I’m sure their private shareholders are absolutely thrilled with slave labor making them a few extra cents per share.
It’s insane what we allow people to do to people in the name of “just business” profiteering.
CEOs of the offenders at the time, and anyone who signed off on this, should go to prison. Instead, at most (and likely nothing at all), their companies will receive a fine far less than what they saved using slave labor, which means they’ll keep doing similar things.
Welp…
Money far beyond your material needs is power.
Power to alter entire governments and manipulate your own regulators, power to control others, the basis of grotesque corporate culture, it is a means, not an end.
Some use that power to buy news outlets and turn people into their ideological zombies, some use that power to build dynasties aka “foundations” out of vanity, and some use their power to “win” old grudges.
Bibi has sought power in the form of political office to do the last one. Allowing individuals to hold so much uniltateral power, be it in society warping levels of capital or political office without sufficient checks, is the mistake.
That’s what I have come to call the Paradox of Power. The ones most inclined and driven to seek power at any cost are almost always the last ones that should have it, and almost never have benevolent intent for that power, from a school bully who becomes a cop to a nepo baby who doesn’t like regulations on the family business becoming a Senator.
In his warped mind, Bibi fought for power to win a holy war, and that’s what he’s been doing. In his mind, he is chosen by God to secure the promised land from Godless animals. Religion sucks, whether one worships at the alter of Yahweh in his case, or Mammon in the capitalist’s case.
Widespread EMP could take out many satellites at once.
A nuclear detonation is just the only practical way to generate a giant one.
You can lay innumerable crimes against humanity against the capitalists, but they are ice cold sociopaths, not fascists. They are as incapable of hatred of the jewish people or Israel as they are of loving their own children as more than investments with an expectation of return.
Moody’s downgraded Israel on the numbers as a result of the global economic pullback caused by the logistical inconvenience of their ongoing genocide, not because of their persecution complex.
Local officials told public broadcaster NHK that the coast guard is unable to rescue the whales because the surrounding ice is too thick
Oh sure, but for a billionaire humanity will comb the oceans to rescue the goo that’s left of them from trying to show off.
A) That would take tax revenue for people that most voters sadly have almost no empathy for, despite most prisoners being products and victims of their society that were disenfranchised and driven into illegal activity out of desperation.
B) Voters largely, maliciously love the suffering of prison populations, because it provides the sweet, sweet dopamine drip of schadenfreude. Most people see schadenfreude about prisoners as entirely guilt free, even if they avoid feeling pleasure at the suffering of the poor and homeless.
People by and large fucking suck. They see prisoners as the “other,” despite them being desperate, struggling human beings and countrymen that usually needed help but received the opposite before having little to nothing left to lose.
Few other issues put the unvarnished cruelty of mankind on display like discussing how we should treat our prisoners. For every benevolent, enlightened person calling for mercy, compassion, and rehabilitation, there’s 10 bloodthirsty people screaming to turn the fucking screws on those BAAAAAAD people.
We did it Humanity!
Global oligarchs: these scammers are taking our jobs!!!
The market capitalist owners still profit directly off the pre-lliterate workforce pool it creates.
They just want to flex their power so they get it for free.
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As should charter schools, they’re a market capitalist trojan horse to give what little funding is left in public ed to the rich. Some may claim to be “non-profit” but they all hire publically traded, FOR PROFIT charter management corporations. They steal the funding from public schools with each student to line wall street profits. And many of them advertise proudly how they preach greedy conservative ideologies.
Challenger Charter Schools advertises in my area literally with a student saying he was taught “to want friends that can take care of themselves.” jfc
Pretty fake front end hiding the orphan crushing, for profit backend. The owner class uses charity and non-profit good will as just another vector for their con game.
This is the American enshittification we the US have been exporting since the Reagan giveaway to turn actual societies into piggy banks for the global rigged market capitalist owner class in their insatiable need for growth/metastasis, just as the US is. They only need a few people in the right positions to accept the faustian bargain of “You can live large, in decadence you’d never believe!.. All you have to do is betray your countrymen and let us exploit them without mercy.”
It works, sadly. There’s always a few ambitious wormtongues in the right places willing to stab their neighbors in the back to get into the little sociopath club. The UK has long since fallen to this bargain, the French are fighting, but losing.
I fear for the last shining beacon of civilization when the market capitalist oligarchs succeed in destroying the Nordic societies with our unrestrained greed disease, then they can declare “there’s no better way” without a prominent example to the contrary.
We’ve been knowingly on the path to self-destruction for half a century.
It’s just become increasingly difficult to engage in self-delusion about it as the consequences become apparent.
This is why I’m past hope.
“We like your style!”
That’s fine. Our trajectory is pretty well set anyway. We’ll keep insisting more growth/metastasis is the solution for the consequences of reckless growth/metastasis.
Have fun blaming everything except the root cause on the way down.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_propaganda
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
https://truthout.org/articles/pedagogy-for-profit-education-under-capitalism/
The capitalists own major media, the capitalists influence curriculum, as they’ve captured the state governments that set them, from K-Colleges of Economics to say “free market” capitalism is the only way kiddies. It indoctrinates millions of non-wealthy Americans to advocate against their own interests. Hi.
They use their power over government not only to deregulate their own industries for profit, but to defund social supports and then use their media to shriek “see how government doesn’t work?! Privatize everything!”
You can sing the praises of capitalism if you want, but capitalism not straight jacketed/draconianly regulated is a social blight that removes all humanity from society. A society shouldn’t be in service to an economy, an economy should be a lowly tool to distribute goods and services for the benefit of society.
Oh ok, so you acknowledge that humanity’s footprint needs to be systematically drastically reduced for the next several generations until we reach a number this planet can sustainably support, and we need to push to end the capitalist global economy that requires infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world with finite resources immediately, in favor of an economic model that revolves around homeostasis/equilibrium, which will require necessary draconian lifestyle changes on all of our parts, right?
For the record, I’m more than willing to. I’m hilariously outnumbered though.
Now go ahead and talk about “baby steps” in the face of accelerating temperature increases. Baby steps are steps that could have made an impact that reverberated into today’s consequences half a century ago when we knew about climate change but largely pretended we didn’t.
You call it doomerism, but I just don’t believe in self-deception to feel better.
The United States is the national embodiment of schadenfreude.
Mistakes/failures WILL be mocked and met with cruelty, unless of course you come from enough wealth to be bailed out, in which case you’re “so brave” and “aspirational” for putting yourself out there, trying new things, and learning from failure. Again, ONLY if you’re already wealthy, otherwise you deserve your suffering, and why aren’t you suffering more, you fuck up making bad decisons?! 🇺🇸