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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Free access to information meant everyone would be educated and informed, and able to freely communicate and organize.

    Could be, not would be. They still can be. But they won’t be.

    Corporations turned it into a tool of oppression.

    No the people turned it into a tool of distraction from the pain of life using the tools corporations were happy to provide.

    Technology has never and will never save us from capitalism on its own.

    Capitalism isn’t the reason that free access to information hasn’t educated and informed everyone. Exactly the same indifference to education and organisation would exist in the absence of capitalism. The limitation isn’t capitalism, the limitation is the suffering that life necessarily implies. In the face of relentless suffering, most people are not motivated to learn beyond what’s necessary to survive.