
lieargument is going to evolve into.They’ll use AI LLMs to summarize meetings, write emails and “advise” them on business decisions, all while still touting their importance despite automating what little work they still did.
I’d say they at least act as seat warmers, but you can buy one of those for a couple of bucks.
How can they be a seat warmer when theyre on a golf course the entire time theyre “working hard,”?
They’re warming the golf cart’s seat, of course! Can’t you see how hard they work, even on vacation?
My elderly father had this idea that “workers don’t know how to run the business”. I told him about all the idiotic things the management at my old job did over the advice of the people actually doing the work, and I think it made him think about it.
“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact. So don’t fuck with us.”
Thanks, I was about to quote it from memory. What a great, class conscious book/film
What’s it from?
Fight Club
But they do create!.. problems? We could be so boring without fighting them back! /s
They do create international child exploitation rings!
But it gets so boring without real stuff to do!
Let them have something /s
Yeah, but they figured out a loophole in the system that allows them to stack dollars for no real reason. That has to count for
somethingeverythingNot a loophole, it’s how the system is built. Publicly owned for-profit companies legally cannot perform actions that can be perceived as hurting their profits, such as raising wages or lowering prices to benefit workers/customers. Shareholder primacy. Executives are employed by the shareholders & owe workers nothing other than what the government mandates.
I’ve been thinking of this lately. Do bureaucrats even add anything to society? They’re usually there as a way to make sure tax payer money is spent “efficiently” but in a capitalist society they seem to be there to prevent taxpayers from getting assistance? Genuine question.
Vague quote:
You the people have the power! The power to create happiness!.. As long as men die, liberty will never perish
I really wish I could have seen Charlie in person. Alas, it won’t happen. But I do carry some of his flame in my heart
You know what else they can’t do?
Vote.Yeah, but you know what they can do? Select the representatives we’re allowed to vote for.
