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@Janet3/13/2023, 9:26 AM

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Ellen: a bitey creature!@YoteDragon3/7/2023, 12:21 AM

I hate politics.

"So don't talk about politics."

No, you don't understand, I want to destroy the power structures that allow politics as we know them to exist.

Andréa, Canis Lanonbinary @CERESUltra3/7/2023, 4:31 PM

The simple fact of it is, 99% of us who talk politics or get involved don't want to, we have to. Any number of us wish we didn't have to worry, could live a life uninvolved, to just go about every day of a normal life. We do it because it's a matter of survival and there is no other choice. We have to dismantle the machine that seeks to destroy us.

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Noxulous of Fyth @Noxulous3/13/2023, 1:13 PM

Ooo boy don't let a capitalist hear you say that, they all think capitalism makes people more productive and less lazy, despite the abundance of evidence :P

@SpaceWizard3/16/2023, 2:02 PM

Well it's more an issue that without being able to pay someone to do something for us... everyone would have to do everything for themselves, which means that no one would be able to specialize, which would eventually result in a real shortage of subject matter experts.

Paying someone else to fix your dishwasher doesn't mean you're lazy, buying a burger doesn't mean you're lazy, it just means you spent your time doing something other than learning how to make a good burger or fix a dishwasher.

If anything, the whole idea that this kind of "outsourcing" is lazy is just shaming the people who actually work and study for a living and don't have time to handle everything in their lives themselves. I would LOVE to have the time to cook for myself every day, to grow my own vegetables, to learn how to fix everything in my home and so on. But being that I am on the bottom tier of the capitalist shitlist, that's not an option.

You know who DOES have the time for hobbies like that? The independently wealthy landowners. The people who exploit the system most.

@Janet3/16/2023, 2:20 PM

You know who DOES have the time for hobbies like that? The independently wealthy landowners. The people who exploit the system most.

yes, of course i know that.

i wrote what i wrote not to "shame people who actually work [...]" as you say, but to lament the lost time one has to spend elsewhere, doing other peoples' bidding.

the people who "have the time for hobbies like that" are the ones i call out as being lazy. and it's not just landowners. land means squat nowadays, IP is the new land. or was and is being replaced in its importance by the next generation of capitalist grifters with "userbase" or perhaps personal data. and the AI gang is doing their own thing, creating "land" for themself, just like the NFT mafia did with the blockchain after the blockchain was already kinda being squatted on by the miners. fucking cabbage patch kids and baseballcards.

no matter where you look, "resources", real or not, useful or not, are being hoarded and people are told they need these "vital" resources YESTERDAY and then coerced to pay for using them.

i've got the feeling someone was hoping to actually make money with clean air at some point. seriously: i bet you a buck, someone was having wet dreams over the fucking movie "space balls"