“They drive Mercedes Benz and Porsches*
Live Rolls Royce gilt-edged lives
You can tell the affluent effluent
By the status symbols that they drive “
(1988 - in 2025 “rich shits” in Teslas)
2025 (increase production, distribution and consumption of commodities to increase profits)
https://illogicalmachine.substack.com/p/more-faster-never-enough?
#automation #Amazon #BlameCapitalism #enshittification #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #SpeedUp
#ZuckerMuskian #ai
“Takers Not Makers: How Billionaires profit while billions struggle. https://www.oxfam.org.au/2025/01/takers-not-makers-how-billionaires-profit-while-billions-struggle/
Australia's 47 billionaires make an average $67,000 an hour, according to the report — a figure 1,300 times higher than that of the average Australian worker.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-20/oxfam-calls-for-australias-richest-to-pay-more-tax/104821814
#blameCapitalism #billionaires #Davos #WEF
#richpeoplesyachtmoney #taxtheRich
#Oxfam
Capitalists are always keen to “reduce the cost of labor”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters
#losangeles #2025 #wildfires #firefighters #incarceratedworkers #BlameCapitalism
#climateCrisis
Note; Walton Family Seven members combined wealth is $404.3 BILLION #WalMart
Source: Forbes Facts & Figures 2024 https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2024/04/02/forbes-38th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures-2024/
Billionaires of 2024
1. Elon Musk of #Tesla/X and SpaceX with $428.
2. Jeff Bezos of #Amazon $235.2
3. Larry Ellison of #Oracle $210.5
4. Mark Zuckerberg of #Meta $204.4
5. Larry Page of #Google $157.6
Dynasty
+ Walton Family Seven members combo $404.3 #WalMart
+ Mars Family Six members combo $130.4
+ Koch Family Two members combo $121.1 billion.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/08/349313/
Source: Forbes Facts & Figures
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2024/04/02/forbes-38th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures-2024/
Leon Lederman began to suffer from memory loss in 2011 and, after struggling with medical bills, he had to sell his Nobel Prize medal for $765,000 to cover the costs in 2015.[40][41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_M._Lederman
Source
40.
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/10/4/17936626/leon-lederman-nobel-prize-medical-bills
The Unholy Alliance Between Oil, Tobacco & Sports, Arts (for profit of Capitalists )
This injustice may yet cause unrest ?
Poverty in Australia
(2024 Probably 4 million struggling & many more working poor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia#:~:text=19.3%25%20after%20benefits.-,Henderson%20Inquiry,child%20endowment%20for%20two%20children.
Henderson poverty line = $612.10 a week for a single person…
median weekly rent value across all Australian dwellings is $627 a week…
price of food was up more than 17% for households…
Profiteering regardless of human and social consequences may become hazardous to CEOs Tyrants & War Criminals?
#healthinsurance #unitedhealth #CEOs
#blameCapitalism #Ai #richpeoplesyachtmoney
“Deny, Defend, Depose”
$10,000 is the reward all law enforcement agencies give. (They give the same amount for burglary.)
Shows how much such people care that a health insurance C.E.O. was murdered.
#Enshittification - #Singapore franchise ?
https://www.cnbc.com/advertorial/innovate-stagnate/
“Singapore: an affluent microcosm whose citizens inhabit something that feels like, well, #Disneyland. Disneyland with the #deathpenalty.” — Gibson, William. 1993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penalty
#YesMen Hoax on #BBC Reminds World of #DowChemical’s Refusal to Take Responsibility for #Bhopal Disaster
https://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/6/yes_men_hoax_on_bbc_reminds
Lessons
1 Paranoia is seldom a good idea
2 The media will have their own story, but you can shape it
3 The only story you can count on lasting is the one you tell
4 If you must lie (and you must), lie honorably
5 A campaign takes a long time to win; one action is just a small part of it
6 Take your lead from movements you respect
PetroStates & Plutocrats pro-plastic politicians push Profits
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/25/fears-grow-over-rising-number-of-oil-lobbyists-at-un-plastic-pollution-talks
More https://www.theguardian.com/environment/plastic
Note: 2023, global plastics market was valued at 712 billion U.S. dollars. projected to reach a value of more than 1,050 billion U.S. dollars by 2033
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1060583/global-market-value-of-plastic/
( Giant Plastic Tap - Benjamin Von Wong, April 2024 #Ottawa Photograph: Dave Chan )
#blamecapitalism #cracking #environment #fracking #fossilfuels #microplastics #nanoplastics #pollution
