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#TIL I learned via refashionedhippie that there exists in this world a company called "Azature," which makes a nail polish that sells for $250,000.00 per bottle. It's made from 267 carats of black diamonds.

A quarter of a million dollars.
For a mediocre effect I could achieve for less than $20 at the corner drugstore.

And that right there encapsulates the reasons why billionaires should not exist and #capitalism is bad for humans.

https://youtube.com/shorts/QnkH98pmHNk?si=tc0R2KygzWsQvkLZ

#TaxTheRich
#CapitalismIsEvil

@Dio9sys
Corporate US want for profit concentration camps.

Improving the life of the homeless especially homeless veterans is too socialist

#capitalismisevil
#uspoli

#KillingAmericansForProfit
#CapitalismIsEvil

https://youtu.be/WrAoE0FEzc4?si=Il1asUkIdnR8E299

I tried to temper everyone’s excitement about him and people were angry with me for being realistic about him and his future path. I don’t enjoy being correct about these things, but I more often than not am, and I wish people wouldn’t dismiss me just because they don’t *like* what I’m saying.

#mamdani #realist #reality #leftist #anticolonialism #capitalismisevil

Kshama Sawant @cmkshama Follow . Zohran Mamdani has hired Jeffrey Lerner, a former political director of the Democratic National Committee, to serve as his new communications director. Some on the left are saying that this does not necessarily mean anything bad, and that Mamdani may be trying to beat the Democratic establishment at their own game. The idea that building links with entrenched Democratic Party officials can somehow work in the interest of workers has been disproved many many times over. Rather than have such illusions, the working people and the labor movement need to break from the Democratic Party and build a new party for the working class. Towards that, we need independent fighting campaigns with candidates who will not only run on concrete demands, but also be clear that their task is to build mass movements and expose the rottenness of both the parties of genocide and the billionaire class, not to make alliances with either of them. In 2007, Jeffrey Lerner worked as communications director for then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Lerner served as political director for the Democratic National Committee during President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign after working as White House Southern political director during the first two years of the Obama administration.

Lerner served as political director for the Democratic National Committee during President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign after working as White House Southern political director during the first two years of the Obama administration. In 2013, Jeffrey Lerner joined the DKC public relations firm, whose corporate clients include BMW, Aironb, Bloomberg, and Melia Hotels (one of the world's largest hotel chains). In 2023 and 2024, Lerner worked as senior advisor to California Democratic Senator Laphonza Butler. Butler is a past president of SEIU California, and close supporter and confidant of Kamala Harris. After SEIU, Butler worked as a high-powered consultant for Uber in 2019 at a time when the company was attempting to defeat the statewide bill to give employee status to Uber drivers — she was part of meetings where Uber was trying to strong-arm the unions. After Uber, Butler then became a director of public policy for Aironb. Both the Uber and Aironb jobs gave Butler hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in salary, plus at least $1 million in Airbnb stock. Lerner's whole history speaks volumes about which side he's on - the bosses and the billionaires. Mamdani should be bringing working-class fighters and socialists into his campaign to build fighting mass movements, not hiring enemies of the working class.

From 2023: Alone and Exploited, #Migrant #Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate #ChildLabor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like #Cheetos and #FruitOfTheLoom.

By Hannah Dreier
Photographs by Kirsten Luce

Hannah Dreier traveled to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia for this story and spoke to more than 100 migrant child workers in 20 states.

Published Feb. 25, 2023

Read more [CW - contains graphic descriptions]:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html

Archived version [is missing some of the photographs]:
https://archive.ph/Ed8El

#ChildLaborLaws #ImmigrantChildren #Exploitation #CapitalismIsEvil

Many years ago, after studying many religions, Carl Jung, and philosophy, I came up with the definition of "good" and "evil".

"Good" is what connects us to God / #Nature / Each Other.

"Evil" is that which separates us from God / Nature / Each Other.

It's that simple folks! Seriously!!!

#CarlJung #Philosophy #GoodVersusEvil #GodIsNature #Tolerance #Kindness #EarthIsEden #CapitalismIsEvil #GreedIsEvil

A bridge leading to a divided scene. One side has water, clouds, and a tree with green leaves. The other side has hazy skies, desert and dead tree branches.

And this is not even going into how it's the cause of the climate crisis as well.

This is not sustainable.

#capitalism #capitalismIsEvil #fuckCapitalism

I'm only one chapter in to Chokepoint Capitalism and I'm already depressed and furious.

I mean, it's not what I didn't already know on some level, but seeing it spelled out...

🤬 🤬 🤬

#capitalism #capitalismIsEvil #ChokepointCapitalism #books #nowReading

A hardcover library book with a bright yellow cover sitting on a black table, with a blue placement behind it, notebook, fountain pen, glasses next to it, other library books and a DVD case above it.

The book is "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back"

By Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

@nickastodon @msquebanh

Ditto! I mean, I was already very open and alternative, but being part of this community has helped me be even MORE so.

When they arrest me for helping to destroy the #capitalist power structure, I'll blame it all on #mastodon...

#climateCrisis #capitalismIsEvil #capitalism #justice

Is this ChatGPT:

“This request was denied because you did not meet the following clinical requirements.

“The requested medication and/or diagnosis are not a covered benefit and excluded from coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of your plan benefit. Therefore, the request has been administratively denied.

“The requested medication and/or diagnosis are not a covered benefit and are excluded from coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of your plan benefit. Therefore, this request has been administratively denied.

“The reason(s) Optum Rx did not approve this medication can be found above. This denial is based on our Daytrana drug coverage policy, in addition to any supplementary information you or your prescriber may have submitted.”

This is an exact quote from a letter we received today, including the almost exactly repeated middle paragraphs. Nothing within the passage has been omitted.

There really is no there there.

#InsuranceIsAScam
#CapitalismIsEvil
#ChatGPTDanger

Without batting an eye, once again the government will bail out financial entities for bad decisions that could have been avoided, while we can't even get predatory student loans forgiven #CapitalismIsEvil #Bailouts #StudentLoans #SVBank #FinancialCrisis

Capitalism's end game is to exploit us from cradle to grave #CapitalismIsEvil #RestIsResistance

Screenshot of People.com article with a photo of slaughterhouse workers titled "Slaughterhouse cleaning firm fined after officials say more than 100 children worked dangerous jobs"

Screenshot from MarketWatch article with a photo of an old woman titled "'I will work until I die' -- I'm 74, have little money saved and battle medical issues. 'I want to retire...'"

@RandomInputs Well, we (as a society) USED to be concerned with the well being of future generations. That's no longer the case. Everything seems to be driven by a profit motive. #CapitalismIsEvil.

#CapitalismIsEvil

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