'The fuck" is now “what the sigma” at least that’s what I gathered from lurking on shitposting communities

Edit: and I’m deeply afraid of using it around people who don’t know what that means. And also around people who do know what it means.

I will never be able to read a sentence starting like that without Gabe yelling at andy as my inner voice

Now that’s something I’m gonna save. And pray that you’re not an agent trying to spread misinformation

Or just 10 billion into the school system? Please? Anything?

If I ever come home to 2.3 kids I’m gonna be so mad. Where is the 0.7 kids I’m missing?!

Dicks Out for harambe is a thing

Yeah but the goal here is to escape the algorithm deciding what you consume

Yeah pixels are great in that regard. But they are flagship phones with latest and greatest hardware costing a ton of money.

Also, I absolutely do not need the newest shiniest hardware. I want something that can handle WhatsApp/Signal encryption. YouTube playback would be nice, doesn’t need to be 1080, 720p is absolutely enough on a phone. And frigging security updates for more than a few years. Can we please figure this shit out.

Covfefe anyone?

Archenemy: There’s a reason to believe

The pruld: We are the souls

Emmit Fenn: painting greys

It doesn’t tell me to go acquire wages so it’s arguably even better!

Do have any idea about the engineering required to remove all of the bloat?!

/s

Didn’t say I do have that faith. Just saying what I think would be necessary for large scale positive change.

I mean, yeah but have you seen…

Gestures broadly

… The state of things? We need to stand up as a people

I’m all for changing the structures that enable scalpers in the first place but that too requires agreement and action of many many people. So if we can’t even do that for something relatively small like tickets to concerts I doubt we’ll be able to change the system in general

You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

Yes, that’s what “If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers” would achieve. I get that that isn’t going to happen but it is still our collective fault.

If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers the ticket sellers would have a real incentive to do something against the scalpers. Right now they don’t have to care.

I agree that “just don’t buy it” is not that easy for culture in general, it could be applied to hypermonetized events.

I’m not sure I get your second point. How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?

Yes the workers are generally poorer than the investors. But that’s not the point here, the point is that it’s in its essence an unfair system where you are forced to work for someone else’s profit unless you are wealthy enough to yourself be an investor that can live from their investments returns.

Getting monetary benefits should come from work and not ownership.

Again, this isn’t really about low or high wages it’s about the extraction of money from the workers towards owners without any work being done by the owners.

The common image people conjure to justify this are the small shops built by someone and then being employing some staff. You must realize though that that isn’t the biggest chunk of wealth and not the really problematic part of the system.

The biggest chunk of wealth is concentrated on a few percent of the population and it’s mostly inherited not built up by themselves. And it’s here where we actually see wealth being extracted from the workers.