{"id":3831,"date":"2018-09-10T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2018-09-10T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:00:58","slug":"anti-capitalist-tirade-written-at-2000-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3831","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Capitalist Tirade Written at $2000 MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Joe Krzyston<\/em><\/p>\n

A stirring message to the proletariat was written, revised, and broadcast to a largely indifferent audience today, all from the backlit keys of a $2000 MacBook Pro. The irony, entirely lost upon the author and his peers, was not present in the tone of the text, either.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe primary driver of suffering worldwide is American consumerist greed. Period. End of discussion,\u201d typed the sociology major, aglow in the light of a 15-inch screen, enhanced by a Radeon Pro 555X graphics package with four extra gigabytes of memory. \u201cAs long as monstrous capitalism is the driving force behind society, there will be no justice, no peace, no true prosperity.\u201d His typing was made easier by the MacBook\u2019s Touch Bar, a feature that I do not understand well enough to make any more jokes about. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, this baby is the backbone of my arsenal against corporate greed and excess, especially the exploitation of people internationally,\u201d said the student, looking at the laptop admiringly. \u201cLiterally the only thing I can think of not to like about this laptop is how long it took to get here after I ordered it. I don\u2019t know where they ship it from, but it might as well have been on the other side of the world.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

As for the man\u2019s future with the laptop activism, it\u2019s hard to say what\u2019s in store, but it\u2019s clear there\u2019ll be no rest for him anytime soon. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to say what the next corporate target is,\u201d said the young man, dividing his attention between our interview and a Bernie Sanders tweet open on the laptop before him. \u201cCould be Walmart, could be Pfizer, could be Amazon. Which reminds me, I had some dope anti-corporate stickers I wanted to order for my laptop. I\u2019m thinking of this one. It says \u2018This Machine Kills Corporate Greed.\u2019 Sick, right?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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