sahin

We are living in a world owned by tech companies. People have 6 hours of screen time on average, mostly spent in capitalist apps like Fb Google Amazon Insta Reddit Youtube Chatgpt etc, and these companies shape people's opinions.
Without owning these apps, or creating an alternative that people use, it is very hard to change anything, because they can manipulate people easily, and actually people became zombies with this much screen usage.

So what is the plan? How can we create alternatives? Is there a socialist development movement? Or how can we own the existing companies? How can the govnments use these companies in a socialist environment?

One of them is the increased number of people caring for mental status, but the other one is, we are living in an era that requires long hours of computer usage which is against the living way of an ADHD person. We need to walk, go out, spend energy, but nowadays we have to stay in an office, look at a screen, which is so boring.

I think, with the enough propaganda and media power, one can elect a monkey to be leader.

Possible propagandas:

• This is the smartest monkey ever
• Monkey is from the God
• Monkey will not be bribed
• The other candidate is a t.rrorist
• Look at this monkey, it has a viral dance on Tiktok
• It would be so fun and cool to elect a monkey

I think, we can increase these propagandas. At the end, with media power, even a monkey can be elected.

Do you agree? What is the worst person, or thing we can elect with infinite media power?

Voting makes you think your opinion matters while you vote, but it actually doesn't matter. Voting makes you think you can change something, but it doesn't change anything. Voting makes you think you should wait for a lot of time to change something in elections, while you can strike right away and shouldn't wait for elections. Voting makes you think you are living in a free democratic country, but it is actually a monarchy and dictatorship.

Do you think the votes are really 49-51% randomly? Or do you ever think it might be intentional. They have all the media, all the power, they can make you think whatever they want.
What they do is, give you two shitty options, make you vote for them 49-51% and do whatever they want and make you fight each other while they are doing the things that you hate.
People are fighting like "if you hadn't voted for this guy, that wouldn't have happened" but it would have happened again, because the other side is also working for the same guys.

Do not vote. Do not wait for elections. Go on strike right away. Stop following media, stop following politics, if your life sucks nobody will change it but you.

The poor has no friends other than the poor. Do not become enemy to your poor/worker friend, even if they support the other political party, even if they are minority that you dont like.

Edit: I really do not understand. I told people we can elect a monkey if we had media, and they upvoted it: https://lemmy.world/post/43003985 While, when I tell people voting doesnt work and we should stop doing it, it is downvoted. This doesnt make sense. Media can make people elect a monkey, but we should still go vote??

It took more than 3 days to finish this, but I removed nearly all my data from reddit. I dont wanna share my knowledge and time with toxic companies that are owned by the few

I see posts, telling that worker's productivity has increased over the years. While you might think this is good news, it is actually very bad news for us - slaves. We are slaves, we need the rich to need us. When we work efficiently, they don't need us any more. 1 person can do 10 people job, the rest 9 will be hungry, because the only way to own something is to work. They don't let you live happily without the fear of hunger, while not working because there isn't job for everybody, because why would they? They prefer dumping the food to trash, instead of giving it to us. They prefer houses staying empty, while we are begging for a house.

So, we need more ways to create the need for us. This is the only solution that works for us. Demolishing things might be one way, slowing down production can be other way.

The best way? Redistributing wealth. But I dont know how that will happen.

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I will delete my accounts, but beforehand I wanted to update the comments I made. I have 5+ years of reddit history, all will be deleted. I am so sad :( But I dont want to share my data any more

Can we achieve something similar to human intelligence?

I was imagining about a movie about the rich, what they do, what they talk behind the closed doors, how they effect the poor, how they influence govn and corporations, how they create the actors, singers, and create the songs that most of us listen to. How they create the movies to influence us. How they stop movements of the poor people.

What are your ideas? What would be in that movie? It is imaginary, but I'd love to hear from you:)

So, I work hard, my ass off, 5 days a week, 11 months a year, and I pay 1/3 or 1/4th of it so that pidophiles dont pay taxes.
Income tax, VAT, property selling tax are all theft. There is no logic behind it.
The taxes that should exist is: Wealth tax, nature tax for the businesses that damage nature, and that is it. And no tax should be over 5%.
Wealth tax: 0%, income tax: 30% this is unacceptable. You either pay no taxes or you pay everything as tax.

I actually calculated it, and yearly 2.5% of wealth tax should be enough. And also, countries have a lot of resources, that also can help their budget, like mines or rented lands that are owned by government etc.

If we taxed wealth, not work, we could buy our houses way easier, we could buy land way easier, we could find a job way easier because we are not gonna pay income and vat, businesses will be able to hire people freely, and everybody can own a business easily. Nowadays, if you are poor it is so hard to create a business. You have a lot of expenses.