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  • tomiant@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldgenius
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    5 days ago

    Aerolord.

    I just realized we will probably have aerolords in a couple decades. I should invest in clean air and stockpile it. Maybe it’s my chance to be a lord. I’m going to need a compound, barbed wire, and machineguns too. Shit, it’s a lot of work being a lord. I think I’ll just pay for an air subscription.
















  • tomiant@piefed.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyzAdtech is not tech
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    8 days ago

    The thing is, as long as money rules the planet, everyone’s morality has a price. I think that’s what the thing about Judas meant to convey. Or Jesus fucking shit up in the temple, for that matter.

    I am a hardcore idealist. Would I help google for $100000K? No. Would I do it for a million? Uh. Would I do it for ten million? Yes. I can’t justify that other than saying that I would be able to do some extreme good for humanity with that money, start schools, bring people out of poverty, help research eco-friendly fuels, grant scholarships…

    But the problem will always remain- the people who have the money to grant me ten million will ultimately have the power to influence others to commit immoral acts, because that’s the power of money, and as long as money rules our societies, it means that those with the most money in the world will effectively be in power of the world, which is exactly what we see.

    I’m stating the obvious, I suppose, but it seems we are all so deep into the cult of capitalism that we take it for granted and don’t remind ourselves enough that the economic system that has usurped our democracies worldwide lies at the deepest core of our problems as a civilization, and they will not go away until we get rid of it and replace it with something far more equitable.

    We need revolution.