Food for thought for defenders of capitalism: 1.1 billion people, nearly a quarter of the global urban population, live in slums or informal settlements. That’s roughly the entire population of the planet when Engels and Marx published The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Is this progress?
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internet remains functional enough
that people can still continue
trading unto the end, while they are drowning, on fire, starving,
have Covid, AND
having their faces eaten by leopards.
we ought to focus on what we can control, focus on the good that we can do here in the us, then radiate that outwards.
Its the petrodollar fuelled consumer economy rot
The amount of medium talent white engineers who believe they are de facto smarter than a Chinese engineer is staggering as the Chinese build entire cities in months. They think an Indian can never write SQL queries as good as they can
And Brazil isn't even the worst place in this regard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)
The financial threshold for poverty per the UN, <$1.50 a day, hasn't risen since 1954. Since then, $1.50 has inflated to $32. Numerically we have 20x as many people in real poverty as then, but the global population has only trebled
These Lucretious fucks have made every single wrong turn to wring profit they can't ever spend from kids. Every generation. From *kids*.