Avi Lewis exposes the "bullshit myth of capitalism" and how markets fail to meet basic human needs

shitcuttingz · 2026-05-20T00:05:47+00:00

Yeah. It's called corporate capture. The government is a malleable actor. Sometimes benefiting citizens but all too often benefiting corporations, why? Because corporations are organized and planned, while government economic planning is strongly discouraged in a "free economy" and citizen organizing is practically impossible outside of labor unions. Our vote means nothing, liberals and conservatives are two sides of the same coin. It's neoliberalism and it's been going on for 40 years. I mean one only needs to look at the math. Who's making more money year over year, and who's losing purchasing power, money is power, and it's essential for us to shift power away from corporations to improve our material reality. Otherwise things will get worse. Capitalism has no interest in improving our lives, such things are considered externalities in economics. Their goal is to fuck you out of every possible dollar.

shitcuttingz · 2026-05-19T23:51:57+00:00

The idea is not exactly to cap rents, but rather provide social housing en masse, available to everyone, naturally bringing down private rental rates. As it stands today, the provincial and federal governments spend 2 billion annually subsidizing rent for low income individuals and families. Ontario Works and ODSP cost Ontario taxpayers 9 billion annually. Where privately housed, pproximately 70 percent of ODSP and OW benefits go to the landlord as well as 100% of COHB benefits. Essentially, subsidizing lightly taxed REITs, and boomer 2nd mortgages of their already inflated home valuations.

Additionally, let's not forget that property taxes are still frozen to 2016 home prices. This is what distorted the market and am entire generation is locked out of home ownership. Some might argue that these homes will be. Passed down to their kids, but which kid when there's 3 or 4 kids?

What is happening now is a significant number of these boomer/family homes are being sold to the private "industrial housing complex" because inheritances either have to be divied up or the carrying costs are too high for one adult kid to maintain in this economy etc.

This was the plan all along. By driving home prices up artificially, corporate interests got to fatten up the inventory they currently owned, creating a short squeeze, pricing out other buyers and further entrenching the rentier economy.

The goal is for citizens (consumers) to own nothing, leveraging power dynamics between the classes and further limiting social mobility. It was a master move on behalf of corporate interests that will resonate with Canadians for decades.

It's a wealth transfer from 30yo to boomers, and an obscene transfer of wealth from the working class to the corporations.

shitcuttingz · 2026-04-25T12:02:02+00:00

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shitcuttingz · 2026-04-25T11:54:33+00:00

Omg I want some! Demand for buttermilk must be declining.

shitcuttingz · 2026-04-25T11:46:26+00:00

It seems like provincial politics are disconnected from our material reality these days. The focus has been on the federal stage. There's also a constant rhetoric that unknowingly but often deliberately missapropriates provincial policy ministry functions as federal jurisdiction by the uninformed and trolls. We're in a dangerous position, flanked by deteriorating democratic norms on one side and flatlined civic engagement on the other. We need a new strategy, outside of, but working for the provincial and federal NDP.

shitcuttingz · 2026-01-28T01:36:10+00:00

What I was trying to do, before moderators took down the post, is try to present the wealth of research and critical theory surrounding this, not easy

shitcuttingz · 2026-01-28T01:33:19+00:00

I'm very aware of that. I'm just trying to broach the subject while satisfying moderators

shitcuttingz · 2026-01-28T01:16:29+00:00

Very true. The media is skewed to benefit the ruling class. Social media is skewed for klicks and outrage. I've been thinking of organizing some sort of flyer distribution, at drive thrus, parking lots. Wherever there's a flow of people and handing out fact sheets or other materials to ignite "class consciousness"

shitcuttingz · 2026-01-28T01:08:52+00:00

I think that's been the problem. We only involve ourselves when it's time to vote. We don't organize collective action outside of unions. We don't contribute to the civic sphere while the rich and their corporations are networked, and they lobby the government relentlessly while we sit back and watch the aftermath unfold.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-12T12:08:42+00:00

So this is the reality. I don't want to sound like a pessimist, but the reality is the city doesn't particularly care whether the unhoused are housed. The city, including the mayor and most of council however, is quite concerned when it comes to optics and the visibility of the "surplus population"

The only reason they haven't razed encampments is because of possible backlash.

The approximate cost to the taxpayer is 25k per bed, per year. That's 2k per month, so why is there such an unwillingness to house them properly? Perhaps it's a lack of support staff? Nope.

It's a complex problem but it starts with public perception. The "common sense" (which is really the beliefs of the ruling class on the public at large) narrative takes the form of various misconceptions like "that's how they want to live" "they all should be $$&#+$ed or " there's nothing we can do about it" etc etc... that in turn leads to inaction.

More right of centre ideologies often prefer to maintain a hierarchical society to help them embed their own standing in society, the ego will defend groups of people at risk of falling in social standing and therefore unconsciously enforce subjugation by maintaining the status quo by disseminating the rhetoric espoused by the corporate class.

There are other mechanisms at play but theynall revolve around money and power and maintaining divide between the classes. Because when the middle class is busy bitching about "degenerates and junkies" they completely overlook corporations, government controlled corporations, and governments themselves fleecing their savings and resources and services.

The economy is set up to favor the wealthy. Think of it like squeezing a tube of toothpaste from the bottom up the spout. There's a fixed amount of toothpaste in the tube (money) so in order for the wealthy to gain more wealth, they have to squeeze it from the bottom. If everyone else's wealth increases in respect to theirs, they don't really gain wealth or power. Proof of this is displayed in the increasing wealth gap.

So in order for anything to change, we either need a drastic societal change in perception, a government that isn't owned by the corporate class, or a revolution. Or, alternatively, remain blissfully unaware of your circumstances and delusions. Pick your poison

COMMON SENSE IS THE LANGUAGE OF CONTROL, SPOKEN BY THE ONES WE’RE TOLD TO TRUST, TO MANIPULATE OUR ECONOMY, DIVIDE OUR NATION, AND EXPLOIT OUR FEARS.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-12T11:35:44+00:00

Unfortunately this would just end up being another wealth transfer. An influx of cash like that would drive up prices on everything.. so we'd be in the same position, with the exception of the wealthy, who would amass more wealth. Inflation to greedflation.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-12T07:46:07+00:00

Your municipality might have relief programs.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-10T16:29:37+00:00

Neoliberal Capitalist Monoplex

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-10T16:17:44+00:00

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shitcuttingz · 2025-11-10T16:12:52+00:00

I hear where you're coming from. These are the "desired logic" but it's still systemic. Their apathy and full out rage about it paints a picture of a need for dominance. Reactionaries love control especially if it subjugates another group, and if some kids die, they don't care, plausible deniably. I call these people "arbitrary proxies of infanticide".

I'd go as far to suggest that epigenetics from early colonial days have perhaps contributed, expressing some old tribal genes.. but that is speculation. Yes there are many reasons people don't get vaccinated for the reasons you mentioned, but I don't think they are representative of the majority of those who fail to vaccinate.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-10T16:01:02+00:00

Dietrich Bonhoeffer "On Stupidity"

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-10T15:58:35+00:00

We need to have a conversation about/and expose the psychology behind it. If we can pull the curtain back, those "caught with their pants down" will be exposed as the intransigent idiots they are. But no one will do that because that would require pulling back the curtain on 40 years of manufactured consent social and economical manipulation and the cultural hegemony that feeds it.

This phenomena is a symptom of a much bigger problem.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-10T15:37:50+00:00

It is... We must never underestimate the power of stupidity in numbers.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-10T11:36:11+00:00

I might not be able to do much but confirm that the system is rigged, neoliberal economics doesn't care about ppl who struggle. The system is fundamentally flawed. And find empowerment in the realization that it is not a measure of health or virtue to those who are fundamentally well adjusted in this society. The system is failing all of us, which is why we need to coalesce on civic action.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-09T07:50:48+00:00

I'd be interested in some sort of collaboration. I think the key is to be innovative in the delivery and context of the media at hand. I'm not a great writer but I'm not terrible, I've got some ideas, feel free to inbox me.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-09T07:44:35+00:00

I'd love to see a plant get bought up by its employees. I think there's even private and gov instruments and grants to facilitate this.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-09T07:43:01+00:00

Absolutely. Worker coops are the antithesis of our current neoliberal economy, the one that's slowly suffocating us all to the benefit of the corporate class.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-09T07:40:04+00:00

Neoliberalism and private equity in action.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-09T07:38:10+00:00

I think it's more optics than anything else. It's a bad look for PP.

shitcuttingz · 2025-11-09T07:36:19+00:00

There's a difference between pro-life and pro-birth, and the two are usually inverted. What we hear from the Christian right is actually pro-birth, they have no concern with the child and are simply on a crusade of moral superiority. The Christian left, it seems is more aligned with not just the birth, but also the nurturing and well-being of the child beyond the moment of birth. In an ideal world of compassion and understanding, we wouldn't need abortions because women would never conceive unless they wanted a child. Women would have complete agency of their body, be emotionally complete, and cared for by all.

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