Bazzatron

joined 1 year ago
[–] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Fun fact - those are not entirely unrelated entities.

[–] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago

Capitalism rewards exploitation.

You've probably heard "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism" - and historically speaking, and in my experience, this holds to be true. I couldn't be typing this on my glass god rectangle if there weren't some children in a cobalt mine somewhere - at some rung on the ladder, people are dying, because where's the incentive to lift others out of poverty? Why would any capitalist elevate their source of cheap labour and materials out of the blood and sand?

There's also the interaction we have between the capitalist and socialist aspects of our society - for instance nationalised healthcare cannot be administered by capitalists because there is no incentive for the system to function for the good of the patients, but eventually the system will be optimised out of existence (by which I mean, broken into smaller units for budgetary reasons, small units degraded continually until they are canned, and the whole system is sunset because of "sound economic decisions").

Capitalism is the antithesis of what I think any reasonable person wants in society save for those with an amount of blood on their hands. Capitalism is a Mad Max dystopia where a handful of people live as deities whilst the rest of us kill each other in the streets for scraps.

Capitalism might have seemed viable when everyone was suffering from lead poisoning, but it's killing us today, and I support any means to remove this cancer and push for a more equitable life for everyone.

[–] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've never had a car with a touch screen or whatever fancy centre panel - but I have scrapped old cars because the ECU decided that there was an airbag fault which was not resolved with a new airbag. I'm a full time sysadmin/developer - my car does not need a computer to go, and if it must have one, it shouldn't be a brick covered in epoxy.

I somewhat long to return to dumb electromechanical components like distributors, rather than unimaginably expensive, irreparable, interdependent systems.

#RightToRepair

[–] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Holding on to my account until Reddit completes my GDPR "right to erasure" request, I check back in periodically just to get my mail and make sure the mods I've left behind don't need anything from me before I fizzle out of existence.

[–] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Gender Abolitionism/Accelerationism ✊😤

[–] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The team that invented blue LEDs won a nobel prize.

Now every fucking item in my room has a beacon that would put the eye of fucking Sauron to shame.

100% agree with you, and have started destroying LEDs where possible.

[–] Bazzatron@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same, but the one sub is my profile to delete whatever decides to show up on that day...! Sucks not being able to control your own data easily - but I understand why they'd engineer it this way.