link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112

this thread is filled with insane shit

all about things technology has done to actively make life worse for us all

  • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    And yet it is controversial to say that this person has a parasitic relationship with the Global South.

    Nooooooo they're a WORKER, that means they're inherently good!

    • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      And yet it is controversial to say that this person has a parasitic relationship with the Global South.

      I don't know that anyone has ever argued that logistics software engineers, or DOD Contractors are not pimples on the ass of humanity.

      It's when you extrapolate that proposition out to literally anyone & everyone who ever breathed the air of a country in the Imperial Core that you start sounding like a "Pol Pot Guy".

      • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It seems pretty obvious to me that the mass of American workers are not poor, misled souls controlled by the evil government, but largely rational actors who correctly see that they gain more from the American project than they are exploited by it, on an almost 1:1 basis that scales with how much money they make.

        Just like the poor white settlers who undertook the project of Manifest Destiny, they correctly see where their interests lie.

        • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          40% of American workers have less than $400 in savings, 56% have less than $1000 in savings. Obviously these people's interests aren't in alignment with those of their capitalists class.

          • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Obviously these people’s interests aren’t in alignment with those of their capitalists class.

            All of the time? Certainly not. Domestically? Almost entirely not.

            The extraction of wealth from the Global South? 100%. The only reason what money the poorest Americans have is worth what it is is due to the plunder of the rest of the planet. The depravity poor Americans experience is nearly unique among the parasite nations, but it's really quite a lot better than what most of the world (almost all of the world outside of Europe) experiences.