#consumerism
He likewise provided a liberal education for the sons of the chiefs, and showed such a preference for the natural powers of the Britons over the industry of the Gauls that they who lately disdained the tongue of Rome now coveted its eloquence. Hence, too, a liking sprang up for our style of dress, and the toga became fashionable. Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance, they called civilization, when it was but a part of their servitude.
Agricola
Tacitus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Agricola#21
#agricola #tacitus #history #civilisation #consumerism #occupation #romans #britons #uk #empire ">
REMINDER
Arriving soon.
BUY NOTHING DAY
- Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent with Black Friday; elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November.
Date: Friday, November 24, 2023
quick,
destroy more,
make shoddier,
replace sooner,
externalities, externalities, externalities,
rebrand the devil angelic,
keep telling the slaves they're free,
destroy the competition,
suppress the innovations that obsolete the rents.
look at all that churn.
look at all that wealth transfer.
pay no attention to the orders magnitude more wealth destroyed.
keep calling wealth extraction maximisation "profit".
keep calling poverty a virtue to the impoverished.
keep saying the churn is progress and riches.
trot out worshippers of the Gross Domestic Product.
dont you just love capitalism?
maybe capitalist barons care.
maybe this psycho is best.
believe harder. the lies are true.
buy more.
stay dependent,
on your abuser,
because they took everything.
dont you just love capitalism?
#digitspoems #capitalism #churn #GDP #TheCorporation #ThePsychopath #wealthextractionmaximisation #poverty #marketing #advertising #plannedobsolescence #dependence #austerity #rentierism #rents #barons #bigbaron #buy #buybuybuy #consumerism #economics #freedom #deception #emancipation #oppression #orwellianism
Matt Kennard ~ The Dark Secret Corporations Don't Want You To Know
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zFXe2qxxxW4
#mattkennard #secret #corporations #democracy #corporate-power #greed #profits #wto #capitalism #consumerism
House in a skip: even tiny homes can’t address the privilege and insecurity of the housing market
Marshall has explained that converting a skip was the only way he could afford to live in London. Skip House reportedly cost £4,000 to build, and he pays £50 per month to an arts charity in rental fees for the land.
He has a portaloo onsite, but no running water, so showers at the gym or at work. This is not many people’s idea of luxury, but it is a creative solution.
Many see the idea of a tiny house as a counter-cultural statement against consumerism and the housing market – and the culture of overwork required to finance these two things. Tiny houses can act as a beacon highlighting a simpler, more sustainable way of life.
Marshall’s ability to find and come to an agreement with the arts charity that owns the land he is renting is made possible, in part, by what sociologists term his “social and cultural capital”, as a white, educated, man.
The tiny house movement embodies a complex mixture of counter-cultural ideals, economic pragmatism and the entrenched sheltering of privilege. They are not a fix-all, but neither should they be dismissed out of hand.
#TinyHomes #housing #social #culture #consumerism #CapitalismFails #CounterCultural #coop
Capitalism Makes You Complicit in Destructive Consumerism
https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=YZ3hyeH5t7g (clip)
Economics For A New Year (full episode)
#democracy-at-work #economic-update #capitalism #complicit #consumerism #planned-obsolescence #profit
#Mastercard launches #SmileToPay system amid #privacy concerns | Fintech | The Guardian
Another abuse of #FacialRecognition but many will fall victim to it, I expect. This one is akin to #BraveNewWorld.
Nowadays, the pressure to commodify ourselves can be seen in the obsession with influencer culture, plastic surgery, and going viral. Instead of rejecting this culture of commodification, we have actually embraced it, encouraged it, and accepted it as a part of the new normal.
#social-media #surveillance-capitalism #exploitation #consumerism
English version of my book is now available here (beware, it's based!)
.odt version has the latest typos fixes.
#nwo #newworldorder #nihilism #immoralism #amoralism #moralrelativism #transhumanism #singularitarianism #ancap #globalism #neoliberalism #capitalism #feminism #freedom #satanism #nietzsche #lgbt #progressivism #consumerism #stirner
Well It’s quite a lot of it, I used the hashtags that at least partially relevant or may partially describe ideas I promote.
Fossil fuel firms among biggest spenders on Google ads that look like search results
The Guardian
One in five ads served on search results for 78 climate-related terms placed by firms with interests in fossil fuels, research finds.
Fossil fuel companies and firms that work closely with them are among the biggest spenders on ads designed to look like Google search results, in what campaigners say is an example of “endemic greenwashing”. (...)
Advertisers pay for their ads to appear on the search engine when a user queries certain terms. The ads are appealing to businesses because they are very similar in appearance to search results: more than half of users in a 2020 survey reported they could not tell the difference between a paid-for listing and a normal Google result. (...)
However, Shell’s net-zero strategy relies heavily on carbon capture and offsetting, according to a Carbon Brief analysis, which says: “Despite its ‘highly ambitious’ framing … Shell’s vision of a continued role for oil, gas and coal until the end of the century remains essentially the same.” (...)
“Since at least the 1980s in the US, there has been a very concerted effort by public relations agents to help polluting companies develop strategies to ‘go green’ while maintaining business as usual.
“Many of the initiatives companies are taking are very piecemeal and will not amount to any kind of long-term or systemic change.” (...)
The analysis also looked at “snippets”, which are not paid-for but are chosen by Google’s algorithm as the most relevant result. The Guardian found the snippet chosen for “fracking” linked to the website of an oil and gas lobby group, the Independent Petroleum Association of America. (...)
A years-long piece of research by the US Environmental Protection Agency concluded in 2016 that in some cases fracking had harmed drinking water supplies.
Unlike Facebook, Google does not have a publicly accessible ad library, meaning it is difficult to analyse advertising on the platform. (...)
> See also: The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing (The Guardian)
Tags: #capitalism #environment #pollution #waste #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #cop26 #global_warming #aur_pollution #neoliberalism #market_fundamentalism #inequality #cerrado #desert #rivers #amazon #co2 #nox #fossil_fuel #deforestation #brazil #brasil #flooding #heat_dome #extreme_weather #forest_fires #media #carbon_footprint #oil_industry #lobby #desinformation #economic_growth #consumerism #citizen #protest #Fridays_for_Future #Green_New_Deal_Rising #Extinction_Rebellion #ExxonMobil #Royal_Dutch #shell #Aramco #Goldman_Sachs #google #greenwashing #McKinsey #Independent_Petroleum_Association_of_America #alphabet #snippets #google_snippets #lobby
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