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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe it rewards beauty? Nah, I'm not that rich...

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Capitalism rewards ability to provide perceived value measured in $. If people perceive your product/service to be of greater or equal value to them than the $ amount (the work they had to do to earn it) you're asking for it , then they'll pay for it.

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Being rich isn't the greatest reward. And not feasible. Only the few can ever be rich.

Demanding a society where an economic system makes the virtuous rich is mental.

An economic system should be measured by the quality of life and productivity by the society. And it's ability to consume said wealth. I.e. china is failing their citizens, badly. So is Germany in their psychosis of exporting.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But surely being rich (i.e being comfortable and having the freedom to explore new enterprises) is the best reward that society en large can give you; the best and only appropriate award that the government can provide you for your skilled labour. It has also historically been very effective at getting society to innovate and improve.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So you want neurosurgeons to be rich enough so they can stop being neurosurgeons for their deed of becoming neurosurgeons? Sure they should be well off enough. But they typically are just normal people.

Rant: Scientists aren't fundamentally better. They just have learned how to do science. That's not particularly hard or admirable and virtually everyone could do it.

It is being made hard due to societal decisions such as high study costs etc. but that doesn't make them superior.

I don't like that elitism.

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you graded the U.S.'s capitalistic system by its quality of life, we would fail miserably. According to U.S. News, we rank 30th

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