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Why do only few people realize that bots ARE NOT(!) the problem! Our f*cked up economic system is! If we would live in. better society in which capitalism is fi
by Akito 10y ago
Why do only few people realize that bots ARE NOT(!) the problem! Our f*cked up economic system is! If we would live in. better society in which capitalism is finally known to be horrible by a majority of people, everyone would profit from robots and almost everyone (except those mind-sick workaholics) would be happy. We just need to finally acknowledge, that capitalism is bullshit, period.
P.S.: I hate communism more than capitalism, so don't dare to accuse me of being one of those who my family fled from...
- antisthenes 10y agoWhy do you hate communism? Is there a legitimate reason?
- knieveltech 10y agoGiven his statement I'm assuming his family fled a particular implementation of communism at some point in the past. I struggle with responses to statements like OP has made for a number of reasons. I find it questionable that authoritarianism is a required component of a communist society. That said it has clearly been a component of all implementations of "communism" at the national level. I'm air quoting that because again it's questionable that authoritarian regimes bear any resemblance to actual ML political theory, and most real world implementations were merely authoritarian regimes that borrowed the stalinist playbook and enough ML buzzwords to offer a fig leaf during their rise to power.
- Akito 10y agoThe main reason why I stated this about communism is the constant buzzword-like usage of "communist" by too many right-wingers, when they read anything related to critisizing their oh so beloved capitalistic society. I don't follow communists and want to kill them. So I don't despise it like my worst enemy. But, especially regarding communism that actually happened, like Russia, East-Germany, Cuba, North Korea, etc, I stand against those types with everything I am. And honestly communism wouldn't be ao shitty if people had more self-discpline and could sacrifice freedom for the sake of a better environment for the majority of people. But humans don't work like this which is why communism never worked without making it unfair and totalitarian.
- dogma1138 10y agoCommunism requires a planned economy which requires authoritarianism. Post scarcity != communism, if we go by the motief of this thread then the federation is not communist it also doesn't have a planned economy.
- knieveltech 10y agoI hear what you're saying. I question the assertion that economic planning requires authoritarianism, unless you're being really loose with the term.
- dogma1138 10y agoplanned economy isn't the same thing as economic planning. "an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by the government." https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/planned_economy https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/planned_economy
- knieveltech 10y agoAnd government oversight isn't the same thing as authoritarianism. As with most things the devil is usually in the details. I recommend looking into the anarcho-syndicalist strategy for structuring economic activity for a snapshot of one possible approach to the problem of establishing planned economic activity without devolving into a gulag-riddled dystopia.
- dogma1138 10y agoThis isn't oversight, this is the government controlling all capital, the market, and every other part of the economy. Anarcho-syndicalism isn't an economic model, it's a revolutionary model which is the most common problem with the vast majority of so called alternative models to planned economy or the free market. The models are more about how to get control over the power and influence but are very light on what to do next.
- dollaholla 10y agoOffer solutions, not problems.