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  • dustyData@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldEmpathy? (y/n): _
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    9 days ago

    I was thinking about this recently and noticed something very interesting, as a thought experiment of sorts.

    For extremely rich and wealthy people, it is not actually about the money.

    I mean, it is about the money in the sense that money is the formal expression of something deeper. But there’s a shift, between having to think about money as a tool for survival, and having so much money that it’s no longer relevant day to day and it becomes a sort of score for a game of life.

    Certainly in mid and high level of management, executives, etc. money is the most important thing, they are hired and their livelihood, as well as their score, depends on them making the line go up and accumulating more and more money for the owner class. But for the owner class, it’s all about the status, how the score is going. It’s essentially a global level dick measuring contest. Of course they are not going to use the money for anything, they don’t care. Their empathy is gone, what they want is to get ahead on the game. It’s all about the narrative, the optics, the projection of influence and power.

    If it weren’t for money, it would be something else. Piety and ranks in theocracies, titles and land in the feudal times, honor and armies in feudal Japan, etc. It’s just so happens that modern globalist culture has settled on corporate financial wealth.

    There’s a sort of mind bug that humans are susceptible to, that pushes people into the pursuit of this affluent status, then eliminates all humanity left from the brain. Just to see who dies with the most points.






  • dustyData@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldDress Code
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    1 month ago

    Here’s the funny thing. The three piece suit was adopted by the politicians as an emulation of the dress code of “the common man”. Since most men wore plain suits and plain shirts for everyday dress, in contrast with aristocracy which dressed in fancier, more elaborate ways.

    It’s ironic that it became the new dress code for the oligarchs and powerful oppressors. And now the common people dress even plainer and simpler. They’re fighting over dressing in a symbol of modern political and financial oppression.







  • No I can’t guarantee it, and neither does Microsoft, Windows, nor any of the software you have ever used, for work or not. Read the TOS. You are given nothing, and all software, no matter how much you pay is “provided as is”. Which means they deny responsibility for bugs or misbehavior of their code. MS corporate contracts don’t sell guarantees, they sell support when something eventually goes wrong. They never promise the software will always 100% work because it opens them to legal liability. OneDrive, to keep the discussion on topic, doesn’t guarantee availability of your files, or their integrity, and even makes you agree to not sue them even if you lose all your data.