Comradeship // Freechat

Capitalism breeds so much innovation that the fossil fuel industry spends billions on propaganda and needs more billions to keep functioning even though they receive billions in profit. It breeds so much innovation that the industry has now know for decades that their products cause permanent damage to the environment and instead of developing a more climate friendly material they doubled down and lobbied, corrupted or outright killed everyone that tried to go against them. All in the name of profit.

Capitalism breeds so much innovation that 10 companies own the vast majority of what you eat, read and watch. It breeds so much innovation that ten people own as much as billions of other people combined.

So. Much. Innovation.

I saw a 60 minutes segment yesterday that made me cringe. So basically it was just jacking off some air purification company and treating their CEO as such an expert on the matter that it took me 5 minutes to tell that he wasn’t a government official from the CDC, because that’s how the host treated him. The CEO treats it like such a gamechanger for human health that it isn’t only progressive but profitable. So the whole thing was an ad for his air purification system to sell to land owners/ businesses. It’s a decent idea, but the fact that it’s being gatekept due to the greed of business owners/landowners (and the greed of this CEO for charging exorbitant prices for something that is supposed to be great for humanity’s future health) SHOULD be eye opening to more people as to what capitalism cares about. Money over everything. To clarify the ~~ad~~ segment was mostly about how helpful this would be with dealing with covid. They say “well we could all go back to work and not do online anymore” which basically admits that they don’t care about covid. If they did they’d be all for staying at home and keeping cases down. It also is just a way to be like “pls buy building space, pretty pls with a multi-thousand dollar cherry on top?”

People always say "capitalism breeds innovation" but I don't even know what a vation is nor why capitalism needs to breed in one

Innovation is 27 canned soup brands all owned by the same company and the "healthy" or vegan options cost 50-100% more.

Innovation is 15 different brands of phones that all run some half baked glitchy version of Android that loses half its battery charge life after 2 years so you have to buy a new one. But the Google Pixel is now on sale for $899.

Innovation is Voltwagon paying to fudge their emissions test because fuck the planet they got shareholders to please. They could be spending money on clean energy technology instead but yeah...

Innovation is DRM-based streaming services that all have the same slop but Netflix has cool shows they cancel after 2 seasons because altho they are really cool for the niche audience, they didn't bring in a gorbillion viewers.

I'll add more if I think of any.

It's true, my name is innovation and I get fucked by capitalism every day.