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Not US business financers tho

I mean capitalism is always facing crises like this, and uses whatever means necessary to overcome them. You’ll hear talk in bougie rags about “opening markets”, “creating markets”, etc, that’s often about weathering an overproduction crisis by offloading commodities somewhere else.

The marketing boom that helped create the hyperconsumerist society of the West was a way of dealing with overproduction by artificially bolstering consumption.

So, capitalism runs out of commons to enclose, it runs out of places to expand into, resources to process, people to buy the goods, etc; it finds or creates new commons, new frontiers, new markets. Technology will unlock new domains of expansion, each more abstract from the last. Some so abstract that they’ve lost all semblance of the original relationship they’re trying to simulate (NFTs). Wars will destroy infrastructure and allow capital to flow in, consolidate, rebuild, continue the process.

There’s not a single peak, more like an ebb and flow, creation and destruction. A fungal fractal expanding in every direction and every dimension.

uncompensated driving, commute times, etc

people don’t realize how much their car is costing them. IRS rate is like $0.60 a mile. running errands for work all day? 45-minute commute? yeah you’re effectively making less than minimum wage now

very difficult to get people to understand though

website and app bloat is really annoying

most corporate designers seem to think that the acceptable amount of ram usage is equal to whatever phones/computers are currently shipped with

so they don’t bother using resources on optimizing

polycule >>>>> multgenerational household

lmao this is a great bit account

It’s not that every psychological problem is directly due to capitalism (though many are directly or indirectly) it’s that capitalist psychology mostly cares about profitable treatments, whether they’re effective or not. I’m inclined to think some form of talk therapy or psychoanalysis may be more helpful to a lot of people than solely symptom-based treatment. But who can afford to go to therapy for years?

Even from the pharmaceutical side, we’re mostly just tweaking the mechanisms of consciousness without necessarily addressing or understanding the holistic structure, so the best we can hope for is trying various meds until one sort of works. But most of us can’t afford to spend years trying a new med every few months, with all the turbulence and uncertainty that goes along with it.

Cbt, dbt and the like are somewhat useful at treating certain symptoms, but generally fail to address root causes. And the way they’re often applied, they seem more intent on teaching people to accept their treatment under capitalism than anything.

I remember George Jackson detailing something like this in Blood in my Eye, but it was mostly theoretical

Consciousness is complex in a way that isn’t effectively modeled by insurance-mediated healthcare and science, which overemphasizes quantitative variables in a field that’s profoundly qualitative. Not to mention the obsession with the individual, ignoring the systems that individuals exist within.

Tbh I feel like that’s more a fault of capitalism than a shortcoming unique to psychology.

lmao couldn’t be more obvious

Assuming this is coming from a lack of friendship:

Start with a pet, if possible. Then work your way up.

Getting my cat a few years ago helped take the edge off so I didn’t come off as so desperate or distant (oscillating between the two extremes).

Then slowly picked up effective habits and retrained bad habits in interacting with people. Still working on it.

If you mean you feel lonely within your existing friendships, there’s a degree to which that is “normal” or at least somewhat universal. Some philosophers would say true connection with another person is fundamentally impossible. But even if that’s the case, we can find meaning and beauty in the process of trying to achieve the unachievable. Happiness comes not from finally filling an unfillable lack (a mythical ideal), but the novelty or enjoyment of the process.

I get shitbox Toyotas for under a couple grand and run them into the ground. Whatever maintenance I can afford.

I don’t trust cars nor roads nor drivers

:michael-laugh:

Ironically I think 20 hours is about the estimate for reading it if you read 300 wpm, iirc

Of course it’s pretty dense theory so most people aren’t gonna be reading at a fiction pace. Took me a few months to get through it.

To them, mild disagreement from a few people is equivalent to doxxing, years-long harassment campaigns, and mass shootings.

I agree with one exception:

There’s a certain type of person who has no coherent message, their whole purpose is to engage in bad faith. In that case any attempt to attack the message is futile due to the asymmetrical nature of disinformation. And the disinformation that spreads so effectively is often stuff that dials into people’s subconscious assumptions. So it’s not always obviously absurd to average people.

See Sartre’s description of how antisemites use this tactic:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

The difficulty people have, from what I’ve witnessed with federation, is differentiating good from bad faith users. And I see this very much from all sides: putting it broadly, people got used to a certain Overton window. Thus it’s easy to assume someone with a foreign opinion doesn’t actually hold that opinion, they’re just trolling or crazy. I think it’s best to assume good faith until proven wrong, otherwise the trolls have succeeded in their goal to poison all dialogue and exchange.

Another thing worth keeping in mind, Lemmy represents a major threat to corporate social media. The best way for this threat to be eliminated is if, in its infancy, it fragments and stagnates due to drama like this. It’s very easy to make an account on any instance, or multiple accounts.

It’s also been my impression that the meme of federation being impossible has taken up 95% visible discourse, with the perceived ills that the meme is based on only being like 5%. One of those things where a small problem is artificially blown up until it becomes the big problem it was falsely claimed to be. I’ve seen a few people voice this sentiment: that their only exposure to the drama is people complaining about the drama. I saw a similar suspicious phenomenon happen on Reddit a few times.

This is kinda a good example of how everything filters through material class relations, until something that was radical can end up supporting the system.

A study of Christianity (and I’m sure most religions) is very interesting for this dynamic, a thousand years’ tug of war between liberatory and repressive interpretations of doctrine, each subsuming the other in different ways (usually favoring the elites).

Hello from another red state rural commie!

Oh fuck I thought the mattress was a railing

Was thinking it wasn’t too bad, as a kid I always loved those kinda loft areas in bourgeois houses, even though they’re pretty impractical

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