Things Bill Gates won't write about on his blog: :epstein:
These comparisons are always nonsense
"We've never been richer"
Who? Who is "we?" If you're in a hunter-gatherer tribe and everyone has enough to eat and there's a surplus and everyone can rely on everyone else and there's zero alienation, that sounds a lot better than making six figures hitting a keyboard and returning to a sterile apartment to watch anime
"More advanced"
Who the fuck cares?
"More powerful"
Liberal idealist nonsense
No don't you get it, having a smartphone is actually way better than being able to buy a house and raise a family with just a high school diploma
i mean, you have the entirety of the knowledge amassed by humans at your fingertips lol
30 years ago you had to go to the library and use an encyclopedia to learn about random stuff
Nothing wrong with smartphones as a concept and many of the things you can do with them are both incredibly rad and incredibly useful
I'm trying to imagine a world where they would be made solely with public good in mind :sadness:
The internet is a tool that could easily be used to supplement learning and work the way they pretend it does. Instead it's just used to sell products and hyper normalize the spectacle.
There are so many things that exist that you can see the ghost of socialism in. Things that were meant to be used in a mode of social production that the early scientific socialists saw so clearly. The world we live in now is a stillborn husk.
literally worse than every other ad in existence. worse than that one dancing cartoon people commercial.
This could describe a lot of ads.
But I am 100% you are talking about that fucking GrubHub ad and I hate it
All these western liberal humanist bullshit made a lot more sense if you replace any talk about "modern humanity" with "empire".
"Never before in our empire's glorious history have we been richer, more advanced, or powerful"
i mean use the context for what comes after it? "so why can"t we solve climate change" like, it makes sense because of what follows
So it's just setting up a false premise for the argument
Example: "Black people were freed in 1865, why don't they just... do better?"
The premise itself is empty of real context
no? for example your example would then go into jim crow, racism, institutionalized racism, etc... like the video does lol
the premise makes sense lol, we have more ability than ever to tackle issues, so why don't we
Your premise here is "black people were freed in 1865" which is true, not false. This comparison makes no sense.
Cuckzgesagt should have stuck with cool astrophysics videos. Their recent billionaire propaganda arc has been a spit in the face of any pursuit of scientific truth and the betterment of humanity. Slimy, disgusting, pure neoliberal ideology poured straight into the brains of the students who innocently clicked on their channel. The cuckzegesagt team has failed to live up to the scientific humanist ideals they once espoused. Utter trash with shit for brains.
YouTube is a great place to watch consent be manufactured before your very eyes. The second they partnered with the Gates Foundation they were done
Someone linked a /r/Military thread that crossposted a /r/GenZedong thread about Prysner calling out George Bush for being a warcriminal and the comments were full of half communist vets and half lib vets whining about how we need to vote lmao.
Bill Gates is so rich that his Wordpress blog has its own legal entity
it's a distinct entity, kinda like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Love how even in their little animated bird universe the utility pole is decrepit and in violation of NESC standards.
I admittedly bailed after I glanced at the description, maybe I'll hatewatch this later.
My favourite part of this is how they have fifteen-fucking-thousand people giving them money on Patreon. Monthly! They don't need your money, dummies! They deleted their most popular video of all time because their sponsors didn't like it. Do you actually think your contribution matters? Fucking simps.
Their video about addiction, that more or less came to the conclusion that capitalist alienation and no meaningful support structures is the chief cause.
