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Comments by "Praise The Sun" (@Praisethesunson) on "How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)" video.

It's a totally unnecessary, unsustainable, and environmentally destructive method of production. A method that only exists because it consolidates power and control over production into the hands of the owners of capital. As opposed to the rabble, workers, or governments.
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@ImaSpacePotato Go take your Pinker neoliberal BS back to whatever suburb you fell out of. Ask Iraq how much more peaceful the world is for people like you. That point is to B is 8000+ miles because it keeps power in the hands of a minority of already wealthy people. Being self sufficient has literally nothing to do with it. International trade is corporations looking to skirt labor laws by finding the most exploitable people possible. That's it. Go take your strawmen and shove them where your head clearly already is.
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@nah5511 It's not just money. Businesses lose money doing these moves. The intention is to maintain power. Which pools money in the hands of whoever holds the power. Even if it means less overall money is generated.
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@mfk5533 Go tell that to the child slaves that grow your chocolate. Maybe it will inspire then to toil faster.
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@ImaSpacePotato "You participate in society so you can't critique it" classic Mr. Gotcha right there. The solution is to give all workers basic workers rights and protections. Then your ownership loses their one incentive to ship production across the globe.
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@bartholomewdan All that costs is a bunch human lives you'll never care to know and causing the worst environmental crisis our species has faced that will destroy human civilization. But at least it made a few already rich ghouls less accountable to the slaves who make the profits they steal. So totally worth it.
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@bartholomewdan Go tell Iran to start making nuclear power plants. While you are at it try and remember the deliberate search for wage slaves anywhere on Earth by your ownership class is the only reason this convoluted and inefficient system of international shipping even exists.
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@georgesmith4768 Laughs in bunker fuel and the magic pipe.
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@thoughtsofapeer Lol the "you are part of the global elite so how dare you point out any of the unsustainable and unjustifiable Exploitation that system deliberately cultivates" Gambit never works. Also those wages slaves want worker protections. Which they will be murdered for if they try to get them by the system you think my ancestors corpses are grateful for. If you think those petty luxury's I have are anything close to worth the cost in human lives(and also the literal planet according to those scientist types the system actively keep from power), you drank too much neoliberal coolaid.
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@ImaSpacePotato I'm glad we both agree you are shit at arguing. But it's not your fault. It's not your argument to begin with. You are just repreaching the neoliberal gospel charlatans like Pinker propagandize at your class. Global trade? The environmental unsustainable practice of current International shipping only exists because your ownership class wants to find the most exploitable slaves on the planet. That is totally unjustifiable. If every worker on the planet had even a handful of the worker protections your nation claims to. International shipping as it is today would not exist. Also if you think your "current way of life" is something worth maintaining. You haven't bothered to do an honest introspection about all the absolutely unnecessary BS that makes up your current way of life.
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@georgesmith4768 What a long winded way to say "My masters want to wastefully use resources to serve their own interests and I refuse to do anything about it".
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@papabeanguy Economics today is a religion to the Lord God called markets. Deliberately blind to power and only promoted thanks to immense funding from the wealthy ghouls that benefit from mainstreaming that religious vodo.
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@papabeanguy It's dogmatic lies that use math equations as a paper thin cover. A cover to specifically claim that entrenching power and wealth into the hands of the already wealthy and powerful is just science and not a blatant resource grab.
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@bartholomewdan Scientists say corporations and Capitalism are literally driving the rest of the living world to extinction and causing irreversible climate change. But those consequences don't matter to you.
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@bartholomewdan Lol developed nations. Iran can't have nuclear power because the U.S will bomb it to bits if it tried. The U.S only has nuclear power as a side product of building and threatening the rest of the world with nuclear weapons. France runs on nuclear and it's solution to nuclear waste is to make it Niger's problem. There is no long term storage for nuclear waste. Go tell Nevada your idea and let them explain why you are being ridiculous.
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@damascus1111 You are simping for your owners. Why do you suddenly care about democracy when these decisions weren't democratically made to begin with and aren't democratically made today. Your oligarchs unilaterally make these decisions. The rich who set up this system will still be rich. They as a class just won't have as much(they will still uncontestably have most) unilateral power over the means of production as they do today. That power is absolutely something they have shown that they should have less of. Also any idiot that thinks being part of a system means you can't critique it is the most absolute trash kind of status quo defender. said from my Ipaid 17pro lite ultra edition, before it is deliberately bricked by apple to push sales of the Ipaid 18 Deluxe Wait a minute, you literally just listed every neoliberal argument out there to try and justify why the status quo is unchangeable. From "it's over populations fault" to "everyone is too different to agree about not wanting to be exploited by corporate power" to the industrial age classic "changing anything will mean going back to the spooky dark ages!". Dude you are literal personification of it's easier to think of the end of humanity than it is the end of capitalism.
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I would guess moderation is too expensive.
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Covid sunk that cruise ship plan.
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Literally nothing you said addresses that global shipping is driven by mega conglomerates who are looking to find the most exploitable people possible to do the actual production. That's why those shoes are made in Vietnam. Your absolute refusal to acknowledge such an obvious fact is sad and blatant.
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@bartholomewdan If you think sitting in traffic 4 hours a day because your owners wanted you buying cars as your only adequate means of transportation is what counts as a high standard of living. You have already set the bar so low it's a tripping hazard in hell.
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You just asked a dozen questions as if they are all some prerequisite before you stop defending the status quo. And that they are something you would find in a youtube comment. You and the system you are defending are violating human rights today with zero intentions to stop. How does stopping capitalisms needless destruction of the environment and workers to benefit a minority of wealthy elite need to or require the end of all human rights violations to do? How mind poisoned are you? You literally wants Angels to come from on high and save you from the obvious ills of your civilization. Otherwise you'll just keeping what you've been doing as if that makes it the fault of the angels you wanted to save you. As if it's either billions of people use "individual personal responsibility" to do something or for a miracle to do something. Where is your agency in any of the answers to those nonsense questions?
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@SlackActionBumble Ancap is just feudalism where the divine right of kings is replaced with the secular market whims of kings.
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@michaelmccarthy4615 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell
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@SlackActionBumble The fact that you think you are a Capitalist is literally a propaganda idea instilled in you by your master class. You aren't. You sell your labor. The only reason you think you are a Capitalist is your wage terms are just agreeable enough for you to be ambivalent to anything outside your patterns of consumption. If you were a Capitalist you would have drivers/staff whose work generated money for you to pay for all that fashionable consumption you listed. If you actually tried to do that you would quickly learn where you actually stand in the Capitalist hierarchy. You are just a wage slave. Your shackles are silver instead of lead so you choose to ignore them. Here are some audiobook titles for you to listen to on your ride(that you can get for free from your local library) The outlaw ocean, everybody loves a good drought, and Capitalism A Ghost story.
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@damascus1111 hey guess what, the primary benefits are the sixth mass extinction event and irreversible climate change. But in exchange chocolate and smartphones are 0.02 cents cheaper than they could be. All thanks to the toil of slave children and death of the rest of natural world at the behest of a fuel rich ghouls.
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@VULVALLEGORY You can have 336 different hair straighteners but at most 2 practical ways do your daily commute. When it comes to choice in society you are deliberately restricted to choices that don't threaten the economic status quo.
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@SlackActionBumble Driving a vehicle doesn't make you an owner of capital. It's cute that you think that though. Since that's exactly the propaganda that was fed to you when your industry was gutted in the 80's. You make less in real wages than you did in that industry in 1970. You are Like a landlord with one house thinking they are a capitalist just like the hedge funds that buy houses in blocks of 100's. You think that way because your owners spend more every year than your entire bloodline will ever make to think the way you do. Don't you ever try to solar shame me. The amount of solar power I have in just my kitchen is the stuff of hippies drug addled dreams.
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@SlackActionBumble Climate doom and climate denial are both literally propaganda ideas created and pushed by the fossil fuel Industry. For the same reason. To keep you passive and from challenging the existing status quo. The reasons why you do nothing is irrelevant. As long as you do nothing. That's the goal.
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@damascus1111 There are tons of solutions. Literally whole books of them. Go to your local library and read about some of them.
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@joligarcon5970 Thank goodness we made sure to design our products in a way that ensures enough of them break after a predetermined period of time. So people like you don't impact our quarterly profit projections. -Every major corporation you buy from
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@damascus1111 There are a million different solutions. You are acting like there have been zero to this point and the economic elite that run everything just haven't heard it yet. Power is the issue. Specifically the ever increasing concentration of power to people totally unaccountable to the public.
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@thesilentone4024 If it wasn't for climate change (and the 6th mass extinction event its causing) the impact of nitrogen and pesticide runoff from agriculture on the biosphere would be the biggest ecological problem humanity is causing.
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@TheYah00netstar That's been being said since the 1960's.
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@guyfaux900 If only adequate mass public transit was something that existed. It doesn't because your ownership class can't extract as much value out of you if you don't need to depend on the products they own so you can get from A to B.
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@TofranBohk Being able to just murder workers when they try and organize for better pay and working conditions really drives down prices.
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@JDWonders You don't need a supercomputer or magic powers. All you need is the books of the corporations making those decisions. It's worked out down to the penny.
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@pilotjoe4010 WallMart is one of the largest central planners on the planet. Amazing for you to say they don't work.
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@SlackActionBumble Your owners tell you to want total change in a way that doesn't threaten the status quo they benefit from. If you think you sitting in traffic because your owners decided they could take more wealth from you if they controlled your primary means of transportation, is a quality part of life. You need to radically rethink what you consider quality and why. International trade doesn't exist. Your corporate oligarchs have massive internal command economies that happen to cross international borders. That is a system that absolutely needs to be destroyed.
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@SlackActionBumble THE SUN!!!! PRAISE THE SUN!!! THE ONLY GOD THAT LOOKS UPON YOU EVERYDAY AND YOU CANNOT STARE BACK WITHOUT BEING BLINDED BY ITS ABSOLUTE MAJESTY!
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@SlackActionBumble You are an acting as an amoral consumer. Exactly as you are conditioned to be by your owners.
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@ralfrudi3963 You do realize that murica does international shipping for stuff because muricas ownership class decided shipping things made by slaves half way around the world made them sllighty more ill gotten wealth than they alread had right? You know muricas public transit is trash because the murican corporations that sell cars and fossil fuels deliberately sabotaged public transit to monopolize how muricans get around right? cause what you said makes it seem like you didn't know either of things and you don't seem to want to acknowledge who the powerful are in murica and how they maintain their power.
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Kelvin Tell that to Nevada and Japan
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You don't have a point about nuclear power. If you are French your nuclear waste policy is abhorrent. Nuclear is an empty prayer to the secular god science to maybe absolve you tomorrow for the sins you refuse to stop committing today.
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@bartholomewdan Nuclear power is a scam suckers like you have clearly bought lock stock and barrel. It's never going to happen and it isn't because of spooky environmentalists. Nuclear power is a byproduct of nuclear weapons. It's never been anything more. It's not profitable, it's not environmentally sustainable, and the time it takes to get one plant online is well past the point the science types say the entire grid switch to renewables needs to happen.
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@damascus1111 I want the power held to the level of accountability commensurate to their level of power. But that's so unimaginable to all of you I have to have a step by step solution to the world's biggest problems before you care to consider that an option. Which is you defending the status quo.
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@alangivre2474 10% of each of their populations are perpetually hungry.
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@SlackActionBumble Lol your view of history is very broken. You are a zealot in service to your secular gods. Markets and technology. As if you can just pray hard to enough for them to solve the problems they created.
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@nickschilders937 If you think you sitting in traffic because your ownership class makes more money with you having a car than you having mass public transit. You need to drastically reevaluate what you consider prosperity.
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@bartholomewdan Ask Niger how France handles their nuclear waste
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@SlackActionBumble Lol what gave me away?
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@damascus1111 Laughs in Walmart
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@SlackActionBumble Guess which energy source I want to power our civilization? Spoiler, it's the same one we've depended on for the entire history of the planet.
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@bartholomewdan It seems you are going to die if you admit where and how power exists in your society. Since you are so adverse to seeing it.
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@chyza2012 Congratulations. You have internalized the anti politics propaganda your owners have spent the last 50 years trying to instill in people like you. It keeps you nice and incapable of threatening the status quo.
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@damascus1111 You don't have questions. You are JAQing off. Big difference. You just want to defend the status quo and are too much of a simp to even notice.
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@damascus1111 @Christian Holt I don't care what you want. If scrolling through 200(gasp!) Comments is too burdensome for you then you don't want anything to change. You want to consume some absolution for the unsustainable and unnecessary facets of your life. Then you'll get right back to being a passive force in your society. Literally none of the major decisions that govern your life were made by convincing you. They were done to you. Then after the fact you are fed a metric shitload of propaganda telling you it's best and you are too starved of options to even think to question it(let alone challenge it) You actually want to know what to do and how? Go to your local library and get some books on the subject. There are tons of them. If you won't even do that. Don't talk to me like change is impossible. When what you mean to say is you are too passive to consider change unless and until it is forced upon you like everything else in your life has been.
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@BlissBatch Don't let your corporate oligarchs unilaterally allocate international resources in an environmentally destructive way just because it makes them slightly richer than they already are. That would cause a huge reduction in emissions and improve the lives of millions of wage slaves you'll never meet.
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@ben8557 Laughs in bunker fuel and the magic pipe
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@MrGuitarbike The people who sell that trash(e.g your owners) to you are the ones who decide what you can consume. You are spouting the gospel according the lord god called markets. Who is a lying god in service to those who benefit most from lying to you. You owners. Nike doesn't have Bangladeshi slaves girls make their $200 shoes because you are cheap. They do it because it makes their already wealthy shareholders a few more ill gotten pennies than if those same shoes were made by some sexually harassed dame in Vermont.
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@damunzy There's no right wing argument to be had. Since their only take away from this is "If my lords decree manufacturing be done by slaves half a world away then so shall it be". They would only argue with each how best to further exploit the wage slaves so this stuff doesn't have to wait to be delivered. E.g increase working hours or put even younger back into the labor pool.
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@damascus1111 I gave you answers you don't like so you ignore them. Because you are trying to maintain your own inaction(which defends the status quo). Go simp for your masters somewhere else.
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@johnmorrell3187 Was that a question?
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@ben8557 You don't know about how international shipping actually works. That's totally understandable. There is a book called outlaw ocean that explains the magic pipe. Which you can get for free from your local library. Here is a link to an author talk if you won't to do some reading. https://youtu.be/3HvPcBvwEUw
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@Cal90208 So attack literally anything except the corporations who created these ridiculous enviromentally destructive supply chains specifically to give themselves more control over global resources? Way to simp for your owners.
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@Cal90208 Major corporations stop finding slave labor all across the globe just so they can further consolidate their own wealth and power at the expense of literally everyone else. Slaves in Vietnam do not have to make American shoes. It's only done that way so a few already wealthy ghouls get Slightly richer.
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@SlackActionBumble Fun fact. You don't have post scarcity today on basic essentials like clean food, water, and housing because your ownership class knows keeping that stuff from you is a tool to keep you slaving for their profit. Your daughter and every kid after her will curse your generation for resigning yourself to apathetic unthinkable unsustainable consumption simply because you are too timid to challenge your masters.
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@Baboner984 Laughs in bunker fuel
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@amistrophy Laughs in bunker fuel and the magic pipe.
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@SlackActionBumble You don't a thing about human history and it shows
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@JDWonders Lol you don't need magic powers or secular magic powers(super computer) to figure that out You just need to be part of the ownership class. They literally put it in every quarterly report for their largest investors. The issue is power. Who has it and what they do with it. Right now power is unquestionably in the hands of the largest holders of Capital. They have spent decades making it clear they will burn the entire world before they give up an iota of the wealth and power they have taken at the expense of literally everyone else.
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@laurasplicer712 To be clear it's power structures owned in whole by a minority of economic elite. Governments are the only institutions with even a pretense of being accountable to the public. Corporations and the large holders of Capital which control them are totally unaccountable to the public. Their central power structures are the problem.
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@gabrielalbeldaochoa8234 Yeah! You get it buddy. Globalism is just colonialism with a massive corporate propaganda budget behind it.
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@zezizarjaars Fun Fact. Those COP conferences(we just finished COP 26) have more fossil fuel delegates than they do delegates from actual nations. So guess whose interests are catered to? Spoiler. It's the interests of the owners of those fossil fuels.
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@bartholomewdan Hey how's simping for the status quo going? You still being an apathetic consumer of the trash your corporate masters sell you? Or did you finally make it to your local library to actually get some much needed education?
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@SlackActionBumble Screw your pleasure and entertainment. That was not and has never been a factor. Go ask the heroin users hooked by Perdue how what gives them pleasure and entertainment. Your owners decide what entertainment exists for you. They sell you pleasure by artificially denying you access to pleasures they can't unilaterally control.
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@SlackActionBumble Yeah they are you Dullard. Or did you not notice that outside national parks hiking is considered criminal trespass. Keeping you off of land was one of the first things Capitalists did.
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@theodiscusgaming3909 Seize the means of production you Dullard.
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@55dbk It'll happen the only way it can happen. Workers like you stop simping for your the sake of your masters death cult and actually try to liberate yourselves. Duh.
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@55dbk Lol we exploit those workers for profit to help them. They aren't slaves. They can work or die. That's totally different than being human property. Unless you count chocolate production, the global fishing industry, mining for rare earth minerals. Also shoe and cotton production. They all still use literal slavery. If we care what Those bleeding heart liberal organization that study the matter have to say on the matter anyway. But your masters have told you all those slaves totally don't meet the narrow limited definition they tell you counts as slavery, and clearly they should be trusted to decide that for you. It's not like they have a literal financial interest in telling you the things they do to people half a world away who you don't care about are actually benefiting from being exploited.
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@55dbk Stop killing the rest of the natural world in service to your masters. Easy solution you can literally do today if you cared to. Which you don't.
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@starstudiosRPG An argument implies the dullards who are blind to the powers that govern their lives have a position based in anything other than their obvious ignorance. Which they do not have.
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@SStoj That doesn't do jack shit to help the other workers being exploited by your masters you dullard. Trying to beat capitalism in a capitalist system by doing capitalism but with a different profit structure literally changes nothing about capitalist exploitation of workers(and the rest of the natural world) SEIZE the means of production. The ruling class has made it clear they will literally burn the entire world before they let a handful of already wealthy ghouls make slightly less money. That cannot be allowed to continue.
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Endless growth is the fundamental basis of Capitalism and cancer. They both have the same outcome.
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GreasySax I mean, imagine what a dumpster fire their comments would be without moderation.
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