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It's sadly true that in todays world you can't escape the clutches of capitalism's plutocratic overlords, unless you go and live permanently offline in the wilderness that is. Mostly everything you use has a price in blood and upholds the position of terrible actors or works to make the world deliberately worse and even if you think you have a choice you actually don't, just like Brennan said, the road was paved long before you arrived. Use the internet means use cisco (hello there military contractors), use a phone and give in to apple or google, no third usable choice, even for graphene you have to get a pixel. Buy a pc and the graphite used to build the chips was sourced using child labour in africa. Even if you don't use AI most of your information/work is eventually going to get used as training data. If you want to buy food you must purchase it in a plastic package, the car you need to go to work needs fuel, you use an electric car? It's powered by coal power plants, stopped eating meat? Great most vegetables are grown from Monsanto's seeds. Want any animal sourced product? Be careful to not pick the animal cruelty brands. Did you know the meat industry is one of the largest culprits of global warming? Are the elections in your country democratic? Or are the two popular sides part of the same scheme but with different colours? Are you voting moloch or baal this summer election? Do you enjoy videogames? Are you ready for avoiding most of the popular games with shitty practices, excessive monetization and lazy storytelling? Have you watched the latest DCU/MCU movie? It has x actor in it, a character returned for the millionth time!! No we won't be original anymore, we will make sure to cancel that show you liked, it will give us a nice tax break. Do you hate AI? Too bad your employer is now including token usage in you end of month report, good luck with the ever increasing expectations and responsibility matched by a never increasing salary. Did you know the blue side of politics supports x figure? Why won't they condem y? The red party supports workers and freedom, especially Israel's, no we won't pass legislation to guarantee paid maternity leave it would cost too much money, lets donate billions to Argentina and tel aviv!. Hey public research is getting too expensive, why don't we privatize vaccines so only the poor die from fully preventable diseases, if you don't want to work for less than minium wage you don't deserve housing, food or medication. Are you a slightly darker skin tone than white you are fucked, you don't like women? Great time to become a politican. You like men? You are fucked. You like other things? No you don't, you like the mainstream, the algorithm says so, if you'd like a niche you'd be bad for advertisers. You have a tv then you have a microphone in your house, is your car new? Then it has a screen and a computer forwarding aaalll your personal information, driving behavior, geo location, routine, etc to the manufacturer for later processing, your radio has ads, watch and ad to use the heating, the ads are peraonalized according to that phone call you had with your mother last week, we took the recording and fed it to the algorithm to search for keywords. Use socials to chat with long distance friends, the you support musk, elon, or the next fuck with too much money and influence, your profile will be used for later election fraud, the fine for crimes is just the price for billionares, when you have enough money crime stops being illegal and just comes with a small fee. You can go pdf in an island and even though everyone will care no actions will be done, you can steal culture, destroy books, ruin the climate as long as you pay a few hundred thousand in carbon emission fees, as long as you donate you are free to do anything, even become the president, or purchase a president.

In todays day and age I feel like any decision I take is influenced to help these fuckers in power win, and I want to believe that even though I am just a small person I can be of help, I hope to leave the space I occupy in the world better than I found it, to take care of the thing I have in reach and hope that others do the same, not one person can fix the world, only through collective action do we make life better for everybody. Even if every choice in life seems shittier than the next one.