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#capitalism #enshittification

During the public debate surrounding the slaying of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, many Very Serious People TM insisted that it was hyperbolic to say United Health and medical insurance companies like it, were themselves in the business of murdering Americans for profit. While obviously their denials were disingenuous on a structural level in a society where providing (or not providing) access to life-saving medical care is one of the most profitable industries in the US economy, but as it turns out they were flat out wrong in a literal sense too. How do we know? Because recent investigations into UnitedHealth management practices show the company was straight up bribing nursing homes to deny their customers hospital care and pressure elderly residents to sign "do not resuscitate" orders; even if they wanted to use the coverage they paid for to you know, not die.

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Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

"The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive."

So, there's a term for a situation when you just let someone in a medical emergency die because its more profitable for your company, and that term is "homicidal negligence." Which itself, is a fancy way of describing what any normal person would call murder. If you or I were caught doing this kinda shit at our (hypothetical, I assure you) Airbnb rental property, we'd be going to jail for a long fucking time. Because UnitedHealth is a giant corporation, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and has enough lobbyists to ensure no US Senator ever dines alone again however, it's just "efficient business operations" in the eyes of many free market fundamentalists and investor class sociopaths. Folks, they literally gamified a plot to enlist nursing homes to murder our grandparents for money; this isn't a wayward comment on an earnings call, these unhinged mutherfuckers had bonus tiers for nursing homes that kept hospital visits low at any cost. In a just world, folks should absolutely go to fucking prison for this homicidal bullshit, but we do not live in a just world and since our entire society is built to service capitalist extraction and the rich people who do it, I'm not gonna hold my breath while I wait for justice.

What I will say however is bougie maggot bootlickers can kiss my puckered asshole, because you can't stop reality from being real, or folks getting killed for profit by corporations, from calling that what it is: murder. The fact is that no company in the history of capitalist society ever created any wealth; they merely extract it from our shared environment and labor class folks like you and I. If a company like UnitedHealth figures out that letting your grandma die is good for their share prices, that's exactly what they're going to do; don't let disingenuous muppets who benefit from this system tell you it's too complicated for you to understand, and this practice isn't precisely what you think it is. These folks have made killing us for money at various speeds, a profitable industry; the least they could do is stop pissing in our faces when we point out that CEOs and investors have more bodies on themselves than you'll find in a pauper's cemetery.

#Capitalism #Murder #UnitedHealth #HomicidalNegligence #ClassWar #ProfitMotive #Corporations #Oligarchy #NursingHomes #Flak #Seniors #USNews #Propaganda #ForProfitHealthcare


Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
George Joseph (The Guardian)
#propaganda #capitalism #corporations #classwar #murder #oligarchy #usnews #unitedhealth #homicidalnegligence #profitmotive #nursinghomes #flak #seniors #forprofithealthcare

#capitalism #ecoactivism #TechnoSolutionism

#capitalism

#HumanRights #capitalism #humanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint @Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

#capitalism

Global warming has accelerated. Earth’s climate is heating up faster today than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

That’s not doomism. It is reality.

If we do not end capitalism, capitalism will end us.

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism

Line graph shows the two-year running mean global surface temperature anomaly from 1942 through 2025 as compared to the 1850 to 1900 pre-industrial baseline. It bounces up and down a bit but is mostly steady from the 1940s until about 1980, when the upward trend begins. The temperature anomaly increases significantly for the next 30+ years, until going up even more sharply within just the last decade.
#climatechange #science #environment #capitalism #climate

#capitalism #abolishice #endstage

#google #AI #USA #capitalism #bigtech #siliconvalley #fascism

#climatechange #environment #capitalism #climate

#politics #capitalism #socialtheory

#apple #Trump #capitalism #neoliberalism #fascism #timcook

Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?

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#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI


NextM Warsaw - Aral Balkan "Small Technology: the antidote to Big Tech"

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#AI #BigData #capitalism #surveillance #bigtech #peoplefarming #siliconvalley #venturecapital #fascism

We know — and our rulers certainly know — that if we are to have any hope of preserving even a limited version of today’s complex modern society, greenhouse gas emissions MUST go down, swiftly and urgently.

But instead, emissions continue going up and up and up. It is literally suicidal.

So, WHY haven't we stopped burning fossil fuels?

Because there are profits to be made. Huge, massive, irresistibly tempting profits.

In a sane world, these actions would be seen as criminal.

Perpetrators like fossil fuel executives, their financiers, and the politicians who enable them, would be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted, with assets forfeited to pay for mitigation and reparations.

But we do not live in a sane world.

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Degrowth

Three US $100 bills in a pool of blood.
#politics #climatechange #environment #ClimateJustice #capitalism #climate #degrowth #businessasusual #economics

According to news media: today, a billionaire is being taken into space, where the crew will open the rocket door and put him outside.

This seems like a great start, and I hope that the remaining 1,780+ billionaires left here on earth will be following suit soon.

#note #space #capitalism

Via: 🔗 danq.me/2024/09/10/private-spa…

The Polaris Dawn crew (billionaire Jared Isaacman, accompanied by a retired US Air Force pilot and two SpaceX employees) preparing to launch.
#capitalism #space #note

What they didn't tell you when you joined the federal public service:

Your job is really to shore up the failed business models of downtown companies and their landlords ... and to keep generating more greenhouse gasses in the process.

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#CdnPoli #capitalism

#capitalism #cdnpoli

#capitalism

Literally the *only* story I'm going to share about the goddamn Olympics:

U.S. Rugby player Ariana Ramsey found out athletes get free healthcare in the Olympic Village and immediately booked a bunch of appointments for routine services many Americans living under our dystopian private healthcare regime simply can't afford:

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"Like, what?” she said in a post on TikTok describing her new discovery: The Olympic Village offers free healthcare.

The United States, of course, does not. So in the days following her victory, Ramsey made appointments with the Village gynecologist, dentist and ophthalmologist. According to the Paris 2024 organizing committee, the Village also offers cardiology, orthopedics, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry and, of course, sports medicine—all at no cost to the athletes. (Paralympic athletes will also have access to dermatology.)"

The best part of the story is that Ramsey not only convinced a bunch of other U.S. Athletes to take advantage of the program, but after realizing how beneficial having access to free healthcare is, she's decided to become an advocate for Universal Healthcare in America.

On a personal level and as someone who has spent time in multiple countries that offer free healthcare to their citizens, I honestly cannot stress how much it improves not only health outcomes, but also quality of life for labor class people; from increasing your lifespan, to freeing workers from dependence on bad employers just to keep their health insurance, this is one social policy that has ripples throughout almost every aspect of the lives of everyday people. And it says a LOT about the priorities of the American ruling class that they'd do almost anything to keep you from having access to universal healthcare.

#UniversalHealthcare #USPol #Capitalism #Olympics


U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village

Women’s rugby player Ariana Ramsey’s videos showcasing her appointments have gone viral, and now many others are making good use of the medical services offered in Paris. 
Stephanie Apstein (Sports Illustrated)
#uspol #capitalism #olympics #universalhealthcare

#capitalism #communism

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#privacy #capitalism #surveillance #nym

Things that are not the problem:

"Inflation"
Unions
Minimum wage
Immigrants
Public spending
Social Services
Welfare
Homeless people
Gay people
Carbon Tax
Bike lanes
Mass transit
Trans healthcare
Women's healthcare
Genderqueer people
Indigenous land rights
Urban greenscaping
Public education
Public healthcare
Public libraries
Vaccines

#capitalism #NoBillionaires

Tesla's board is asking shareholders to approve $56 billion in compensation for Elon Musk. That's enough to give the 15,000 workers who just got laid off $3.7 million. Each.
#capitalism #nobillionaires

The absolute gall of this question. A required question, mind you.

I will likely not be getting called in for an interview, but it was totally worth it.

#jobsearch #jobhunt #capitalism

A text field for a job application. The question says "Please provide your wage history for the past five years, detailing company, position, and salary amount." The user wrote in response to this "Please provide the current wages for your last five employees in this role"
#capitalism #jobsearch #jobhunt

#labor #capitalism #markets #scarcity #unions #economics #workers #capitalists #shortage #workersshortage

For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg…
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I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most importantly it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.

It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.

This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about *ideas* which will never age.
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bookwyrm.social/user/BreadAndC…

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

Greta Thunberg, holding a copy of The Climate Book, showing the front cover.
#Climatecrisis #climatechange #environment #ClimateJustice #capitalism #climateemergency #climate #climateaction #businessasusual #co2 #emissions

We can have one of two things — but not both.

We can either have a society that tolerates millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere. Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and no billionaires at all.

This is from a recently published peer-reviewed scientific paper titled “Millionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitions”...
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Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionately to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

Our findings suggest that the share of millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget. This significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5°C.

The concentration of wealth at the top means that a significant share of the remaining carbon budget to 1.5°C is depleted by a very small share of humanity. This comparably small group is also likely to invest its wealth in ways that further increase emissions.

Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient.
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Like I said, we can have one thing or the other — but not both.

READ THE PAPER --sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

#Politics #Capitalism #Inequality #CO2 #Emissions #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

#politics #Climatecrisis #climatechange #environment #ClimateJustice #capitalism #climate #climateaction #inequality #co2 #emissions

Capitalism has not really raised people from extreme poverty. Most probably it has just pushed more and more people into extreme poverty over hundreds of years, in addition to making life miserable in general for so many.

The only time things have gotten better for regular people within capitalism is when workers organize and when people participate in anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist action.

New study on the topic: sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Poverty

#anticapitalism #capitalism #poverty #socialism

Also, now that I’m back at my computer, here’s a non-YouTube link to Greta Thunberg’s “The Climate Event” talk on an Invidious instance:

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#climateChange #extinction #capitalism #gretaThunberg

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event Presented by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin Available on demand for 30 days Subscribe for the latest videos from Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room + more: h…
Southbank Centre | Invidious
#climatechange #capitalism #gretathunberg #extinction

#climatechange #capitalism #gretathunberg #extinction

#capitalism

#email #privacy #microsoft #gdpr #capitalism #surveillance #bing

I spoke with a company who preach diversity and inclusivity.

When discussing the possibility of working together, they asked me what salary I would accept. I asked about progression frameworks and budget, and provided examples of market rates. The recruiter wouldn’t budge and forced me to pick a number.

Don’t be that company. Be honest, be fair, and put your money where your mouth is.

showthepay.com/

#Diversity #GenderPayGap #Capitalism


Show The Pay

Put salary bands on your job adverts
Show The Pay
#capitalism #diversity #genderpaygap

#capitalism #elonmusk #billionaire #douchebag

HP to release laptop running Pop!_OS. Could System76 be an acquisition target?

(Here’s hoping this doesn’t go down the webOS route.)

betanews.com/2022/05/20/hp-pop…

Via @tuxmachines

#system76 #hp #bigTech #linux #capitalism


HP chooses Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux for its upcoming Dev One laptop -- could System76 be an acquisition target?

Rumors have been swirling lately that HP was planning to release a laptop running the Pop!_OS operating system. Today, System76’s CEO Carl Richell shared on Twitter that this is absolutely ha…
BetaNews
#linux #capitalism #bigtech #hp #system76

#capitalism

Handing control of our biometric identities to a handful of trillion-dollar American gatekeeper corporations isn’t the good news you might think it is.

(Don’t forget, the W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.)

In a non-corporate world, your “password” could be so much more… It could be, for example, a mnemonic for the key to a facet of your self that you (and you alone) own and control.

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#w3c #fido #passwords #identity #access #surveillance #capitalism


Apple, Microsoft, and Google are teaming up to eliminate passwords

Good news for the people still using "Password123!"
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#identity #capitalism #surveillance #w3c #passwords #access #fido

#privacy #infosec #security #labor #introduction #VPN #banjo #journalism #nyc #capitalism #fountainpens #medieval #union

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