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Technology@lemmy.world•"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.English
1·3 years agoThis would be a useful additional feature, I think the shock value of the method I’m suggesting would have potential to interest at least some press outlets (probably not the major ones who would recognise it as damaging to the people they represent though). You need some novelty in this kind of thing to get it to spread.
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Technology@lemmy.world•"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.English
1·3 years agoThat’s kinda the point. Being able to see just how few people own literally everything and thus are influencing opinion through means that people currently completely overlook is powerful. Advertising is literally propaganda. Consumer culture is propaganda. When you cut through that and make people conscious of it on a constant minute to minute basis you will see rapid radicalisation occur. Our society relies on a system of carefully designed barriers that create separation between the people and the ruling class in a way that is unnoticeable to the average person without prompting.
Think of it like pulling back the curtain in the wizard of oz for people.
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Technology@lemmy.world•"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.English
2·3 years agoI’ve always believed it would be useful to have a thing like this but for brand logos.
But instead of blurring or blocking the brand logo like an adblocker what it does instead is show you the face of the top shareholder in that brand. Remove the brands and show the assholes that own them. Where it’s not a single person you replace that brand with the name of the hedgefund or bank that owns the investment.
It would bring people’s attention away from brand consumerism and to a constant consciousness of the ruling class looming over them in everything.


I don’t care. Tax the rich is stupid.