#hypercapitalism

I Don’t Belong Here

Everything about him that you don't like is something he chose deliberately, because he thinks it either gives him an advantage, or looks cool. Especially his aesthetic, which is entirely of his own making. He doesn't know about the Unfortunate Implications, and if you told him, he wouldn't comprehend.

Martin's rancid take on ethics is the best he can do. While he was growing up, his hyper-Objectivist family carefully kept him in the dark about all forms of morality and ethics, believing such "outdated" ideas would just hold him back. He genuinely doesn't know the difference between religious and cultural ideas of morality, and the concepts of instant and delayed karma. Nor that ethics can exist independently of religion... His rancid take on charities mostly comes from his family and their allies. He's a 27-year-old dinosaur, who grew up in a gated community unchanged by World War 3.

Gillie might vaguely remember him from her time on Mars, as "that weird teen nepo-baby who was always in the Martian news for something stupid," and likely be shocked and dismayed that he's still at large and causing harm.

There's a lot of headcanon in here about the Martian Free State, but Jay sort of implies that it's the last remnant of the Martian-American hypercapitalist hegemony that World War 3 brought down. I just ran with that...

Unifor has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against Amazon amid a vote by workers at a Delta, B.C., warehouse over whether they want to join the union. 

In the complaint, Unifor alleges Amazon ramped up hiring while the union was in the midst of a drive to get workers to sign union cards, increasing the workforce by about 30 per cent in a bid to dilute union support.

In B.C., if more than 55 per cent of eligible workers at a facility sign cards, union certification is granted automatically, while if the cards represent at least 45 per cent, a vote may be called instead. This is known as card-check certification, and B.C. and Quebec are among the jurisdictions that have it. 

Amazon says the hiring was part of its regular seasonal recruitment, according to the complaint, but Unifor disputes this, saying the hiring spree represented a "concerted effort" to prevent the union from successfully organizing the warehouse. 

Gavin McGarrigle, Unifor's western regional director, said the scale of Amazon's alleged anti-union efforts in this case is beyond anything he's experienced with other employers. [...]

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Acxiom divides people into 70 categories based on economic parameters alone. The group that has very little in customer worth is called "waste."

"Big Data" enables prediction of human responses and the future, therefore, can be manipulated accordingly. Big Data has the ability to turn people into puppets. Big Data generates knowledge that enables ruling power. And it is Big Data that makes it possible to access and manipulate the human psyche without the affected person being aware of it. Big Data essentially spells the end of free will.

Today's politicians are asked to curtail the practice of collecting personal data of constituents in light of the danger this practice holds. Credit scoring companies have discriminatory power. The mere idea of economically evaluating a person goes against the ideal of human dignity. No one should be degraded to being an object of algorithm-based evaluation.

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: White and orange background with one right hand placing a lit match on the words fetch the bolt-cutters spelt with matches and nails. The poster also contains information for an open call, it says:

❌“not trying to get by, trying to get free” ❌

queers, punks, pansies, anarchist, gutter bois, and lurkers of the underground,

fetch the bolt cutters is an art /exhibition project gathering critical seeds against the big fucken dirty C, capitalism!

we want your grimy, goth ☠️, & gritty; your twee🌈  fantasy of the world you dreamed of,

the acidic and the anarchic, the psychedelic visions, your terror*, the surreal and nightmarish, the grungiest, the too cool for capital;

queer miniature objects, kitsch totems. anything that speaks for everything capitalism is not; all you know your boss will spit on.

* terror🕳:  it is with the cold viciousness capitalism continues to strike we turn to the page, the canvass! these are the small seeds of liberation

fetch the bolt cutters will consider printed matter: zines, stickers, posters, collage, comic strips, illustrations, poems....really all the weird stuff.

please send an image or pdf of your materials to [[email protected]]  // email subject— “fuck capitalism” 🙂

deadline: December 15, 2020.

the project strategically avoids platforms like facebook and instagram, do share with your network but please keep it off piggy 🐷spaces.