ShareMySims

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[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let’s say that you have an opportunity to gain billions to fix the society from the top.

Society can not, and never will be, fixed from the top.

Nor is money the solution to our problems, if anything, it is a huge part of the cause (and why communism aspires to a moneyless society, among other things).

So even if I say I'd only accept the money if I could instantly redistribute it, as long as other billionaires, and the systems that create and uphold them, exist, my personal actions would probably make little difference in the long run, and any money I shared would end up right back in their pockets (by virtue of how capitalism works).

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thanks for the heads up.

OP - my feedback is fix this.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

The only way to stop them is to abolish the systems and institutions that enable their existence in the first place, and ~~eating~~ removing them from society (unless they agree to give up their ill gotten power and resources, of course. As if).

Anything else is a distraction created by those maintaining said systems and institutions (which includes the governing bodies of all nation states, as well as organisations like the EU*, as noble as the idea is in theory, and in practice in the minds of those who created it, but it is after all an economic treaty, which is upholding an economy system and the status quo) all to buy themselves more time to pillage, hoard, and manipulate society for their personal gain.

*As a brit I feel compelled to say that I'm pro EU under our current system, since our shitty government(s) must have someone to answer to (because it sure doesn't answer to the people), but I'm fully aware that it is at the end of the day a neoliberal institution that is there to maintain the status quo, not change anything fundamental to better society.

I'm expecting the DWP to instantly adopt whatever AI it is that that insurance company that recently lost its CEO uses to deny claims. And all I can do is hope that they, and those enabling them, get a similar response (though who am I kidding, if the general public gave two shits about poor and especially disabled people being deliberately and systemically denied support and left to die, we'd have seen a reaction a decade ago).

Hate to make you cry a little more, but it's £14 billion, not million

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, not anymore!

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Hey now, mansplaining does have its uses..

Mansplaining Now Tops Condoms as Most Effective Contraceptive

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, we need to abolish capitalism so we can have free access to healthcare (and food, water, shelter), not to continue playing by the rules set out for us by those who profit from commodifying our basic needs and human rights.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Ah, yes, continuing to prioritise economy over society, and even humanity, that's sure to start working out (for anyone other than the billionaires in power) any fucking day now... 🙄

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