General Discussion

Who covers the stories now?
Who owns them?
Who has final editorial say - the board or an assclown like Bezos?

What is wrong is that we are living at the end of capitalism and the dawn of a massive war to replace it. The facts are that capitalism remains a massive wealth and power accumulator machine and that its sole purpose is NOT competition and fair markets (it is laughably naive to believe that and imminently evil to spew it) - the sole purpose of capitalism is concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands, period.

If the purpose was to generate the most beneficial results for society or to make the rewards of being a citizen in a particular country have ACTUAL, TANGIBLE benefits...then maybe there would be something to build on and fight to save. But protecting property rights and providing for the top 0.01% to buy the rule of law while young people are made debt slaves and priced out of even a possible escape hatch (when the ability to buy a home is made unattainable, society is nothing more than a fancy debt prison) and simultaneously gutting the very things like our university system and science research capabilities to ensure no one thinks too much or questions the suicide path we are set on is inherently evil to the core.

I wish it were as simple as banana distribution that could save us, but we have insane banana distribution coupled to an evil head monkey cabal using propaganda and influence to convince the squeaking by monkeys that the REAL problem is not that 1 monkey has 800,000 times more bananas than one could eat in 10 lifetimes...no, the REAL problem is that poor monkey in the corner suckiing the rotted brown goop out of discarded peels...THAT is the problem.

Unless the youth of the planet rise up and overthrow the status quo, there are people alive today that will be part of the final generation of humans not born into a dystopian hell hole of death, privation and extinction. No, I don't believe that comment is hyberolic overkill...I sincerely believe that humanity is seeding its own demise one mindless scroll at a time.