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Probably not, because gestures broadly at everything

Exactly like that. Sadly so. As if making money is only possible if you’re a soulless piece of shit that would sell their own kid for 5 moneyz.

Disgusting…

But the wealthier get wealthier on profits they could share with their workers

Not everyone is that bad though. I shared with every employee. Everyone had a part in profits and a saying in procedure. Even the cleaning staff. Working time was just “on paper”, everyone could come and go as they pleased (as long as agreed upon work was done). It wasn’t even legal (how crazy is that…), but noone ratted me out 😁

My point? It’s possible AND feasible. It’s just greed that destroys everyone and Everything.

About the only job sectors actively recruiting are the NHS (primarily nurses), STEM teachers (primary/secondary), retail, and hospitality.

Same here (Germany) too. As far as I can judge from the “outside” though (never really worked).

Though the average salary of nurses went really up here, including many benefits never before seen. Just because noone wants it anymore. Shitty times, ungrateful horrible customers etc.

I get that. But still…don’t people inform themselves strongly before even thinking of emigrating? Even if one lives in a shithole and wants change?

I grew up (genx) when there still was the american dream. And it seemed real. But for the last 20yrs that faded into a dystopian nightmare.

But even whites need some millions to survive in that dystopian shit hole. I have more money than I would ever need but would feel too poor to emigrate there…

Who wants to emigrate exactly there? I couldn’t think of one solid reason.

Really? And I thought capitalism gets better and better each year for the common people. Because, you know, higher productivity and progress and such.

/s…just incase

Yup. But it doesn’t have to be. This species just sucks :)

Wouldn’t say that. There is more to humanity than dystopian capitalist fantasies. I, e.g., work for free to help people. You might do too, if you got what YOU need from others. But yeah, not gonna happen. The vast majority of people will always stay slaves, they just don’t really realize it (yet).

My toast falling onto the carpet with the jelly side first? Capitalism.

Joke aside, yes. But this time it’s a clear enemy called AI. So people have something to blame, while evading the real culprit.

Weird indeed. It should not. My deleted usually appear as such

Lol…it’s just there. It still is. At least for me

Well, you obviously speak for the USA. And despite things like thermal cutoffs or automatic shutoffs, things were pretty safe here (Germany) in the 60-90s.

Also, there is a difference between general advancements in safety regulations and putting tons of unnecessary features in a device that will break soon. No Tesla of today will probably still be going in 50yrs or after 500.000km.

The higher the complexity, the higher the chance of failure.

And on top of it, there was no “planned obsolescence” or even suicides switches built in. Bad for capitalism, good for people.

Not quite. The lesser the complexity, the longer the life. Even if both use the same cheap hardware to begin with. More systems => more areas where it could fail and eventually will.

And don’t forget planned obsolescence. That was no thing back in the days.

And tiktok…and fuckbook and x and y and however all the cancer is called. Where can I sign?

We need more people like you.

Exactly. I guess it’s because procreation is our only biological reason. And if you don’t play along you’d look like a worker-bee that doesn’t work (in every layer of that word).

I hear you about family, but I just broke with every idiot. My opinion (because it deviates too much from what is allowed in “free speech”) was always belittled, but if they need money, they all know where to find me. Well…knew 😁

Yup, couldn’t have said it more cynical. Kids are shat in this world my parent’s gen (boomer) already paved the way for destruction, that my gen followed nicely. Millenials had it really shitty and I don’t wann see the future of the newest generations.

It always gets me thinking that we need 2k in cost and many many hours of training and learning to be allowed to drive a car. But every Joe and Jane can procreate even if they’re dumb AND poor. No license needed. Just go ahead make as many cute babies as you want.

Yup exactly. All that money (and time, good lord the time!) sunk into lil brats could well be spend elsewhere. FOSS indeed! We also donate a lot and work for free at homeless shelters and such.

But most people prefer to keep running away from thinking by allocating 101% of time to everything but themselves. Jobs, kids, pets…

And this caretaker-for-when-i-am-old…it’s not only disgusting but also too risky. And with all that money sunk into those kids I could buy people who’d take care of me.

No thanks. I prefer aaaallll the money and time to wifey and myself. We enjoy our hobbies, travel the world, do what we want the whole day long, every day. That’s freedom.

Why would we want kids? And even if, we weren’t rich enough to put kids into this dumpster-fire…