That is outrageous. US telecom companies need to be nationalized or burned down.

Their heads, if we play our cards right.

Workers taking smoke breaks is fine. Anything that gives workers more breaks is good. You can takethose breaks too. Just tell them its a smoke break. If management says anything, tell them you have just as much need for it as anyone who smokes. Don't get mad at your fellow workers. Get mad at the employer.

I will never be subjected to ads and I will never pay for YouTube. Give me a cut of all the money you generate off my data, then we can talk further.

Souls don't exist.

Wow, a score of -12 on the front page. Impressive

I suppose comment engagement is the big factor.

There is a bunch of that content on already! You're welcome to add to it.

What do you mean?

It's a decent article, but vague and lacking punch. The only through line is uncertainty. I want to see more articles like this and other signs that mainstream neoliberal ideology is faltering and crashing. Let's move that general sense when people consider the dominant economic order from uncertainty about its effectiveness and value to certainy about its real and irreconcilable contradictions and failings.

Clare Woodcraft, a fellow at the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge, said wealthy people’s philanthropic efforts had a “bad reputation” because the industry was “poorly understood, poorly executed and poorly regulated”.

“There is often, unfortunately, too much focus on the passion behind philanthropy and the feelgood factor and not the actual need,” said Woodcraft, who works as an adviser to the super-rich. “Philanthropists are all too keen to jump in when they surmise that there might be a need, without actually having the data.” Clare Woodcraft, second from the right, is a fellow at the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge. Clare Woodcraft, second from the right, is a fellow at the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge. Photograph: Aidan Synnott

She said many rich people wanted to set up their own educational or health foundations without checking whether there was a need or an existing charity or government-funded programme working to address the issue.

“I still see way too often family offices that come to me and say: ‘We want to do education, we want to set up a foundation and we want to do it in market X’,” she said.

Woodcraft said in these cases she would ask the family for their rationale, only for them to reply: “It doesn’t matter. Let’s just get some quick wins, let’s get the money out there.

“That is the challenge. We need to step back, and have a clear methodology for investing philanthropic capital, because that’s how you’re going to maximise impact and hence mitigate some of the risks of reputational damage.”

Clare Woodcraft seems to think that philanthropy is the solution to inequality, but individuals helping in ways that they want is just giving them more power to decide the fates of the vast majority of people. Systemic change is needed to take power away from the bourgeoisie and give it to the masses to decide their own economic futures.

Fantastic channel. For those interested: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections

Yep that was my bad -- still learning the ropes. Lesson learned, and I appreciate the feedback.

t 14 and 15 year olds working, is it? I’m assuming there’s more, like going over their maximum hours?

Yeah. Long hours, dangerous work, and connections are made to the greater economic crisis and fall of the American middle class with a call to action for a general strike.

Based af. Build statues of Lenin around your miniature district courtyards next to the state run kindergartens and schools where you choose only teachers loyal to the party. It ain't easy being red, though. Keep your citizens happy, or they will escape to another republic.

Edit: spelling

Welcome to the revolution.

Agreed. It's a breath of fresh air from the Reddit mileu, which has seemed to have grown so stale, predictable, and hostile over the years.

White supremacists are the deadliest US terror threat, and racism pervades nearly every arm of the law enforcement system. Disarm, defund, and then abolish this monstrosity.

Providing counter-narratives based in truth of chauvinists or toxic figures in general can provide a path for those, especially younger viewers, to find a way out of the pipeline. It's the whole idea of hijacking the algorithm that has been and is used to deconvert impressionable young men from alt-right, red pill, or manosphere online communities.

I'm curious about why this post received three downvotes basically right after I posted. Any ideas? Or downvoters, maybe you would be willing to say why?

What has the hate symbol as an avatar?