brand advertising has reflected this. the middle is disappearing and its either move upmarket and compete for the 10% or go low and wide. tariffs and brands capitulating to right wing demands has also really fucked a lot of this.
And the tech industry, desperate for something to save them from the looming AI bubble, will gladly offer their services to whatever will get them sweet sweet government dollars.
In an economy where your value is determined by how much you consume, those who can't spend become subhuman. So think about how homeless people are treated now, and expand that to the bottom 50%.
Dangerous for the 10%. Thankfully for them, Israel is the testing ground for population control.
Like 60% of consumer spending in the USA is done by the top 10% income bracket. There are hundreds of millions of people who are increasingly becoming dead weight, as far as that 10% are concerned.
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But even in all the horror, you can still see the faint glimmer of possibility that a better world built on humanity and love is possible, and I think that is what still keeps me going lol
Capitalism is dead and has been dead for a while. The owners know this. Ive said this before, but the game now is whether or not they can create the AI killbot army required to control the masses before the masses wake up and unite against the machine algorithm of death.
No, politically illiterate as in not understanding that cheering for a woman who openly praised Trump for murdering civilians in boats while criticizing Trump for bombing said boats.
This is basically what happened with the subprime mortgage crisis. The idea behind the modern economy is that the more people involved who dont actually know what's going on, the better.
Pleading ignorance when the entire house of cards falls apart is the perfect defense.
If no one ever looks in the shiny box to see the pile of shit in it, you can keep trading boxes of shit back and forth forever. That way the line stays going up.
“I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.”
