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• @qyron@sopuli.xyz 2026-11-01 16:04

  My next few words are going to be highly unpopular but what do I have to lose? Social media is a cancer. Let’s put it as it is. Many laud it as an open chanel to divulge what the traditional media outlets do not but at its core all social media proved is that human beings are easily swayed and are uncapable or, even worst, unwilling to interact in a civil manner. There is no exception to my knowledge to this behaviour in social media. Even in Lemmy it happens. Instead of banning kids from social media, perhaps we should consider social media as a whole and go back a few pegs on how we used the internet. Regarding kids, there are already plenty of example cases where forcing the reduction of the use of social media improved the overall mental well being of children and adolescents. Even adults benefit from it. Perhaps banning it outright would not bad that bad.

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• @yesman@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 16:17

  There is an idea in Capitalism called “surplus labor”. It’s not controversial, economists from Marx to Freedman acknowledge it. What it means is that a capitalist labor market must have a pool of “unused” labor. Capitalism isn’t able, and it wouldn’t be desirable to simply employ everyone who wants to work. The same way capitalism needs some businesses to fail, it also needs some people to be poor. Zoomers are not the “first” to be surplussed, the new part is it’s happening to people who imagine themselves to be in the middle class.

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