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.
Hanford, Ca.
They were preparing for a parade, but the streets were still empty. A few of these mobile vendors were walking the streets hoping to make a sale. I have the utmost respect for these folks, many of whom are immigrants. They struggle to make ends meet and engage in business or labor as best they can. Their dreams may be large, but the reality is a whole lot grittier.
• 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...
reflections @ Business District
Beware of Social Injustice!
The top 1.5% (58 million adults) own 47.5% of global capital.
No Musk!
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
Karl Marx
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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Oakland bound shitstack IOGOA is close to the destination as it rolls through Rodeo a few minutes before sunset this evening.
Vlorë, Albania 2024
And here is the second chapter of my Albanian series.
Vlorë, a seaside resort ideally located on the Adriatic coast, facing Italy, is home to the country's second port after Durrës.
After the violence of the socialist dictatorship, crushed today by an equally brutal savage capitalism, she dreams of a greatness that she cannot assume.
Welcome to a paradise that sometimes takes on post-apocalyptic looks.
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I haven't been to Zurich for many years, although I have been there many times in former years.. so I took the chance to visit the city again
here you see the buildings of UBS bank and Credit Suisse bank - now they get united after a disastrous greedy risky management of Credit Suisse... dangerous for world economic system
London
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'Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until debt becomes unbearable.
The unpaid debt will lead to the bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the state will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.'
Karl Marx