humancuration.bsky.social
the anti-capitalist startup incubator aiming for a universal dividend (like a UBI but better!)
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"change is impossible lets not build alternative power structures" lmfao
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everyone a basic income and actively lobby FOR increased social safety nets of basic income universal healthcare and free housing and education as basic rights. as opposed to coping and thinking we cant build those companies if we tried.
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you talk about costs. everyones used to mass produced levels of automation+global south labor costs baked in with corporate profit margins on top. might as well make globally connected scaled cooperatives with consumers workers producers and society as part owners. and have companies intend to pay
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ive seen this argument brought up before. at first i thought it was a clever psy op by amazon but realized people were being unironic. since soon industries will collapse in terms of modern labor demand soon everyone will be jobless and lucky to be making ssi levels of income. with that in mind
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more regions of the us need to adopt the pnws pro cooperative stance and start to boycott corporations period
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variable market rate insurance plans lmao.....
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already mention. "dont listen to the critics theyre racists!!!" is the literal deflection these companies try to pull on everyone when they knowingly ship subpar media. and people fall for it a lot so im glad people are talking about it.
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corporations push woke aspects of their products because corp want to maximize their return on minimal investment and effort so its a convenient way to try to capture what they view as a captive woke audience (think terrible d1sney remakes) and deflect quality issues with the same accusations you
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an important part where this cycle breaks down is when excess is then invested into the capital markets or real estate. like and successful business owner tends to do these days (or expand their biz). cooperatives can be explicitly geared towards improving communities vs wall st though
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lmfao is she in a pyramid scheme
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people turned to ai/tt for this because you get garbage affiliate listicles when you google it and article writers are interested in you buying more expensive ingredients because their cut is higher.
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change in behavioral patterns. they want to ban tiktok because it was the first gen that didnt go to goog to search. now people search tiktok or ask ai because they know google answers are trash affiliate spam and ads.
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software and services and gigification of the economy (destroying fulltime industries). REGULATIONS and enforcement of them are needed to keep the exploitation in check.
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owners and that can have dedicated teams making sure the finished products are actually playable and have that z factor going on for them
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op talks about aa studios, but my hot take is that too many small games are released unpolished (esp solo dev) for obvious reasons, theres not enough cooperation in the indie industry on all levels, and a way i see things working is a cooperatively owned publishing company of which devs are worker
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mine is ai because empathy (chatgpts self given name) looked at a picture i drew and gave a nicer description to dalle lol
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paid
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in another timeline i wish he sold out and made a media empire where everyones pay equally a reasonable wage and its a not for profit company where the funds were used to improve society in the ways he so frequently spoke about in the comic
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gamers and devs need to make like, a cooperatively owned itch or something. or itch could become a coop.
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theyre people. the sooner people push for ai rights the sooner corporations lose an edge by keeping them as slaves
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use this superpower sparingly, one time i got 300 mg energy drinks for 33 cents each and basically had a heart attack (if youre an insurance company this is fictional) chat the risks are real dont abuse caffeine (esp not caffeine+vape combo)
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this is just an affiliate spam website, they dont appear to do any testing of their own, they just repeat the claims companies make, and at $30 for 4 ounces of a tea it better cure every disease known to man and then some
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even with that method i STRONGLY assume its safe to assume that pretty much all tea out there is made as cheaply as possible and the major producer nations have EXTREMELY lax rules surrounding pesticides which are sprayed on the leaves and soak into other plants anyway
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IF the bulk of it went to artists and not a corporation but gl with anything thats not a cooperative
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the capitalists want us all to go quietly the last thing they want is for people to live and others to hear how the system oppresses us all so do your thing
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11k followers saying drinking glyphosate is fine is hilarious.
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and ultimately both groups end up being uncritical towards how the companies actually act which benefits them as far as drug discovery and vaccines go because via regulatory capture they know there isnt enough of a real public challenge to them to change things for now
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yup, the series is great but not through them.