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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    14 days ago

    I mean democracy has never been real in The West. It always operates and constrains popular media, and cultural forces to constrain the resistance to Capitalism.

    It’s always coopted and cooperative with the forces of wealth and repression. So yeah, yell this shit on social media, maybe one day a diluted form will appear on CNN or NBC, but there’s no way it will go further than that.

    We’re along for the ride, censored, confined, robbed of time, money, power and lifeforce… And only existing to be used in someone else’s dreams of wealth extraction and labour exploitation.

    EDIT: people don’t understand manufacturing consent anymore.



  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldwhat I think of the apps
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    19 days ago

    Don’t forget the extra charges and price increases along the way which fund the tech billionaires who own these apps.

    Previously we had Capitalism (and that already wasn’t great). Where a buyer and a seller met and then freely determined the price transaction.

    Now via many of these market place apps (ebay, Amazon, AliExpress) we have markets where a third party (the platforms owner) can algorithmically control who sees what prices, and when, acting as a means to promote whatever prices benefit the platforms profitability the most.

    That’s why the VC tech guru “disruptors” business model is often to run at a massive loss for years then basically owning a whole market.

    This new system is called Techno-Feudalism.