A Boring Dystopia

9728 readers

749 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

108

Do We Really Want a Food Cartel? (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Just heard the interview on NPR. Worth a read.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

No innovation or competition comes from letting giant companies devour their rivals.

Exactly! It only helps people with too much already hobble competition to pocket even more for themselves at society's direct expense at those levels, while completely discrediting the primary supposed core tenant of capitalism we're indoctrinated from childhood to believe it provides: competition.

Civilization has been propagandized to forget that economies aren't supposed to exist to maximize capital extraction for private investors at society's expense, an economy is supposed to be a lowly tool of a society used to maximize the efficient and equitable distribution of goods and services within a society for the benefit of said society.

The tail is wagging the dog, and captured world governments loudly declare during any crisis that they will use all the power at their disposal to protect the well being of their beloved ~~societies~~ economies.

Just dwell on how perverse that ideology is. The entire point, the well being of human beings, is lost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Institutions survive long after their meaning has been lost. All of recorded history is nearly this identitical power struggle with abstractions applied as time goes on. We have been at this for nearly as long as society has existed. I have small hopes at this point, even our schools exist to prepare children for the factory line. We are so far down this backwards path it might kill us to turn around.