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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 19:18:25 JST Aral Balkan

   Capitalism is the belief that a handful of psychopath billionaires trying to become psychopath trillionaires is somehow the best possible thing for all of us.

   Fuck that.

   Fuck that very much.

   #capitalism #billionaires #psychopaths

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 19:53:17 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Anthony DiPierro

     @anthony Ah, good old Tina :)

     Here’s just one, off the top of my head: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/alternative-capitalism-mondragon

   • Anthony DiPierro (anthony@taxodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 19:53:18 JST Anthony DiPierro

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     @aral It sucks, but what’s the alternative?

   • ⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴) (brucec01@theblower.au)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 22:50:39 JST ⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴)

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     @aral i’m sorry, but that is complete bullshit.
     That Is definitely not the description or definition of capitalism.
     I can point you in the direction to find the definition of capitalism if you’re interested.
     Don’t get me wrong, there are things that are fundamentally failing in our current implementation of capitalism, but that is actually more due to lack of government policy, or political donors … 🥂

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 22:50:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • ⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴)

     @BruceC01 Says the equity trader! I mean, you can’t make this shit up.

     *smh*

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 07:00:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • S&yO

     @SandyO Thatcher? Is that you?

   • S&yO (sandyo@urbanists.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 07:00:45 JST S&yO

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     @aral
     This is the place where you tell us about your alternative to Capitalism.

     Let’s hear it …

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 16:39:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • vagabond

     @Hamishcampbell It’s what I spend every day working on. At least one version of it that doesn’t/hasn’t existed yet and which I feel must:

     #SmallWeb

     https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

     https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-27/

   • vagabond (hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 16:39:44 JST vagabond

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     @aral maybe start with the #openweb here. This is what we are doing with the #OMN good to focus and not get lost in the noise. Lots of background on this in the project

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 20:51:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • scuba_nut53

     @scuba_nut53 Ah, George Carlin, what a legend.

   • scuba_nut53@mindly.social's status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 20:51:01 JST scuba_nut53

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     @aral Extremely rich folks/international corporations spend billions each year to purchase politicians ensuring that they will pay less in taxes than a public school teacher. Right wing media/propaganda was created by very rich folks/corporations so that middle class Americans will blame the poor, Muslims, liberals, women and anyone else but rich folks & corporations for the problems we have in America.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ltrdNp_v2g