That's why instead of having 1 fully functional shipping services, we have many half assed and inefficient ones.
Fedex Rant
I'm just salty at Fedex for being the worst pakage services and delaying my package 4 times. I paid for 2 day shipping and am now looking at day 5(which I still would have been okay with if it came before the 31st!). What am I going to do with a Halloween costume on Wednesday? I hope all the workers organize and greatly increase their material conditions and the CEOs never see a bonus again.
Anyone have any other stories about the inefficiency of the innovations capitalism breeds to make me feel better?
Capitalism breeds so much innovation that the fossil fuel industry spends billions on propaganda and needs more billions to keep functioning even though they receive billions in profit. It breeds so much innovation that the industry has now know for decades that their products cause permanent damage to the environment and instead of developing a more climate friendly material they doubled down and lobbied, corrupted or outright killed everyone that tried to go against them. All in the name of profit.
Capitalism breeds so much innovation that 10 companies own the vast majority of what you eat, read and watch. It breeds so much innovation that ten people own as much as billions of other people combined.
So. Much. Innovation.
To put it this way: you don't need privatized companies owned by a few men or shareholders to breed innovation. Musk doesn't do shit for developing Tesla's. Gates doesn't do shit for developing operating systems. Bezos is not the one handpicking your Amazon order.
These companies exist only with one goal in mind: make profit. They sell as much shit as they can for as little cost as possible and they will go great lengths to keep those costs at a low while squeezing as much money as possible out of the people.
It's the workers who do all the work. It's the workers who pick your orders, develop your software, build your cars. It's the workers creating value for society. It's the workers generating a profit for the companies. But the workers have shit all to say in these places. Musk, Gates, Bezos and the gang of cronies are the ones pulling the strings whichever way they like.
It's time for the workers to escape this dictatorial way of living.
The Liberals will say that they support free market and meritocracy on the assumption that Capitalism means free market and meritocracy that should favors the working class. In implementation, the Liberals would then redefine Capitalism to mean authoritarian plutocratic command economy (which is the original definition of Capitalism), advocate for free-riding by the rich 1% over the 99% with the excuse that the authoritianisn 1% are the only significant contributors to society, and justify plutocracy on the claim that the wealth are magically distributed to people according to their merit.
they doubled down and lobbied, corrupted or outright killed everyone that tried to go against them.
Oh my God!
Were any of those victims white cishet capitalist men?
: "But it's profitable so it must be good. Don't like it, don't buy it. You need to learn to live and let live.""Vote with your wallet!" they scream, merging their two favourite illusions to the great cheering of porkys.
I need 3 different versions of toothpaste, who cares that it's the same company.
I saw a 60 minutes segment yesterday that made me cringe. So basically it was just jacking off some air purification company and treating their CEO as such an expert on the matter that it took me 5 minutes to tell that he wasn’t a government official from the CDC, because that’s how the host treated him. The CEO treats it like such a gamechanger for human health that it isn’t only progressive but profitable. So the whole thing was an ad for his air purification system to sell to land owners/ businesses. It’s a decent idea, but the fact that it’s being gatekept due to the greed of business owners/landowners (and the greed of this CEO for charging exorbitant prices for something that is supposed to be great for humanity’s future health) SHOULD be eye opening to more people as to what capitalism cares about. Money over everything. To clarify the
adsegment was mostly about how helpful this would be with dealing with covid. They say “well we could all go back to work and not do online anymore” which basically admits that they don’t care about covid. If they did they’d be all for staying at home and keeping cases down. It also is just a way to be like “pls buy building space, pretty pls with a multi-thousand dollar cherry on top?”"No no, this is a revolutionary technology but we HAVE to charge people for it." Haha the contradictions are insane
"Buh...but....porky doing the right thing is childish, don't be naive kiddo! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to write an op-ed about encouraging workers to throw in free labor for their boss, it's the morally right thing to do even if it's at your expense! Don't be so selfish, be a TeAm PlAyEr!"
People always say "capitalism breeds innovation" but I don't even know what a vation is nor why capitalism needs to breed in one
Innovation is 27 canned soup brands all owned by the same company and the "healthy" or vegan options cost 50-100% more.
Innovation is 15 different brands of phones that all run some half baked glitchy version of Android that loses half its battery charge life after 2 years so you have to buy a new one. But the Google Pixel is now on sale for $899.
Innovation is Voltwagon paying to fudge their emissions test because fuck the planet they got shareholders to please. They could be spending money on clean energy technology instead but yeah...
Innovation is DRM-based streaming services that all have the same slop but Netflix has cool shows they cancel after 2 seasons because altho they are really cool for the niche audience, they didn't bring in a gorbillion viewers.
I'll add more if I think of any.
It's true, my name is innovation and I get fucked by capitalism every day.
