my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.

what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes

For Those Who Were Told This Is the Best We Can Do:

We were promised a #future.
What we got was a subscription.

The world told us: #Work hard, play fair, and you will rise.
But the elevator was always broken.
Only the penthouse keys worked.

#Capitalism did not #fail.
It did exactly what it was designed to do.

It turned human time into fuel.
It turned life into a cost factor.
It turned dignity into a luxury brand.

The #system says everyone can win.
This is like a casino saying everyone can leave rich.
The building exists because most people lose.

Once the ruling class wore crowns.
Now they wear hoodies, smiles, and stock options.

Once #exploitation needed whips.
Now it needs apps.

You are told you are free.
But your #freedom ends where rent begins.
Where debt begins.
Where #healthcare begins.
Where #survival begins.

This is not freedom.
This is The Hunger Games, except the Capitol convinced the districts to blame each other for the rules.

The poor fight the poor.
The middle class defends a system that is slowly deleting it.
The rich watch it all like a live stream, asking only one question:
“How do we monetize this?”

You are praised for exhaustion.
#Burnout is called ambition.
Rest is called weakness.

A system that needs you tired cannot afford you awake.

They say: Be grateful you have a #job.
As if survival were a gift.
As if obedience were a virtue.

This is the #Matrix, but instead of machines farming bodies, corporations farm attention, energy, and years of your life — and call it “career growth.”

First, it poisons the water.
Then it sells bottled #hope.

First, it destroys #community.
Then it sells “networking.”

First, it creates loneliness.
Then it sells algorithms pretending to be love.

It tells you:
If you are unhappy, it is your fault.
If you are poor, you didn’t optimize hard enough.
If you fail, you didn’t brand yourself properly.

This is not a system of opportunity.
It is a system of blame #management.

No billionaire earned their wealth alone.
They inherited leverage.
They bought laws.
They rented governments.

Every fortune is built on invisible backs.
Every luxury stands on unpaid overtime somewhere else on the planet.

This is Titanic economics:
First class debates wine pairings.
Third class floods.
And the band plays louder so no one hears the structure cracking.

They don’t fear protests.
They fear understanding.

Because the moment people realize:

* #Poverty is structural
* #Exploitation is intentional
* Inequality is profitable

The spell breaks.

That is why they flood us with culture wars.
That is why they keep us scrolling.
That is why they turn politics into reality TV.

A divided working class is the most efficient resource extraction tool ever invented.

We do not need heroes.
We need awareness.

We do not need saviors.
We need solidarity.

The future will not be built by billionaires.
They only know how to extract, not how to care.

A system that cannot imagine human worth without #profit
has already confessed its moral bankruptcy.

Another world is not only possible.
This one is already impossible.

It survives only because we keep mistaking endurance for consent.

History does not move forward politely.
It moves when people stop believing lies that no longer serve them.

And when that happens —
no #algorithm can suppress it,
no #market can absorb it,
no #empire can rebrand it.

Because ideas whose time has come
do not ask for permission.

They arrive.

#criticism #society #politics #protest #justice #change #ethics #humanrights #humanity #moral #finance

#TheSilenceContinues

The silence is deafening. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for #homeless people.

(Amendment I) Sorry, you don't have the right to assemble in public space even in protest because your homeless.

(Amendment IV) Sorry, you don't have the right to be served a search warrant when we steal your only way to stay warm and dry.

(Amendment VIII) Sorry, your under arrest for trying to survive in public spaces in the middle of winter/heatwave after the city/state/federal has taken everything from you and there is absolutely no place to go to get out of the weather.

A short time ago, #Trump decided that 771,000 people have no US Constitution rights when he declared it #Illegal2BHomeless across the entire country. Not only do we now have to be on the lookout for city cops, shariffs, state cops, National Guards (that also forgot the oath we say when joining the US Military), we have to be looking for everyday haters who won't hesitate to kill us for simply not having a paid for place to live.

But the silence continues.

A story of triumph in 3 acts.

#Birds

Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve.

Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead.

Everyone: Okay.

Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.