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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It has been unchecked corporate greed. If you just look around or follow twitter pages like more perfect union. Story after story of corporate greed and people coming together to try to make life fair and liveable.

They recently had one of some big corpos buying up all the land in a state to build their own crypto city. Even that land is for farming is ultra important. Now that group of corpos are suing the people for coming together and not selling.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So capitalism in anutshells.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And why is corporate greed allowed to exist? Capitalism. You were so close.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago

they want the peasant class to remain desperate and buried in debt, so they're forced to take shitty jobs with shitty pay just to get by

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was offered a job to teach at a college. Was a life long dream of mine (to teach). But the massive pay cut forced me to pass. Students should pay less, teachers should be paid more. I can't say for certain where the money's going, but it's not anywhere to the benefit of students that's for damn sure. And this is now becoming a problem with these for profit colleges. It's costs too much for students to go, and they pay to little to keep teachers. If you don't have teachers, you can't have students. If you have no students, you have no use for teachers. And since the bottom line is the only thing that's important, you lose entire departments. The college that was interested in me, is the one I went to. And they have maybe 25% of tech department left from when I went there. When I was there, there was networking, programming, server administration, desktop/server support, web design/e-commerce, etc. We had a new building and took up most of it. Now they have high turnover in teachers because they can't/won't pay them enough. Now they only have a general IT course to give you exposure to various things for the purpose of transferring the credit to a bachelors degree. And a Cybersecurity, Virtualization, & Networking course.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This person is soooo close to figuring out that the problem is capitalism. This is capitalism working as intended.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

As we all know, you can't make a critique of capitalism without including "capitalism bad" in your critique.

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[–] Chonk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

We need to rethink economy

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

So the money comes from being a middle-agent. I’d need a lot of capital to open a business where I could exploit my workers. Guess I’m not the target market for this economy.

[–] Lightrider@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Fuckingcapitalists

[–] philo@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

where are college professors living in their cars?

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't it 'Hear, hear" like hear this, not this place?

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