It’s not corruption. It’s capitalism functioning as intended. It’s internal contradictions are not corruption. They are features the capitalist class exploits; for as long as the rest of us allow.

This is a misunderstanding of what “wealth” actually is for the capitalist class. You are imagining the dollar value as a means to purchase commodities. It makes sense if you think of money as a means of holding the value of labor. You’re interaction with money is in earning a wage doing labor. You then use that money to purchase the things you require to survive. You use that money to get the products of other peoples labor. Money for you is a means of holding the value of your labor.

This is not the relationship with money that the capitalist class has. Money is not a result of their labor. It is a result of their extraction of value from the labor of others. They are not concerned with their ability to “afford” something. They are concerned with their ability to maintain power within the capitalist class.

The dollar value of their wealth is measured in the control within that class structure. The measure of their wealth is the measure of exploitation and influence they have over the rest of society.

So, yes, it’s not dollar value trillion in a bank account. But that doesn’t matter. At the degree of wealth we are talking about it doesn’t matter if you use USD or bottlecaps; just so long as you’re measuring it consistently to describe the power and influence that unit of measurement describes.

Saying “they aren’t really a trillionaire” isn’t really meaningful. Money is fake. We made it up. Society accepts this measurement as a measure of describing the fucked up distribution of resources. That’s all this term is really describing.

Saying “they aren’t really a trillionaire” is basically just saying “they don’t really have this much control over us”. When, yes, my every material metric they do.

I really hope the revolution comes before we have to update this meme to quadrillionaire.

Money has never been more fake. But it will be more fake tomorrow than it was today.

I agree its a term that definitely let’s people know what you’re talking about without having to explain it. It’s a common experience and the term fits well in describing it.

I understand the sensitivity of young adults in disliking the term though. My generation had “fail-ennial”. Both are placing blame on the generation so the elder generation doesn’t have deal with the worsening material conditions the new generation faces. “Millennials just don’t want to work hard”. “Gen Z is socially isolated”.

It’s simple explanations that direct blame onto the individuals of a generation so we don’t have to address the material reasons that make it so common.

We’re obviously using “bike” to mean a vehicle allowed in a bike lane. Is a trike not allowed in a bike lane? Better ban these!

When people here are saying that the OP vehicle is “not a bike” we are saying it exceeds the limits of what should be allowed to occupy bike infrastructure.

Also, it’s not about physical labor. It’s about the CHANGE to the required physical labor and who is paying for it. The job just got more physically intense and I promise you the pay isn’t going up enough to compensate for that.

I don’t understand replies like this. I mean do you get on the internet and look for comments you can purposely misunderstand?

I hate these from a workers rights perspective. Safety, exploiting workers literal calorie intake to offset energy cost, if the vehicle is this big it’s not at all reasonable to call this a bike. I’m sorry. I hate this. It’s only purpose is for Amazon to capitalize on and destroy cities that have begun to build good bike infrastructure. Ban these now. Or significantly reduce their size. They’re going to bother both cars and bikes because these will be blocking bike paths EVERYWHERE and driving slowly on streets with cars. This is literally a situation that car and bike people can unite on. Fuck this.

Yeah. I didn’t coin the term. Just an Internet meme. I don’t think it’s really fair to pick on Gen Z in my opinion. I just think they get attributed to it more often. It’s more of a “post pandemic stare”. Like, I really think isolation and long COVID symptoms did something to our society.

Sometimes I have to ask myself “am I invisible?” when I’m looking someone in the face saying “excuse me” and they just stare like a robot. Like, they don’t even have to say something. I’m literally just trying to pass them in the aisle they are blocking. It’s kind of creepy. I get this as a 6’3" guy with a deep voice too. It’s not like I’m hard to see or hear.

Well, they end up on the chair when I have to use the dryer once a week to clean my bed sheets.

Exactly what it sounds like. Ask asking a simple question or trying to do small talk with a stranger; and they just stare at you like you like their brain is “buffering”.

Or anyone one of technology connections multiple videos on dishwashers.

https://youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8

Warning: it’s ADHD and autism bait. You may get lost for hours learning about dishwashers.

https://github.com/stashapp/stash

Tell that to the big pile of clean clothes I have sitting on my chair that long to be folded.

If the LLM makes all your decisions you can also just blame the LLM for the shitty date plans. It’s cognitive offloading but it’s also offloading any responsibility for them as a person.

This shit is making me feel crazy. Between COVID, AI, and now being met with young adults that just do the “Gen Z stare” - I don’t feel like I’m living with humans anymore sometimes.

Imagine the AI gets an update and you get 10 years for a crime someone else got 2 years for the exact same crime.

Oh. Nevermind. That’s just called being black in Mississippi today.

Looking at graphs has never been this depressing.

If that’s your reaction to a joke comment - I don’t want you anywhere near me during the revolution.

I have a theory that if we just had magical powers of mind control we could make the world perfect.

That’s what this shit sounds like to anyone with a brain. I don’t get why people fall for this libertarian garbage about population.

capped the population

Unless you have magical mind controlling powers you can do this through positive or negative incentives.

Negative incentives (fines for having more children) just creates a class structure of rich people having more children. And eventually fails to slow down the population.

Positive incentives are entirely ineffective. People that want to have kids are gonna have kids.

Neither of these work. And especially don’t work long term. It’s why China ended it’s “one child policy”. A policy that they mostly regret implementing and it’s side effects are still causing issues to this day.

Or, the other alternative is - being a Nazi. Deciding who gets to reproduce and with who. Forcing abortions or chemical castration on the population. That method definitely works!

So, the next time you find yourself talking about “population limits” I want you to actually think of how that would be successfully implemented. Because it is ALWAYS devolves into Nazi shit.

It’s one of those dumb guy “common sense” ideas that actual Nazis try to spread. The “too many people” part always starts with first removing the “undesirable” people in the population.

Just get this “too many people” talking point out of your brain. Unless you want Nazis - there isn’t an actual way to obtain any type of “population cap”.

And there is no reason to even mention it when all it’s doing is presenting Nazis as a “solution” to a fake problem.

Make Make America Great Again Afraid.

Please stay inside the designated protest zone

(1) My comment wasn’t specifically about the person in the article.

(2) I’m using “iPad kid” in the colloquial sense. It’s not literally about when the iPad was released. There are plenty of Internet based media consumption products that were portable long before 2010.

It’s to mean growing up in the age of a media environment that profits specifically on keeping a child’s attention and parents that are exhausted from overwork using it as a means of calming them.

This has been true for all kids to some extent since the birth year of 2000. It’s not all kids. It’s not all parents. It’s different levels of intensity and at different ages of development. But, my point is around the general trend of more young adults that are experiencing less organic real world socialization.

It is the increased commodification of childhood. It is not unique to this generation but is growing significantly more intense. But, just as more of our adult lives are built into commodities (dating apps) so too are the lives of children. And one thing that is really easy to get from children is their addiction to watching media.