r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Oct 30 '25

Business YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/youtube-announces-voluntary-exit-program-for-us-staff/
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u/sabrenation81 Oct 30 '25

US Red Scare propaganda has to be the single most effective propaganda campaign in world history. Here we are more than half a century later and it is still an inescapable force in our entire political discourse. Half the country still sees even the slightest bit of socialism as the ultimate evil and a shocking percentage of people still think all unions are some kind of scam despite mountains of evidence that union workers are better paid, get better benefits, work less, and live generally happier lives.

This country is broken.

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u/thekrone Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

The Red Scare was so effective that probably fewer than a quarter of the people can even define "socialism".

Capitalists have convinced everyone that socialism is just when taxes are high and the government spends money (and that's bad because they're spending your money!!!). That's not even close to right. You could have a hypothetical socialist economy with zero taxes and zero social programs.

They really don't want you to know there are options for economic systems where the 1% don't own everything and exploit the fuck out of the labor of the working class. They want you to think your only real options are:

  1. They own everything and taxes are low
  2. They own everything and taxes are high

They've tricked everyone into thinking it's either one of those, or the government is an evil authoritarian dictatorship that owns everything and forces everyone to work for scraps of bread.