Flammie A Pirinen on github pages
As a starting point I am not very political person and that applies for ideologies like capitalism too. However, sometimes it is unavoidable to having to discuss such things or make a stand.
Your investment gets profit on spreading pandemic and killing people.
One of the most obvious thing to happen during corona pandemic of early 2020’s is that it really brought out have badly system like capitalism fares on things like health care. At points we seen it so bad that even countries like the USA were willing to wave intellectual property rights on the vaccines so everyone could produce it and we would’ve gotten the whole world vaccinated order of magnitude faster, it didn’t happen because some other home countries of pharmaceutical companies that earned billions from the vaccine did not let it happen. Weirdly enough this has not been mentioned in the news except as a side clause during one week. And this is hardly the only capitalism fail in corona pandemic, in fact I was kind of hopeful we would overturn capitalism a bit more during it. Here’s a few examples:
Your investment gets profit on annoying people and collecting protection money.
Advertisments baffle me. There’s literally no person that likes them. Yet in capitalistic systems more ads is better, is this an example of capitalistic system distillating to best for all users, when you are forced to watch something you really don’t like and charged protection money monthly to avoid it?
Google (Alphabet) is one of the biggest companies on earth. 99 % of their profit comes from advertisments. The advertisments value to google is so high, that they will give advertisers privilege to give fake information and scams to people before the actual useful search results, if you search about what to do in case of serious injury you might get three ads of products that will probably kill you before you get to health information. Or, if you live in 2021 and search for the forms you need to fill for international travel Google will show you two three scam sites that steal your money before the actual government’s form, ad’s are so important to google they actually make people travel illegally and spread pandemic to scam you rather than help you!
Social media like facebook these days shows more Sponsored content than real content. This is just ads. And these ads often are made to look like news or something. And they can be serious stuff, political fake news, anti vaxination propaganda, etc.
Your investment gets profit on keeping people alone and lonely.
Your investment gets profit on keeping people sick.
Your investment gets profit on keeping people homeless (or in sub-standard housing they pay for monthly and will never own or have real right to use to full extent).
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-loses-sonos-patent-case-starts-stripping-functionality-from-speakers/
Airtravel is embarassing and it has nothing to do with people flying and everything to do with companies. It has to be said, since in 2020s it is very much on trend to flight shame poor people who manage fly once or twice a year to meet family, have a vacation or meet work colleagues, it was never about that and always about the companies. If it were about private people’s flying, wouldn’t 2 years of pandemic and travel ban have fixed it all?