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The insurmountable momentum of the systems we have in place will lead us to ruin.

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  • Sure...we are not at all at fault. Our demand for disposable tech junk and cheap Chinese trinkets is the corporations fault. Tech corporations made cryptocurrency and set up crypto farms?

    I'll give you oil corps all day long, but most of the rest is on us. We did it. We fucked ourselves. We demanded that the planet burn while we meme about climate change on Twitter, as it single handedly eats enough power to run a town.

    Let the downvotes commence. Lie to yourselves all you want, but that doesn't makes us less guilty.

    • A lot of this can be attributed to corporations and the (b/m)illionaire class forcing us all into a position where we too have to try and find a way forward, and a way to get wealthy. Those needs lead to things like people working multiple gig jobs like Uber Eats; trying to monetize crypto or basically any hobby we can think of; distracting ourselves with junk because we can’t come to terms with the fact that our lives are all lacking because the ruling class is constantly draining us dry.

      There is always a link back to the ruling class with these things.

      Why are minority neighborhoods fucked? Because the ruling class doesn’t see them as profitable; because the landlord class sees their land as a commodity and drives them out, or takes over and continues to gentrify.

      Why can’t anyone afford rent? Because the landlord class drives prices up simply because they can. What do people in desperate times like this do? They seek out what they consider “easy money” such as crypto, selling hobbies, etc. Drop-shipping junk on Etsy and even buying it for themselves.

      We live in a country that forces downward pressure on everyone that isn’t swimming in money.

      “But what about people in tech that get paid well?” — they are still trying to seek their own shortest way out due to constant burnout because of layoffs and “line go up” pressure. Yet again, the ruling class is at the root of the problem.

    • Our demand for disposable tech junk and cheap Chinese trinkets is the corporations fault.

      Yes, it is. With wages being paid by corporations so low and absolute necessities such as food, shelter, and medicine so expensive, most of us can't afford anything better.

      Tech corporations made cryptocurrency and set up crypto farms?

      They literally did, yes.

      most of the rest is on us. We did it. We fucked ourselves

      It's not every day you see delusions of grandeur, victim blaming and a mea culpa in the same sentence. Probably because that's ridiculous.

      We demanded that the planet burn

      [Citation needed]

      we meme about climate change on Twitter, as it single handedly eats enough power to run a town.

      Nope. No real person uses "enough power to run a town" to meme. That's corporations and billionaires you're thinking of.

      Lie to yourselves all you want

      Nah, no need. We have you for that.

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