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  • NAXLAB@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlKnow your enemy
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    11 months ago

    Then you are extremely lucky, as am I. I have enough money saved up that I took a break.

    However, something like 40% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and just don’t have that option. The threat of poverty is constantly chasing them. When you’re in that situation, you will take the best option available even if it’s garbage or next to garbage.


  • NAXLAB@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlKnow your enemy
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    11 months ago

    The main argument is that we are in a system of people who are way more powerful than us, and have largely taken away our options until we agree. We’re facing widespread protests and international strikes right now because we don’t like the options they’ve given us, and we’re trying to change the system.

    Just because somebody takes away your options until you agree, doesn’t mean they aren’t forcing you. Just because you happen to be satisfied with what you have, doesn’t mean that something better is not being denied from you, even though it is possible for you to have it.











  • “that it’s a true representation of what someone saw.”

    Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but photography has never ever ever been a “true” representation of what you took a picture of.

    Photography is right up there with statistics in its potential for “true” information to be used to draw misleading or false conclusions. I predict that a picture with this technology may carry along with it the authority to impose a reality that’s actually not true by pointing to this built-in encryption to say “see? the picture is real” when the deception was actually carried out by the framing or timing of the picture, as has been done often throughout history.