TrismegistusMx @ TrismegistusMx @lemmy.world

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Where did I try and excuse it? It happens, and certain circumstances make it worse. You can cry about who should or shouldn't do what or you can make the fucking changes.

The only thing questionable is your reading comprehension. Our society exacerbates these problems by addressing everything at the symptom level of punishing individuals, which allows root causes to be ignored. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty are both root causes, but the only people to blame are those with the power to make changes. In other words the rich and powerful. They keep us in poverty and ignorance so they can stay in wealth and ignorance. They're still responsible.

I do blame them for that, and for enforcing a system that worsens their own mental illness. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm defending horrific actions.

Not all poverty is monetary. Their wealth is a symptom of a poverty of mind, soul, and conscience.

Because unregulated, greedy, manipulative, underhanded scammers doesn't have the same ring to it.

AI will change the game, but I think after an initial period of growing pains that we're really facing a shift in the economy whether we're ready or not. All of the "problems" of capitalism have been due to runaway efficiency. A scarcity economy is absurd when we're infinitely capable of producing everything people want or need.

You want to criticize my protest and waste my time, but when was the last time you sent an email to an elected official?

Sometimes, when it's particularly impactful. But you can save your shaming for somebody who cares about your opinion. The fact that you've given me more attention than anybody with the power to change things shows where your allegiance lies.

While undermining the system that is already failing artists.

If we had any sense as a species we would be funding artists so that they can pursue their art full time. Industry advances technology, but art advances the mind.

Cops show up after the crime. The law and the cops don't prevent the rape. If you want less rapists, you have to address the problem at the systemic level, and that means changing the factors that lead up to rape. What would that entail? Dismantling toxic gender roles, increasing community, enabling access to therapy and mentor programs, giving people hope that they can determine their own futures, creating a safe space for sex workers in society, and other actions that stop the festering hatred and social rot that leads to rape.

That will never happen as long as people like you are satisfied with state sponsored violence to hide the problems in the private-prison-slavery-industrial complex.

Cops show up afterwards to bust heads. They don't diffuse situations. They don't uplift the desperate. They just use state sanctioned violence to keep the suffering out of sight while they protect the property and interests of the rich. The laws punishing rapists and murderers don't stop rape or murder. They enable it by addressing the problem on the symptom level so that it's never addressed on the systemic level. As long as it's quiet, people like you can pretend it's not happening. The only one who needs a reality check here is you.

You think this is an argument?

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Even if I pay for a product I love some asshole suit is going to get a bigger cut than the artists who did the work.

More like soup, in that it's a solo activity that hurts nobody.

The man, the myth, the legend.

So even you recognize that it's not real money until it's cash.

I believe it when I can buy a Big Mac with crypto.

Maybe you'll be able to retire in El Salvador.

That's what the numbers on the account says anyway.