The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.

That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.

It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.

Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/56355

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    create art

    How about music as an example; it’s harder than it’s ever been to make a living from making music without following an ever-narrowing window of what it should sound like.

    We went from music in the 19thC being a hugely expressive range of dynamics, tempo, time signature, instrumentation all within one single piece, to the top 95+% of artists all pumping out 4/4 time, 130bpm, same volume throughout, same instrumentation throughout, no pauses, repeating verse/chorus structure. Is that because it’s better? Heck no, it’s because that’s what record companies will consider a reliable enough formula to be worth the risk of pumping millions into promoting.

    You’re accusing OP of fatalism, but I put it to you that it’s you who are fatalistic in accepting Capitalism as just how it is, and that we should lump it and do our Art in our spare time and be thankful for it.

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
      27·
      2 days ago

      You are allowed to earn from music and try to make a living off of your music. And a lot of new music I experience doesn’t follow the formula you prescribed.

      You should broaden your world view.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        And a lot of new music I experience doesn’t follow the formula you prescribed.

        Well done, you’re listening to a group than makes less than 5% of the money mentioned earlier.

        You should broaden your world view.

        It’s always the densest, point-missing people that act the most condescending and rude when you thought you were having a good faith discussion. Blocked