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the prima donna scientist. mother of mankind. offline is another state of mind.
CRYPTOBROS SMH I am going to strap all of you down to a chair A Clockwork Orange style and force you to learn the history of political economy. EAT YOUR DAMN VEGETABLES.
Some friendly (albeit unpopular here) light economic theory for anyone who is willing to read: the reason (online) communities with vague moralistic platitudes (like this one) are attractive to us as individuals is because they are a way of managing alienation. What is alienation? It is the Marxist theory that describes the experience of human life as meaningless or the human self as worthless in modern capitalist society. It’s that melodrama you can’t quite articulate-it’s why you feel so disconnected or disheartened by “the system.” The fundamental misinterpretation of this feeling is why men like Andrew Tate have gotten so popular. We all feel this feeling. Even the richest among us. This is why some, despite having achieved “success” or a state of perceived “freedom” still develop addiction problems and are compelled to acquire more and more material value-this is a subconscious reaction to the contradiction of their automated role within capitalism. Alienation is beyond all of us as individuals. The theoretical basis of alienation is that a worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own those items of value from goods and services, produced by their own labor. Although the worker is an autonomous, self-realized human being (this is the basis of the philosophy behind economic liberalism->neoliberalism->libertarianism->ancap), as an economic entity this worker is directed to goals and diverted to activities that are dictated by the bourgeoisie (capitalists)-who own the means of production(land, labor, capital, equipment, technology, IP)-in order to extract from the worker the maximum amount of surplus value (profit) in the course of business competition among industrial capitalists (finance capitalists)
SAG-AFTRA called for a strike in solidarity with the writers guild LFG. Support collective bargaining. Support the workers whose labor is the ONLY REASON society exists. Go to hell Bob Iger you worthless little worm.
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson (1993) Chapter One 
I walk down the street. 
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. 
I fall in. 
I am lost. . . . I am helpless. 
It isn't my fault. 
It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter Two 
I walk down the same street. 
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. 
I pretend I don't see it. 
I fall in again. 
I can't believe I am in this same place. 
But, it isn't my fault. 
It still takes a long time to get out. Chapter Three 
I walk down the same street. 
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. 
I see it is there. 
I still fall in . . . it's a habit . . . but, 
my eyes are open. 
I know where I am. 
It is my fault. 
I get out immediately. Chapter Four 
I walk down the same street. 
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. 
I walk around it. Chapter Five 
I walk down another street.
I see y’all have made more guides for Damus but this Nostr Damus ecosystem is still too confusing for most normies to parse thru quickly. Too many lengthy walls of text n explanations are too abstract. And any GitHub pointers might as well be invisible. I don’t want to have to do an external search to find bare bones resources, way too much effort. It is exhausting pretending to be dumb sometimes. 😔
It kills me that the general population doesn’t understand the difference between private and personal property. Or that advocating for the end of capitalism isn’t equivalent to advocating for the end of competitive markets.
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