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Capitalists don’t care about making quality products/services.

They care about squeezing more profit out of you as time goes on.

We were warned, too.

Our God here in the US is Mammon, even though he usually goes by other names; rational self-interest, the invisible hand, etc.

Mammon would never let genocide get in the way of glorious profit.

To be fair, it cares about you exactly as much as your OnlyFans crush.

Probably a cheaper obsession.

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I think you could drastically minimize any impact by doing the time travel in space and merely observing from high orbit, assuming your time machine has no form of exhaust, which if you have a time machine seems like a relatively small engineering challenge by comparison.

You might displace a few atoms in the void, but it’s the safest way one could go about it.

I mean, technically displacing the air with that time machine on such a massive time scale is just as likely to result in returning to a civilization of dolphin people as riding a dinosaur would.

Okee 🤷

In that one respect, they are accidentally right. Everyone has implicit racial biases whether they realize it or not.

To claim one is 100% not racist is basically akin to “I don’t even see color.” It is denial, often self-denial. This is just sociology.

The best way to minimize this reality is to be self-aware of one’s own biases and make conscious effort not to act on those biases.

It is more damaging to pretend you have no implicit racial bias whatsoever and therefore nothing you can do could possibly have racially based motivations. Proud racists use this line of thinkng to attack critical race theory, a valid sociological concept.

It’s best not to think of the US as “in trouble” so much as it is a corpse having its organs, fluids, and bones removed by people like the Kochs for quick sale.

The US as a society died and was beyond hope for self repair before the first Gen Z was even born. This is just leftover momentum and the fire sale.

The only “hope” is that whatever replaces this failed experiment is of the fed up people’s design, and not exploitation engine 2.0 by the oligarch class that bastardized and doomed this one.

Nothing can improve under the current constitutional framework. Too far captured, too far owned, too far propagandized, too compromised to operate as anything more than the entrenched power apparatus of the owner class.

I thought we had a labor shortage.

I’ll befriend one of these immigrants actually fighting to give their family a better life over one of my exclusionary, self professed “conservative” countrymen born on third base acting like they hit a triple any day.

Also I consider nation state borders to be the imaginary lines that enable the local warlords/oligarchs to entrench their power over their region, and carve up our communal habitat for private benefit. It’s a damaging, tribal, animalistic concept that divides humanity on more than geographical terms. Wrong idealogical direction if we want to be a civilization and not beasts at each other’s jugulars in the dirt.

Sure, I could be part of the solution, But what’s in it for ME exclusively?!

I’d rather get sick, or make a lot of people sick, than cooperate with others. I derive my self-worth from how badly others are losing so I can feel like a winner, so it’s against my interests to prevent others from from getting sick!

-Average Asshole American

Yes, the problem of wealth concentration is going unaddressed and getting worse.

The few with more than they need to live large for a thousand lifetimes using their ill gotten, exploitation derived wealth to exploit more wealth while contributing no labor to the society they extract value from without any consideration, let alone any appreciation for the society that provided the conditions for their great wealth in the first place. In essence, our oligarchs are fracking human civilization, for nothing more than ego.

This is what happens when you pretend a problem isn’t a problem, and is in fact our purpose in life. In a crisis, the US’s first declaration is that “we must protect our beloved society economic system of systematic exploitation.” where else would such a road lead?

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1

Oh wow, I guess William Randolph Hearst’s ghost must have finally run out of bribe money.

Go see how supportive of a union’s right to strike for better pay and working conditions your enemies are, then.

Spoilers… nah I wont ruin it for you.

It matters if they’re enshrined in law because in the grey area, under the right wrong administration, the means of state violence will start cracking illegal striker’s skulls and calling it “rule of law.”

Either unions have the power to strike or they are begging beggars subject to the whims of capital.

You can’t have both, and it isn’t a Grey area. Biden chose capital in the case of the railroad.

I’ll vote for the feckless crime bill passing, union busting piece of garbage to stave off Jerry Lewis Hitler, but he’s part of the longer term problem with this country, and one of the OG neoliberals that surrendered the Democrat party to Reagan the oligarchs economically into today.

ALL of a union’s power is in striking/the threat of striking, and it needs to be demonstrated regularly. Biden not letting the nation feel the pain of a railroad strike was a disservice to the union movement.

Not winning those concessions through a strike was a blow to the union movement. Daddy came and took away their privilege to fight back, spoke to the railroad, and got their ice cream for them… this time.

They need to have their own power 24/7/365 under any President, or they have no power at all.

How you win is just as important as winning. They need to be a peer that can stand up to the railroad with consequences at any time, or they’re on borrowed time before the next encroachment.