Yes... yes that is exactly what is going to happen. Because capitalism continues to find ways to diverge from reality, in ever more obscene ways. But the reckoning always arrives eventually.

Capitalism is no longer a system grounded by competition to lower prices. Instead every company raises prices to the max that they can squeeze out of people. So if they think moms will pay more for a girl’s clothes than a boy’s clothes you get this pink tax: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

From the mildlyinfuriating community on Reddit: Pink tax in the kids aisle.

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In case you haven't seen yet, the insurance actuaries are now starting to factor the odds that within this century up to 4 billion people worldwide will die from the effects of climate change

This could be us, but this govt isn't serious #NZPol

Justin Mikulka@justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last week I wrote a piece where I said that batteries were a gas power assassin. @robshum.bsky.social pointed out that the correct word to describe batteries is "gassassin." Either way, there is a killing going on down under.

It's hard to describe exactly how different Auckland feels compared to the US cities I grew up in, but I think I've got it now. This city is moving up Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Being able to focus on "identity", "belonging", and "confidence" is a luxury many lack newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/a...

Auckland: Time to plant a whole field of tall poppies

In the second of a two part essay, Auckland's former design champion lauds two decades of transformation of the city – and says it serves as an 'instructive laboratory for contemporary city-making' wo...

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We don't stop tens of thousands of years of being hunter-gatherers just because society changed. We just find new things to hunt, and new things to gather. Capitalism has hijacked those deep evolutionary instincts and turned some of us into money hoarders and shopping addicts.

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” — William Gibson, Count Zero

Well…. that doesn’t quite look like free market capitalism to me! 🤔

I’ll happily help primary every single establishment Democrat that I am eligible to vote for. It’s past time for a full replacement, from the bottom all the way to the top. (Next up watch the Democrats join Republicans in trying to attack mail in ballot voting by expats 🙄)

In the case of the small solar farm I’m about to put in on my homestead, the biggest blocker is now apparently the support structures for the solar panels… that’s the part that costs the most and where there are major delays on availability. What a world we live in 😆

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

Talarico makes me proud to have grown up Texan, at the same time a little sad that he is describing a category of Texas man that has declined dramatically of late. I remember growing up my Dad taught me the same things Talarico described: he was always helping out folks from church or neighborhood

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Ah NZ.

I was first shocked by police behavior back in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street, because I was still young and naive. Unfortunately it took me until Black Lives Matter in 2020 to realize it’s not just one city or department. It’s all cops, everywhere. I hope others learn faster than I did

Big DeVito Energy 🎂Aug. 11🎂@mayawest.online · 2mo ago

every 3rd post I see tn is a video of what feels like 2020 and that includes the shocked "why are the POLICE doing this?" replies. Not to be rude, but did people sleep through 2020? every city, everywhere, from the big cities like New York and Atlanta to pop. 10,000 hamlets. why the surprise?

Only a sadistic American brained capitalist would look at real estate prices going down and ask "what went wrong?" Too many modern capitalists want their money to grow without them doing anything to deserve that money growth. Sorry your poorly maintained property isn't passively growing in value.

The world is watching New Zealand’s housing crash — and asking what went wrong

Global business news outlet Bloomberg says Aotearoa is a “tiny, but extreme” example of what happens when a housing boom goes into reverse.

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Thinking about this video: The implication is that these “hopeful” mechanisms are just cope and distraction, most likely from revolutionary change. But these are the mechanisms that pick up the people after capitalism drops them. Additionally, strong communities are the basis of strong revolutions

Worst predator vs alien reboot ever:

Passed by only a single vote huh? Absolutely embarrassing state of affairs in the US right now. www.wkrg.com/news/bill-ba...

Bill banning whites-only housing passes Pennsylvania House by 1 vote | WKRG.com

No Republican lawmakers supported the measure.

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Sounds like people panic buying the essentials before the price goes up even further. It goes without saying the next stop is a severely depressed economy. This guy is so clueless, that it would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sickening to see him grinning about credit card spending

In the 2000's, The Bravery recorded The Sun and The Moon, and released what I believe to be one of the strangest and most emotionally fascinating albums I've heard. Every song was recorded twice. The Sun version is bright, rousing, and outgoing. The Moon version is haunted, nocturnal, lonely.

On the "blue button" vs "red button" discourse many people are moralizing about pressing the blue button. Sorry to break it to you, but if you live a typical normie life, you are already pressing the red button every single day, and not even to save our own life, but for the sake of convenience.

Reading some threads about decrease in quality of fresh veggies and fruits at supermarkets in the US. The scary thing no one is mentioning yet: if supermarkets are selling low quality food ingredients, what do you think they are using as ingredients at factories for highly processed food products?

“Crises are the moments that build trust, or erode it, and we face a future of rolling shocks. Governments need to act to reduce vulnerability to known risks, and invest in the expertise to tackle hard-to-predict events.” One of many hard to swallow but critical truths in this report.

Matthew Bowes@mbowes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Among many discussions we have with policy leaders at the Grattan Institute, one issue continually comes to the fore: Australia's democracy. But is our democracy really under pressure? If so, how should we respond? This is the topic of our latest Grattan Institute report.

Worst so far… this isn’t just about one ignorant and evil man. The fact there was ever a dispute is the problem. He’s backed both by active supporters, as well as passive supporters among the set of people who are willing to sit back and be comfortable under the whims of a corrupt and evil system

GunnyJKJ@gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There is now no dispute, that this President is the worst President in the history of America.

You are so close to the truth dear Redditor. Now let’s think more: Firework shows are specifically designed to sound like war. It’s not an accident. It’s purposeful prep and desensitization. If they are switching to drone shows now it’s because they expect the sound of war to change soon.

No Kings. No Jesters. No Child Molesters. #WeSayNoKings

Calling it now: impending nitrogen shortages are going to lead farmers to rely on use of biosolids from sewage as fertilizer. The thinking will be “better to do this than for people to starve”. Next stop is a mass public health disaster from PFAS and microplastic contamination.

Currently reading one of Jane Jacobs' lesser known books, written decades after Death and Life. Her loathing for cars (and Robert Moses) did not diminish with age. "Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities."

www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/03/16/w...

What Should We Do? - Greater Auckland

Or rather: What We Should Do… …about the maybe imminent – but always possible – imported liquid fuels crisis. And by “we”, I mean the New Zealand Government, whose job this is. First, and above all: w...

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Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.