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.
How sick is that?! Sure, make a person loose their job so you get a discount!
Incredibly. There no way I'd spend my money on any business that had such a policy. It's gross.
Load More Replies...I don't think he'd fire an employee, but maybe deduct the reward from their wages. I've seen Walmart employees that lock themselves in the family bathroom for well over 30 minutes because they are texting friends. I once saw a guy at a grocery store that was standing around the corner from the entrance in a cart corral texting his buddies. He was there so long, customers had loaded in more carts around him. And then another time I was waiting for 20 minutes for an employee to exit a bathroom stall because she was on the phone with her friend gossiping about the guy her friend went out with. Too many employees are wasting time on personal phones instead of tending to customers and doing their job. Often times, bosses do this sort of thing because they've gotten multiple complaints about an employee that found their phone more important than their job. And let me clarify...these people were on the clock..not on breaks or lunches. That's when you should be checking your phone.
Do you know how much Walmart pays employees? There’s no incentive to give a damn.
Load More Replies...I'm pretty sure this is a joke -- on NotAlwaysRight.com servers are always annoyed when they try to go by the rules but then the customer complains and the manager caves and gives the complainer a discount. It's very bad policy since it rewards the worst people but managers are terrified of a bad yelp or whatever rating.
there's a sure fire way to get spit in your food or drink...and deserve it
So, informing on someone breaking a rule they agreed to follow makes you deserve to be tricked into consuming someone's bodily fluid?
Load More Replies...Rules are rules, but this is obscenely disrespectful. Treat your employees with respect and dignity, and they’ll take care of your business and your customers. I’ve often found that letting employees establish some of your rules not only gives them a sense of belonging, but enforcement through peer pressure can be surprisingly effective. Everyone just wants a great place to work, so help them create one. A sign like this indicates a toxic environment with terrible leadership. As a consumer I’d refuse to do business there.
You'd refuse to give money to a business that expects the workers in the service industry to serve customers instead of being on their goddamn phones? You are definitely a young person.
Load More Replies...So this will definitely be a problem if you have a heart attack. No one is calling 911. But enjoy that 25% off.
Yup. Yay for Amazon, for letting an employee die on the factory floor because he wasn't seen in time. He'd been complaining for a few weeks of chest pain, had gone to see their on-site medical staff, was told he was just dehydrated and tired, I think they gave him some water, or Gatorade, and aspirin, or something, and told him he had to go back to work for his next shifts and sent home. He was dead of a heart-attack within the next few weeks. This happened more than once. Three employees, I think it was. Yeah, some corporations don't give one red f**k about their workers. Oh, and the owner of Amazon won't allow his workers to unionize. Gee, what a f*****g surprise.
Load More Replies...Just like a speeding ticket. If you don't want to get busted, don't do it.
So your going to tell me none of you have ever used your phone at work!
Staff members f*****g about with their phones instead of working is an actual issue- especially where I work. Sure, no one should be getting fired because of it, but there is a reason why it's called 'work'; because you're there to work, not slack off constantly.
I support this without any second thoughts: cell phones and social media addiction have become a plague and now, as a customer, I have to wait until employees get done with their chat or scrolling through useless stuff. I don't understand why anyone would think it's ok to waste the customers' time to go on Facebook or instagram. It's no different than hiring an employee with other forms of addiction. I understand if there is no customer and nothing to do, but I've witnessed too many times employees busy their friends or their phones to have patience for it.
Then it's the manager's job to police that. It's not for customers to have the power to make up allegations to get a discount.
Load More Replies...Fair enough. Staff know the rules, so there's one sure fire way to not get caught.
My job has a strict cellphone policy this I don't have a problem with because when your on the clock you shouldn't be on your phone except for appropriate times like breaks and lunch. Everyone should have your jobs number like family in case of an emergency. I have failed students for being on the phone while they were supposed to be watch how to treat a patient unacceptable its a respect thing
There's no wrong using phones during work hours, as long as you know how to limit your self, know when to use and don't be that person who holds his/her phone all the time. I'm sad that they have to implement a policy like that.
Although this is super mean and evil, I can totally understand the need to do it. Most restaurants, factories, and workplaces have lockers for their employees to put their things, including their cellphones, when they clock in. They can catch up on their messages and missed calls once they clock out. Otherwise, what you get is people who can't do a proper job because they may miss the latest comment someone put on their Facebook feed. So, while this sign is disgusting, so is waiting in line because the employee who is supposed to give you a service is on the phone in a personal call or focused on the tweet that he or she needs to post asap. -_-
Just send a text to your server and when he looks at it, Bingo! 25% discount!
Why is everyone angry? They're supposed to be WORKING! I wouldn't employ any of you.
Because it's deeply unprofessional to set patrons against staff like this. It will encourage false accusations for discounts and a way to have a vendetta against an employee for a difficult customer. I can't believe you have to have this explained to you.
Load More Replies...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!!
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.
Imagine the homeless having to sleep on a bench like this
And it's an anti-homeless bench, too. That's not an armrest, it's too small for that... it's just meant to make it harder to sleep there.
Attention: you are expendable. You aren't special. There are others just like you now have a great day!
Frozen stickers are on bananas too and it reads "limited edition". Wtf!
But how is this bad? They're not exploiting you for money, just trying to make sure you're ok and they're trying to make sure you have a plan on getting a safe place of your own to stay
This is common. I was told to do this type of thing when I worked in retail years ago tbh.
Um, how old is this billboard? You can't touch a home in San Francisco for less than $1 million.
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.
Load More Replies...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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