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let that sink in....

wow millennials are glued to their i-phones and laptops so much they cant even be bothered robbing in person anymore!!! maybe these trust fund babies should stop phishing credit cards while sitting on their butts and go out there and put some elbow grease into their thievery!

There are too many monster fuckers and not enough monsters. Something about supply and demand and the capitalism of monster fucking ??

And possibly the most important one that explains the rest

Happy July 5th

So I need to take a leave tmrw because I legit got SqUiShEd during train transit omw to my home ... But the feeling of me cheating the system somehow because I am not immediately well and working , on a job that ISN'T paying me is going to be immense tomorrow .. even if I'm on a well deserved bed rest ... capitalism sucks hard 😣

Everything that I read about on Instagram regarding solving 'problems' that are supposedly plaguing my country , people seem to have simplified the process - pay the price. Raise funds , then you get to talk about your choice of problem or charity. Not any discussion on how the problem is genuinely complex , nor any acknowledgement of the fact that there is no actual action on how are people supposed to tackle it. Just because you have funds to spare and means to be charitable does NOT mean you grasp the reality of it ! Read something so relatable in a long long time regarding this which is so true , so close to the actuality of situation and ofc it is on this hellsite. Kudos 👍

“Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week. You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30. Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.” If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider. But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable. I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know. If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems. There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.””

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“The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems” by Courtney Martin

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Capitalism can’t save the world, but it can simulate the experience and sell it to you.

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sometimes i read posts on this site, and i think that this whole capitalism == bad phenomenon started recently. but then i read this poem.

Little Boxes

by Malvina Reynolds

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same, And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and business executives And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry, And they all have pretty children and the children go to school And the children go to summer camp and then to the university Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

and it's from the 1950s.

Capitalism was always awful; we just aren't prosecuting every single person who voices criticisms of it.