The Facebook Page Called ‘Inhumans Of Late Capitalism’ Collects Photos That Show The Ugly Face Of Greed (35 Pics)
“Recording the slow collapse of humanity”—that’s how the Inhumans of Late Capitalism Facebook page explains its mission in life. The page documents just how bizarrely inhumane and immoral life in modern capitalist societies can be by collecting depressingly hilarious pictures from all over the internet.
Scroll down for some of the very best images from Inhumans of Late Capitalism that show the bizarre reality we live in, upvote your fave pics, and let us know what you think in the comments below. And be sure to visit their Facebook page for more awesome content.
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The Inhumans of Late Capitalism page (not to be confused with the Humans of Late Capitalism social media accounts which is a similar but entirely different horse entirely) has over 178.6k followers, all eagerly waiting for the next juicy post making fun of our dystopian everyday lives.
As many of you have probably realized by now, capitalism is far from a perfect system. But what’s the alternative? Does one even exist? Anyone who’s ever opened up a history book knows that communism isn’t an alternative—it’s just a more brutal dystopia that resulted in the deaths of millions of people. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
However, things might not be as grim nowadays as we think. For instance, Paul Mason writes in The Guardian that we might be entering the postcapitalist era without even noticing it. The forces driving this are information technology, the rise of the sharing economy, and new ways of working. Mason’s point of view is refreshing because he paints a bright and sunny picture of the future, instead of one where we’re all doomed and fighting global warming, zombies, and the plague on all fronts.
According to Mason, information technology has reduced the need for work, blurred the “edges between work and free time,” and “loosened the relationship between work and wages.” The amount we have to work will further diminish as automation increases. But that’ll still take a while because our way of thinking has yet to catch up with the power of robotics.
Mason also states that we’re “seeing the spontaneous rise of collaborative production: goods, services, and organizations are appearing that no longer respond to the dictates of the market and the managerial hierarchy. The biggest information product in the world—Wikipedia—is made by volunteers for free, abolishing the encyclopedia business and depriving the advertising industry of an estimated $3bn a year in revenue.”
In other words, we’re seeing various new forms of work, ownership, and businesses that will (in the long run) change our society as we know it. But whether or not it’ll be a postcapitalist society or something else entirely, we’ll find out in a few decades.
Hmm it's good to set boundaries for your kids en give them a sense of responsibility. But not in the way you are proposing mr Coach-dad wich sons and daughters are probably real sad en feel no self worth because you give them the feeling they are never good enough for your approval.
When youre at home all day playing games and your mom tells you to go play outside 🤡
do not buy from a company thats owned by a man who hoards billions! wealth should be distributed!!
It's saying that it's tax refund season and people use that buffer to peace out. McD warns that cash won't last forever so stick with the job.
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I can tell you from personal experience that working at a McDonald's is one of the more dispiriting experiences a person living in a developed country can have.
So, in parsing the note, apparently this McDonald's location has had more than a few employees quit after their tax refunds have come in, and the franchise owners must be tired of constantly looking for new employees. But who gets a huge tax refund from working at McDonald's, unless it's a manager claiming 0 exemptions and is making more that $60K? Who thinks a tax refund on a McDonald's crew person's wage will last more than 2-3 weeks if they quit? And if you quit a job, you don't get unemployment, either, at least not in the US. If there are enough people who've worked for that location that have quit because of "huge tax refunds", I would like to know what other job those people got!
These jobs don’t make careers. People can drop them at will because such businesses don’t give you a path forward. You work the abusive job when you need to, quit when you’re sick of it and have the funds to try something else, and then get another job at another s****y hellhole when that doesn’t work out. There is an endless supply of people forced to work, so the only problem for the business is a greedy corporate mindset, and a lazy manager, where they think employees ought to be consistent and reliable when the job itself isn’t doing s**t for them to live.
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We know many of you may be contemplating **** income taxes and may ****** Tax refunds don't last forever and you need a job when money runs out. You are important to us ***** absence please let us know. **** Please get with your store manager to *****
Well I agree with the second sentence in bold. Think before you act on wanting to work at McDonald’s
Well,, at least on paper it says, that the employees are important. And here in Germany, McD seems to be a good company to work for, if you can put up with the stresss of the job.
Honestly not the worst bit of advice when dealing with hot-headed teen employees. “Please come see me and we can talk it through” is a lot better than “I’m not here to babysit you, grow up or go home” (Although the conversation could end that way, lol. At least they tried.)
Are you serious? So if they use the tax refund as a bridge to find better employment you'll chastise them? A lot of people do that (or start looking when the refunds come in, if they still get them)
A very nice convenience store manager encountered a similar tax-related issue: People wanting to work only part of the year. They would work enough months to max out their allowable Earned Income Credit, file taxes, quit to enjoy the huge tax refunds (not uncommon to be in excess of $10,000, very close to what the employee actually EARNED with a number of children/deductions) then do it all over again. The other employee retention problem he encounters is those who will work for a couple of weeks in order to renew their food stamp eligibility (verified only every 6-18 month) then quit. All the poor man wanted were good employees not looking for a way to take advantage of the system. When he paid a higher wage, they would reach that max allowed and quit sooner so even that wasn't an option.
I've never heard of anyone getting $10K refund, as in ever, unless they have a ridiculous amount of kids (like maybe 5, but definitely at least 6) ** Work as tax preparer during tax season **
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WTF is wrong with the people who make these posters lol
Puccino's is well known for its often self-deprecating humour. From an advertising point of view it seems to be successful.
Note: this post originally had 63 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.
Over half of these have little to nothing to do with capitalism, and almost all of the posts are people just whining about modern society.
I don't know which one is more depressive, the post or the some comments here. Many people can't even dream a better world anymore. Even after seeing all these obviously unacceptable examples first thing they do is to take time a try to advocate "business". Even that student loan advertisement should be enough to stfu with your "business is good" b******t for a moment. Just shut up for a moment!! This is coming from a recent graduate with 30k education debt. You know, kind of a debt many of you were not familiar in your college years.
Um, socialism has quite the dark side as well if you do your research.
And all aspects of that can be trickled down to capitalism. If you mean communism, then I will agree with you there. No great power should be given to one person, or a group of persons. Socialism is a community effort though. If you are talking about failures in socialized medicine, then that can all be attributed to certain people wanting to make profit on medicine (capitalism) and influencing the government through funding...
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And all you are using all the tools of "late capitalism" biching about "late capitalism".
Do we have a f*cking choice though? What's wrong with wanting things to be better? We can still have THIS but in an improved way!
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Fight, fight, fight every aspect of this mass consumerism every way possible. Resist, resist, resist the allure and expansion of these mindless profiteers. Let your life be a resistance to the machine!!!
I got too sick of the pro-laissez-faire capitalism comments from cultists to keep looking through this list.
Capitalism literally rewards people for meeting other people's needs. Socialism brings whole nations into poverty. You probably thinking of 'consumerism', not 'capitalism'.
Load More Replies... Whomever is a socialist and gets triggered by capitalism: F**K YOU. Capitalism has lifted more people out of the worst conditions people can live in than anything else in history. F**K YOU for being a hypocrite and using the tools of capitalism to bash it. F**K YOU for wanting to go socialist and hurt.......absolutely everything. You are ignorant. You may as well say "Let them eat cake"
Yep. You simply can't want a better life for yourself or the people around you. Also stop using the word "triggered" for such a minor complaint please.
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Lotta depressing s**t in there. Mostly depressing because 1 - someone thought it would work and, 2 it worked...
You shouldn't use lazy comparisons to try to prove a point. On the capitalistic/socialist spectrum the US is far more capitalistic than western Europe but the US has much worse corruption at this time. Full capitalism is just as bad as full socialism. You just don't realize that there aren't really any fully capitalistic countries that exist to compare to a full socialist country. The US, Western Europe, China and Japan all have a mix of socialism and capitalism. A good balance of the two is what works best right now.
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Over half of these have little to nothing to do with capitalism, and almost all of the posts are people just whining about modern society.
I don't know which one is more depressive, the post or the some comments here. Many people can't even dream a better world anymore. Even after seeing all these obviously unacceptable examples first thing they do is to take time a try to advocate "business". Even that student loan advertisement should be enough to stfu with your "business is good" b******t for a moment. Just shut up for a moment!! This is coming from a recent graduate with 30k education debt. You know, kind of a debt many of you were not familiar in your college years.
Um, socialism has quite the dark side as well if you do your research.
And all aspects of that can be trickled down to capitalism. If you mean communism, then I will agree with you there. No great power should be given to one person, or a group of persons. Socialism is a community effort though. If you are talking about failures in socialized medicine, then that can all be attributed to certain people wanting to make profit on medicine (capitalism) and influencing the government through funding...
Load More Replies... And all you are using all the tools of "late capitalism" biching about "late capitalism".
Do we have a f*cking choice though? What's wrong with wanting things to be better? We can still have THIS but in an improved way!
Load More Replies... Fight, fight, fight every aspect of this mass consumerism every way possible. Resist, resist, resist the allure and expansion of these mindless profiteers. Let your life be a resistance to the machine!!!
I got too sick of the pro-laissez-faire capitalism comments from cultists to keep looking through this list.
Capitalism literally rewards people for meeting other people's needs. Socialism brings whole nations into poverty. You probably thinking of 'consumerism', not 'capitalism'.
Load More Replies... Whomever is a socialist and gets triggered by capitalism: F**K YOU. Capitalism has lifted more people out of the worst conditions people can live in than anything else in history. F**K YOU for being a hypocrite and using the tools of capitalism to bash it. F**K YOU for wanting to go socialist and hurt.......absolutely everything. You are ignorant. You may as well say "Let them eat cake"
Yep. You simply can't want a better life for yourself or the people around you. Also stop using the word "triggered" for such a minor complaint please.
Load More Replies... Lotta depressing s**t in there. Mostly depressing because 1 - someone thought it would work and, 2 it worked...
You shouldn't use lazy comparisons to try to prove a point. On the capitalistic/socialist spectrum the US is far more capitalistic than western Europe but the US has much worse corruption at this time. Full capitalism is just as bad as full socialism. You just don't realize that there aren't really any fully capitalistic countries that exist to compare to a full socialist country. The US, Western Europe, China and Japan all have a mix of socialism and capitalism. A good balance of the two is what works best right now.
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