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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Share Funny Videos, Images, Memes, Quotes and more @lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago

Just capitalism working as intended

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Just capitalism working as intended

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Share Funny Videos, Images, Memes, Quotes and more @lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago
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  • nothingcorporate@lemmy.today
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    The shock doctrine. Private equity will buy up land for pennies on the dollar, they’ll drive out poor people, install charter schools, replace normal houses with mansions and built-to-AirBNBs.

    All this has happened before and all this will happen again.

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    There was one post where I learned that several sites were locking information about the fires behind paywalls. Commenter went to 3 or 4 sites before finding one they could actually read.

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    Don’t they have paid firefighters for the rich and volunteers for everyone else? I think I remember hearing about Oprah’s property being protected first when Hawaii was burning last. I would expect something similar in California. Money talks.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      It’s not volunteers actually, it’s prisoners being used as forced labor https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/la-wildfires-incarcerated-firefighters

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        You mean slaves?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          yup

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        IIRC i read somewhere that these prison people volunteered, actually.

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      Most of firefighters in California, at least those fighting wildfires, are prison inmates, which is constitutionally slave labour.

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      That is all true, but I think OP is talking about news channels monetizing wildfire

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