Last year in Brazil a rich right wing white man opened fire on the federal police and even threw grenades at them.
Here's a picture of him talking to the police after the shooting (he's the old guy on the left): https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2022/10/ED_VIS_241022_IL_PF_JEFFERSON_frame_935.jpeg?w=876&h=484&crop=1
I wonder what would have happened to him if he was a poor black man.
It's sad that the only two alternatives that you can think of are killing people or "letting them get away without anything".
American solution: put the 3yo in prison for forced labour and arm all 1 year olds so they can defend themselves.
When you don't have the truth at your side, you gotta resort to something else.
While I agree that we have a duty to avoid unethical brands whenever possible, there's just no way to escape them all. I live in a poor country and I there's a lot of "bad stuff" I have to buy just because it's what I can affford at the moment.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
I work with online sales and that's not what happens at all. Fake discounts just works, sadly, and people just won't learn. I don't really know why, maybe they use the "discount" as an excuse to themselves just to buy more stuff.
Work until you have no more energy left to live. Wait for your day off from work to live. Don't live because you have no energy left (plus the anxiety from having to work the next day). Feel like shit because you wasted your day off.
Repeat, repeat, repeat and die.
Shit, I already knew most of those graphs but I got sad anyway. I feel trapped.
The moment I start seeing Meta content here is the moment I leave. People are being very, VERY naive in thinking that the Fediverse is immune to corporate interest. Judging by the Mastodon response, we are already seeing that it's not.
We drive our cars and planes
And burn the fossil fuels
We ignore the scientists
And call them climate fools
We chop down all the forests
And fill the seas with trash
We melt the polar ice caps
And watch the glaciers crash
We suffer and we will die
From the heat as we get older
But hey, at least we created a lot of value
For our dear shareholders
I'm poor, living in a 3rd world country, with no money for air conditioning. What the fuck am I supposed to do.
Guess I'll just have to enjoy (lol, like I can) the few years I have left.