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Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻musk fuckin up in public and crypto just absolutely tanking and self-driving cars clearly never coming together and "da metaverse" being its whole entire deal has me hopeful that fatuous tech futurism may be finally on the out. Maybe this can be replaced with envisioning a future worth living in
The Breadmonkey@TheBreadmonkey apparently gates owns most of the farmland now so gonna have to get it back from him somehow
Stable Jenious@vegetablegremlin @TheBreadmonkey gates and not Monsanto??
@ItsJenNotGabby @TheBreadmonkey monsanto owns the bulk of seeds but gates has been buying up the actual farmland
🐚 Undo Influence 🐚@vegetablegremlin @ItsJenNotGabby @TheBreadmonkey
You have to let him do whatever he wants or else you're anti-vax. :/
costrike@vegetablegremlin @TheBreadmonkey pitchforks are multipurpose
Jose GarciaIt may encourage some to direct investment into something more productive.
And the Randian/Libertarian myth of the heroic billionaire genius will hopefully die, at least for a while.
Good Geed@vegetablegremlin we can only hope so
robin@vegetablegremlin more likely it leads to global belt tightening, where the rich hunker down to deprive the poor. Yay
@vegetablegremlin I mean this is clearly tied up with entering a deep global recession causing billions to suffer. It's hard to spin a positive story
@vegetablegremlin I agree it feels good to watch Musk, Zuckerberg and crypto bros eat humble pie but people can't survive on schadenfreude alone
@nottrobin like literally nothing in my post was schadenfreude. I think you are posting on autopilot here.
@vegetablegremlin no the schadenfreude is all me. I'm just much more sceptical that anything good is gonna come out of the current environment. I hope I'm wrong.
@nottrobin this system seems inevitable but so did the divine right of kings
@vegetablegremlin oh yeah I'm excited for the fall of neoliberalism / capitalism. It has to happen one day. I'm just not holding my breath.
@nottrobin well no that breath should be used to connect, commune and organize, and that requires at some root a belief it is possible. Fatalism is an indulgence.
@vegetablegremlin I think I can manage to do both 😉
Loy@vegetablegremlin there'll be a next cycle of tech crap. Question is: what will it be that time around?
@loy what a dull response.
@vegetablegremlin True...
wish it was otherwise. We here can decide to not fall for it, but as long as investors somehow extract money to play around with, they'll seek the investments they expect to yield highest return.
It trickles down that way, slowly. Unless we go for 'piñata economics', which uh, trickles down faster 
@loy so your response to “maybe we can start to envision a better future” is “no don’t”
@vegetablegremlin I'm pretty skeptical about collective change, hearing about climate change all my life with little action.
But taxing the rich so we all share, leaving little money for crazy investments but instead an UBI, sounds great to me.
@loy rah bah bah
Lilian Edwards@vegetablegremlin what's the opposite of a perfect storm? A perfect oasis???