You’re missing a major incentive. Over the course of several decades, laws prohibiting discriminatory behavior internally and externally were passed. At the same time, unions became less militant and less democratic. So workers try to turn to the new laws to stand up for themselves. Especially middle- and upper- sections because they have the independent resources and systemic support.

The various waves of HR interventions are defenses against the above. Polices, trainings, disciplines, hiring practices, codes of conduct etc. Which are implemented in ways that are unserious, under-resourced, lots of loopsholes, designed to breed resentment, etc. But enough that if there is a problem, the boss can say “we did everything we could”. So any legal consequences will be eliminated or reduced.

Rainbow capitalism is a slightly different situation but in context of the above. After the western AIDS crisis settled down, LGBTQ+ leadership was entirely seized by wealthy people who were the least dead and least traumatized of everyone. They took advantage of work done by others to benefit their own individual positions.

It’s all in the context of capitalism being inherently about exploitation. There is no such thing as a woke corporation. it can’t happen.

I remember talking about this with friends 10+ years ago. Haven’t noticed it or heard anyone else mention it since, but I don’t know why.

It runs on a lot more devices like TV boxes idk if that is counted

When Oxford was about to liberate its covid vaccine recipe to enable local production in the global south, bill gates swooped in to talk them down. One of his arguments that ultimately won the day is that global south people are too stupid and irresponsible to be in charge of important medicine like that.

This photo is staged to reinforced that kind of stereotype.

I commend your web search skills!

With that info we can post a better photo taken within moments of the above:

Which shows medications being stored in a normal way in boxes which are neatly stacked and organized on shelves.

The med salad colander thing still completely inexplicable. It doesn’t play any role in the workflow according to the photos I saw. It is a chaotic and dangerous way of storing medication. I hypothesize it is staged for the benefit of the photographer, likely with some art direction from her.

I know it’s just a third party photo on a summary article but the photographer “Barbara Debout/AFP/Getty Images” is seriously fucked in the head. The idea that anyone would ever break up a bunch of blister packs of random medications and put them in a colander like some sort of chronic disease salad is insane. For context, we see the dark skin and bold printed clothing. Is there any explanation for this which isn’t wildly racist?

There’s a perfectly non-racist image included in the actual paper:

Draw a tax zone specifically around all properties associated with Donald Trump and tax it at 1000% the current rate.

it sounds like you are responding to a different comment than the ones I am reading. everyone here is broadly agreeing with each other.

You can seed Anna’s Archive, the largest public collection of texts:

https://annas-archive.org/torrents

Can also do the same for scihub or archive.org but I think only on an individual basis.

I am not you in any respect. Just recycling advice I’ve seen in many similar threads. Which is that you might do better with a personal touch because you wont get through the resume robots. If you can get yourself in socially with people who are in a position to help you out. So you need to figure out who those people are, specifically (like by looking on linkedin). And how to get into the mix with them. Which could be by going to the right bars, contributing to the right projects, joining the right improv club etc.

and maybe check programming.dev

If no one will hire me I thought of trying to wing it myself and put fliers up offering tech support.

I’ve actually noticed in the past year or so, it seems the world is going back to fliers. Just walking around I am seeing posters for stuff like it’s 2011. There are people putting up fliers for tech support, among other stuff. If they are successful, I have no clue. I think it has to do with the enshittification of social media. Honestly it might be worth trying especially if you set a time/money budget. Like spend $30 and 10 hours; see what happens. But maybe facebook ads? In addition.

You must’ve noticed the same thing in OP that I did:

my sister, girlfriend and some friends irl

Assuming there are both women and men around you that you could be annoying, its worth thinking about why these little assertions of dominance only target a certain group.

You could experiment with intentionally annoying men… And dont just pick men who are somehow subordinate to you.

I think it has t do with neuroplasticity.

that’s the pettiest shit I have read in 2025