• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    There’s so much worse happening to society, so many more important things the media and “studies” could be pushing.

    Why isn’t this article about the growth in the wage gap between lowest paid and highest at companies between those years.

    Why isn’t it about the fact we’re in a new dark age of war where starvation (Gaza) and chemical weapons (Ukraine) are being used.

    “Wouldn’t it be nice if people read more”

    Yes, but shut the fuck up and turn your media clout to something more important. Fix the quality of life and justice issues.

    The Neo-Liberal force of the media and academia are largely misapplied to both-siding Capitalism and the Capitalist Fascism it’s produced, and I’m sick of it.

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      26 days ago

      We have hundreds of studies on the growth of the wage gap. Adding another one for the people perpetrating it to laugh about as they continue to make it worse won’t change things…

      Also, I’d argue that the limitation of ideas and fostering creativity is trapping people in thought processes that don’t allow for thinking about solutions that get us out of those conditions.