• kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I bet they think they can transfer their “consciousness” into a computer network and exist in a destroyed environment… Or they dumb and greedy idiots

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    There is no plan. Capitalism is not a cohesive scheme deliberately engineered and steered by the bourgeoisie. It’s an engine that was set into motion at one point and has been trucking on by itself ever since. It preserves itself by rewarding those who uphold it and punishing those who dissent.

    Let’s say Jeff Bezos got the Ebenezer Scrooge treatment tonight and woke up a changed man who genuinely cares about his workers. If he tried to improve labor conditions at Amazon and it cut into profits, Amazon shareholders would sue into oblivion and some board of directors would appoint a new guy who’s willing to do whatever it takes to make number go up. Every politician who tries to change the system gets drowned out by corporate donors simply protecting their short-term interests and every corrupt politician who works to maintain it gets rewarded.

    There’s nobody at the steering wheel here. The bourgeoisie is along for the ride just like you and me, they just have nicer seats. Capitalism sustains itself through the immediate short-term incentives it creates. If you sell out, you can have a nice life right now. If you don’t, someone else will.

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      To prevent possible misunderstandings, let me say this: I don’t paint the figures of the capitalist and landlord in rosy colors—far from it. But individual persons play a role here only insofar as they are the personifications of economic categories, or the bearers of particular class relations and interests. My approach treats the development of society’s economic formation as part of natural history, as that type of process, and no other approach does less to make the individual responsible for conditions that he remains a creature of socially, however much he manages to transcend them subjectively.

      — Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Preface to the 1867 Edition (Paul Reitter translation)

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    Hungry ghosts don’t have an endgame, they just keep eating. The billionaires want to eat everything, and once there aren’t any poors left to eat they’ll eat each other, and once they’re the only person left alive they’ll eat themselves. Endless hunger forever.

  • MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    They plan to use their current influence to prepare as much as possible to enslave enough workers to keep around after The Event happens. I’m talking shock collars, social engineering surrounding access to food and water, unlimited surveillance. They see the upcoming disasters that their exploitative lifestyles are directly causing as unpreventable tragedies, so they’re having fun while they can and scheming about how to maintain as much comfort and power as possible after The Event.

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    capitalist-laugh you’re thinking small, buddy, there are so many planets out there we can ruin (no I will not invest in science and education so we can actually build the rockets, i’ll just give a trillion dollars to the ketamine man)

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      This is what I’m thinking. They probably think deep in their hearts they can weather the storm then emerge from their bunkers and repopulate the earth in their image and be ruler of mankind.

      [farts]

      Yeah good luck with that buddy.

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        I think back of that one prepper who was morbidly obese, had giant stockpiles of canned food, and who wanted to do a practice run of staying in the bunker for a month.

        Got a heart attack.

        When you are so concerned with survival that you get yourself killed.

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    I don’t think they can see that far. Even the ones with bunkers might be a minority. And the ones with bunkers still need to hire guys to tell them to consider putting shock collars on their guard slaves in them.

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      Actually, the shock collaring was something the billionaires came up with. They had to hire a guy to tell them not to do it, because if you shock collar your own security guys they’re just going to kill you out of spite.

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      Legit most of the ones with bunkers might have plans to get to their bunkers but they probably have no idea how to get there if said plans fall apart or they don’t have help. Imagine Bezos and his wife trying to operate that horizontal skyscraper of a boat with just 2 pairs of hands.

      Which I mostly bring up because it bears remembering when we think about how they are actively destabilizing the world outside the bunker while they themselves are outside their bunker.

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      What’s especially odd to me is that usually what I hear them describe as the “biblical end-times” is mostly unique to baptists. Like, I was brought up southern Baptist and went to a different denomination of Christian school, and they all but ridiculed the idea of the rapture and tribulation period. Many of them seemed to agree that Revelation was just symbolic of the church’s persecution at the time of writing. Also there was at least one more disciple who wrote a “revelation,” but it disagreed with John’s, so it was struck from the canon.