The subtleties of who is and isn’t the bourgeoisie takes a level of brain power that the average person just does not have today.
Yeah, the subtleties of "whoever owns a business/land" or "whoever owns capital" or "capitalists and landowners".
The hyperfixation on billionaires shifts the blame from the system and class society to the personal excesses and individual wealth concentration of those at the tippity top. It also completely ignores how billionaires get to where they are (what happens with businesses below 1 billion) and has the implication that they're the "small guys who might be good as opposed to evil billionaires", which normalizes and legitimizes the system. Besides, you can't really focus just on the billionaires via reformism given how they own most of the power and can lobby the shit out of any bourgeois government, leaving anti-billionaire talk just talk.
This narrative should be actively fought against, not accepted given how it aids and reinforces the system.
Yeah, but posts and the recent sudden narrativization of only billionaires being bad or them being "the focus" really tries to divert from the existence of bourgeois as a class.
No, it's exactly how capitalism works and the narratives like technofeudalism claiming that we live in some post-capitalist neo-feudalism are nonsense.
There's a concept of fictitious capital, which is different from other types of capital in that it doesn't exist yet - it's a claim to income generated in future production. It's nothing new, Marx for example wrote about this in Capital (written in second half of 1800, almost 200 years ago).
Besides, a lot of tech companies do report losses because they put most of their profits in R&D, both to avoid taxes and probably develop new products along the way. It isn't an unfounded investment.
The shooter was trans, and some media + lots of online spaces are already spreading mental illness narratives. Wouldn't be surprised if this is going to get used against trans people in general, it's sad.
It's more of a critique of the "just do something" culture. Killing one farmer will just result in that farmer getting replaced with an identical cog in the machine, it also won't magically inspire all the sheep to kill their oppressors as seen historically with humans - that kind of thing is only found within books.
Pretty much the only kind of effective action if the goal is to change things rather than merely feel good in the moment is organization, but it is a slow, tedious and dangerous process - it's not something that can be achieved immediately or individually.
Then the sheep mounts a resistance by doing the best it can (killing the farmer or shouting very loudly), see that whatever it has done hasn't changed anything and that nobody is joining or paying attention to it, and then it's an express ticket to meatpacking plant or worse.
Mounting a resistance is much harder than "just doing something"
Calling a system something else doesn't make it different, all of these are still fundamentally capitalist. Production remains commodity-based and mediated by markets, labor power stays commodified and exploitative (if not via capitalists, then via the state apparatus or the markets), wealth accumulation remains in place leading to inevitable snowballing monopolies and wealth gaps, etc.
Only by fundamentally changing what things are produced for and how the goods are distributed (for example, instead of for profit we produce for use to fill people's needs) only then does the system overcome capitalism.
Government ownership over industry where they do have direct control would still be capitalism though, as long as commodity production, wage labor and markets exist, since that's what actually defines it. Ownership alone isn't relevant.
Even with how shitty conservative elements are, most of the issues they raise are actually correct and often missed by progressive elements, but their proposed solutions or narrative around those issues is pure garbage.
I remember seeing Andrew Tate of all people start talking about how people are living a slave's life, working for others while getting barely enough for subsistence with no real prospects for social mobility, a point that one could pull from Marx. However, the solution that he proposes is a theocracy and return to traditionalism for some reason, which is nonsense.
They're fighting Trump though! I've peeked a couple of times at the Democrat subreddit and it's always "some democrat saying some MEAN one-liner towards Trump during some hearing! #resist".
50 more of those one-liners and Trump will feel soooo bad and quit being a president, which will fix literally everything (great man theory)!
Idk, I took the "this is the best we got" as some sort of acceptance of it as in the narrative should be used and supported