Curious Carrot

@curious_carrot
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I operate at the edge of design and development.

I'm interested in all the ways society can develop for the benefit of the many.

Antifascist.

Karma is a betch, Alex Jones.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Seen in Hardcore Bikes (HCB), a bicycle shop in Edmonton Alberta 🚴‍♀️

"No one wants to work, our turnover is terrible!"

Ok, do you pay a living wage?
"No"

Do you give annual raises more than 7%, the annual rate of cost of living increase?
"Also no, but-"

Do you give larger raises and bonuses to execs than to your workers?
"Well yes, but-"

Did you force people to stop working from home in order to justify the cost of maintaining real estate you own?
"I mean, we-"

Do you heavily invest in AI so you can justify massive layoffs?
"Like every other co-"

Do you ask your employees to pick up the slack for the people who have left?
"We had t-"

And did you install digital tools to spy on your remaining employees?
"Look we need to ensu-"

Sounds to me like people DO want to work, you've just made it unpatatable for them to work for YOU.

Decreto sicurezza: immunità per gli agenti “istigatori”

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Buddy you think I'm being hyperbolic, but naw the capitalist class has more or less spent the past 400+ years trying to do slavery. They're still trying to do it now. If you ever heard an economist and a corporate CEO talk about labor, you'd know I'm not being hyperbolic. Capitalism itself has never worked unless you can exploit labor - and you're gonna point to the last 90 years of US history to which I will say "actually that only worked because of imperial looting to offset the labor cost."
Reality is that no capitalist ever "created" a lick of wealth. That's a lie. The money, the resources, the labor, COMES from some place - and usually we extract it at bayonet point. Your entire society is a series of polite fictions that ignores the fact that SOMEONE, in the chains capitalism forms, has to get fucked. It can be the peasants, it can be brown people half a world away - but capitalism does NOT CREATE WEALTH it merely moves it up the economic pyramid. You're always ROBBING someone.

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...

Have a good Friday everyone!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_millions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

Every employee at my company starts at $33/hr. We are on track to post a half million dollars this year.

Never let them tell you they can't pay you a living wage.

What they mean is they WON'T pay you a living wage.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116421159289416290

There are other data points about why we should tax the hell out of corporations and billionaires, but this is a good one.