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debris and detritus 2026-02-06 18:00:33

coredumpproject:

mysharona1987:

“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”

Capitalism can’t help but rush towards efficiency. If your product required 20 employees to produce, and mine only requires 1, mine will be cheaper. I have to automate, even if I know it destroys capitalism in the long term.

In the short term, 19 people lose jobs and struggle in a capitalist system where jobs are important.

But, after some fairly small percent of workers literally cannot work, what happens?

Capitalism Ends.

We’ll need a new system where workers aren’t the primary factor. Even with 25% unemployment, we can’t let 25% of people who need jobs, and are looking for work, just starve.

8 Billion people aren’t just going to die of starvation because 300 ‘own’ everything.

We’ve had those revolutions before. We’ll have them again. We may not even need a violent revolution. It may be more like royal families in countries where they simply realized they didn’t want to end up like the French.

Then we’ll see what happens after capitalism.

When I was in high school we did an english unit on Octavia Butler and the teacher told us hey btw….

asthedeathoflight:

When I was in high school we did an english unit on Octavia Butler and the teacher told us hey btw. You should call her “Butler” in your essays. Sometimes students call female writers by their first names unconsciously, but that’s not acceptable. If you wouldnt call them William or Ernest you shouldn’t call her Octavia.

And I was like cool whatever I was gonna call her Butler anyways. But that moment has stuck with me for my whole life because once you start seeing ppl calling women by their first names where men would be called by their last names you literally never stop seeing it.