Of course he is, they always do.

The Paper Billionaire Argument

Wealth shown to scale

Oh, I was just making an observation, I’m definitely with you on this, a proper block would be much better,.

Not defending xitter, but that’s exactly how it works on lemmy, isn’t it? If I block someone I don’t see them anymore but they can still see and reply to me.

We also have a tendency to allow only sociopaths and psychopaths to lead us, and we gotta nip that in the bud, but most people who aren’t like that don’t want to lead.

I wouldn’t say “allow”, but either way, you’ve hit the core issue there on both counts - leaders. Hierarchy creates inequality, it’s just how it works. It’s why any cult of personality is dangerous and bound to maintain an imbalance.

This mostly focuses on management in the workplace, but applies just as much to leadership rolls in general: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/colin-jenkins-deconstructing-hierarchies-on-the-paradox-of-contrived-leadership-and-arbitrary-p

Sure, but they shouldn’t be publishing this garbage either.

Sounds good at a glance, but when you look at the way he reaches that conclusion (that the threat of hunger is the only reason people are willing to work), and his solution (for a class of “intellectuals” like him to take charge) however, are just neoliberal swill…

OP really should have just linked the article:

https://fee.org/articles/un-deletes-article-titled-the-benefits-of-world-hunger-was-it-real-or-satire/

Why my parents thought putting an extremely anxious child around such extremely anxious, large animals was a good idea is beyond me (I know horses help a lot of people, but I didn’t ask or want to be there and the horses clearly picked up on that and didn’t want me on or near them)

Autism helps (I’ve done shit like that, especially when I was younger. If I need to know something, I ask ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😂)

And if you’re Black - get shot for “talking back”

I can understand that in some countries cops can be seen as criminals (and are behaving like criminals), but I don’t think a generality should be made. Just like a generality shouldn’t be made about people from an origin all doing the same bad thing.

ACAB, and you don’t get to compare your chosen profession to where people were born or the colour of their skin, nor try to claim victim points by pretending you are systemically oppressed and discriminated against in the same way we are (though your trying to does go to strengthen my first point).

Fuck you, pig.

I’m not happy about it and I’d like to change it (and when we have real primaries I’ve tried), but that’s where it’s at.

If you’re still pinning your hopes on electoral politics achieving meaningful change, you don’t really get it at all.

I would really like for karma to be real

It isn’t, and things will never change as long as people pin their hopes on the higher power of their choosing to make things right instead of taking action to make sure it does (if you live locally and are able, go protest at this guy’s fucking house, if you’re not, donate to a fund made by locals taking action against him. Support organisations like the innocence project, if you have a prison local to you, see if there is anyone in it who is wrongly imprisoned and could use the support, the options are endless, and every single one will do more than hoping “karma” does its thing).

I get that you don’t mean any malice, but this kind of thinking is as effective as “thoughts and prayers”.

Exactly, which is why I usually just block and move on, I’ve wasted far too much of my time and energy on these types in the past.

This thread has made me hungry, I’m glad I have dinner in the oven (it’s rice, not to worry! 😂)

Turns out AI is already fucking up mushroom images, so making a positive identification is only going to become more difficult.

Not only scoff at the idea, but often discount it as completely invalid because while pointing out the flaws of our current system you didn’t also spoon feed them years worth of theory breaking down all of the potential new systems and produce a dissertation for them detailing every single step from pre to post revolution.

They never look any of these things up themselves of course, because they don’t actually care, they’re probably just comfortable enough under the current system to believe that they have no personal reason to fight it, and don’t like their cognitive dissonance being challenged so making up reasons not to listen or really make any effort at all is easier.

A system is what it does, don’t let the deliberate misnomer fool you.

We could elect people changing the system and there is nothing the 2k people could do…The reason the billionaires have so much power and protection is because a lot of people side with them and the system they support.

which one of your two options is offering to change the system? Who owns the media that propagandises the masses not to support such change because “cOMmUnISm” and instead be bombarded with “aspirational” content designed (at the cost of trillions of dollars) to make us overconsume? (E: depending on where you live there could of course be more than two options, but I guarantee none of the top contenders are there to change the system, those who do aim to, get slandered by the media long before they get to a position where they’re a serious threat to the status quo)

what we need to do is change the companies and the way to do that is legislation.

Who is legislating? And who do they actually serve (see above)

not a single billionaire yet still horrible pollution. Billionaires don’t cause pollution, people do.

Lmfao. It isn’t poor people who wage and fund war that leaves more poverty and destruction for them, and billions for those calling the shots. The fact that in one place at one time the people making the money weren’t local doesn’t change that.

Billionaires don’t cause pollution, people do.

Billionaires are people, people who use their vast power and money to maintain a system that is and always has been rigged in their favour, and that is designed to keep you trapped, along with the rest of us.