Idk spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories lowkey exacerbates the problem. What else should money be but fake? That’s what money is. Your food and water is not being poisoned.
What should we do, reintroduce the gold standard? Awful, impractical and counterproductive. We can hunt for a nondescript evil hooded figure pouring poison in our drinking water but we won’t find them.
Our food is unhealthy because capitalism doesn’t reward production of healthy nutritious foods, it rewards maximizing profits and oligarchs lobby governments and design their own regulation. Banks are allowed to create money but governments refuse to because of neoliberal ideology being pushed by powerful elites. These structures are real, known and we can fight them.
Disguising our problems as unsurmountable and untargetable evils makes us helpless. Identifying our problems specifically gives us actionable goals.
Now the pedophile thing is true tho, so hard agree there lol
Idk what misinformation and conspiracy theories you’re referring to here are. Yes, food is literally being poisoned, and there’s an ongoing class action about it in the US right now.
You make a good point. Maybe it’s the tone that put me off. I know too many people who go off on rants that sound similar, who don’t bother actually understanding what’s wrong with the world and as a result have no idea what capitalism even is. But that’s clearly not you
Idk spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories lowkey exacerbates the problem. What else should money be but fake? That’s what money is. Your food and water is not being poisoned.
What should we do, reintroduce the gold standard? Awful, impractical and counterproductive. We can hunt for a nondescript evil hooded figure pouring poison in our drinking water but we won’t find them.
Our food is unhealthy because capitalism doesn’t reward production of healthy nutritious foods, it rewards maximizing profits and oligarchs lobby governments and design their own regulation. Banks are allowed to create money but governments refuse to because of neoliberal ideology being pushed by powerful elites. These structures are real, known and we can fight them.
Disguising our problems as unsurmountable and untargetable evils makes us helpless. Identifying our problems specifically gives us actionable goals.
Now the pedophile thing is true tho, so hard agree there lol
Idk what misinformation and conspiracy theories you’re referring to here are. Yes, food is literally being poisoned, and there’s an ongoing class action about it in the US right now.
Maybe actually read the thread before commenting? I’ve literally addressed this here https://lemmy.ml/post/43791761/24225658
You make a good point. Maybe it’s the tone that put me off. I know too many people who go off on rants that sound similar, who don’t bother actually understanding what’s wrong with the world and as a result have no idea what capitalism even is. But that’s clearly not you
For the record, I absolutely do hate living in a world where conspiracy theorists got things mostly right but for completely wrong reasons.
I feel that