Capitalism Hurts
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I call this 'capitalism' as this depicts the world we live in today. Many sad people who are having difficult times keeping up with the cost of living today. Many holding multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads. What has become of us. Taken in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Wonderland sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. I went inside the sculpture to get this view. It's a female face.
Hanford, Ca.
And, on the day before Thanksgiving, I tender my suggestion for objects for which we are grateful.
Merry Thanksgiving all.
Definition: a small elite securing and extracting ("raking in") an excessive slice of the economic cake without investing in the common good. In the UK, this has created a high-inequality, high-poverty cycle. This cycle is the responsibility of the British Tory Party and, consequentially, the rake ought to be its visual signature - not the tree. Fuji X-Pro1, 7Artisans lens at F16 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
I am in agreement with most ethical photographers in NOT making the homeless an object for exploitative photography. However, I made an exception in this case for two reasons: one, the justaposition of the homeless man with the Sephora store expressed an important failure of American inequality that seems indifferent to the lives of the very poor and; two, because homelessness in American cities is really reaching a breaking point. We, as photographers, have a contribution to make in this vital discussion.
Capitalism is like cancer. Once it enters a host country's economy, it will spread and devour labor, the environment, and any other impediment to the growth of profit. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. However, the world cannot continue to get richer as the earth becomes poorer. Just as the only inevitability in life is death, the only inevitability about our capitalist way of life, is the death of our planet [and our civilization].
Garikai Chengu
Thank you Philippe for the texture.
Since Phillippe declined my invitation for a glass of wine
and I'm feeling just fine I seat comfortably in my leather chair,
if I want I can spin it, if I don't...
I feel free, and I cannot put a price on that.
Free to pay my debt, my bills, and maybe if you don't have none of that.
God bless you, say amem on your comments and please answer my philosophical questions.
Do you like Capitalism, I personally love it, but I think that the only thing missing is a Cap. on it, let's say ...
Mine is 5 million, and I will never get there unless you force me to open a Go Fund me and you throw lot's of money on it, please, be my guest and don't be fucking cheap.
I get my 5 mil, them I help another one of my comrades to get theirs, and we pay it forward.
How about that?
Socialism ...
If you are on the top of the food chain, you seat whenever you want, if you don't you work and get paid very little.
They'll give you lot's of education, but you can only learn of they want you too.
Freedom, yea, saw lots of news of people swimming towards our shore.
Will they put a wall there?
Let me stop.
Going nowhere....
MTN.
Today, now, thinking about how the world will be very soon.
"... savage capitalism has taught the logic of profit at any cost ..."
Pope Francis, 2013
For 12 years I've been driving this curve on my way to walk by the Rogue River. It was always shaded beneath a sea of tall dark trees.
Now it suddenly looks like this! It's hard to describe how disorienting and visceral this shock is! But maybe I don't have to describe it because most people alive today probably have experience with similar things in one form or another.
Clearcutting is widespread in my area. The sickening sight of it is unavoidable if you live here. Satellite images show checkerboard forests. Logging trucks rumble through town all year long.
You don't have to be a scientist to know how wrong this is, how cruel, how deadly. You can feel it in your body. It's total devastation.
Typically, herbicides are then sprayed to discourage unwanted (unprofitable) plants from growing. Rain will wash some of the chemicals down into streams, like the nearby Rogue River, along with soil and debris. Wildlife is obviously severely disturbed and harmed. Only one type of tree will be planted to make a new tree plantation, not a living diverse forest. The original forest had probably been cut down more than 100 years ago.
Conquerors like to label indigenous people as "savages," but who is the real savage? It's those who disrespect what is sacred. It's those who celebrate death and destruction.
• Flock cameras photograph your license plate and bumper stickers when you are traveling, shopping, visiting friends in your car.
• Facebook gathers information about your beliefs, hopes and fears. This information is sold to whoever will pay for it.. They feed you the news they want you to see.
• Instagram shows you images it wants you to see in order to persuade you to believe what it wants you to believe.
• Google search tracks you wherever you go on the internet and sells that information to whoever is willing to pay for it. You are not Google's customer. If you are a Google user, you are the raw material that Google harvests.
• Your cellphone tracks your location wherever you go, knows how long you were there and tracks your exact location in buildings, on the water, in the air, under the ground.
This information is used to sway you to the benefit of billionaires. This is done without our knowledge or permission and often against the law. It is not inevitable. We can fight back. We must demand our right to privacy. We have a right to sanctuary.
Bucharest / Wallachia / Romania
Album of Romania: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157711998...
Entry for the Bio-Cup 2023 Preliminaries.
Tale as old as time; guy who have lot a water. Based off the "Injustice" cartoon by BAYSAL
Street Photography in Havana, Cuba. I like the juxtaposition of the USA stars & strips shorts against the backdrop of the Cuban flag street art and the image of Che Guevara. What would Che say...
Here is a blog I have written on my website with more Cuban Street Portraits, check it out:
www.geraintrowland.co.uk/blog/2017/12/12/street-portraits...
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"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
Karl Marx
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