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I would rather live with ads than with literal bread lines my family stood in decades ago, in a socialist state (that funnily had more govt propaganda than ads)
by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
I would rather live with ads than with literal bread lines my family stood in decades ago, in a socialist state (that funnily had more govt propaganda than ads).
- OtomotO 2y agoHow about none of these? Why do I always need to choose the lesser evil and never good?
- cscurmudgeon 2y agoShow me a large scale society that hasn’t have both. This over commercialization may be needed as a buffer against hyper scarcity
- OtomotO 2y agoI don't need to show anything. Anything newly invented wasn't shown before it was, well, invented. So what stops us humans from not living in crappy dictatorships and not in shitty capitalism?
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoBecause you’re stuck in a conceptual framing where the existence of things you don’t like is subject to your choice. You’ll never be satisfied if your benchmark for good is that every market transaction in the country should be something you’d endorse, or that nobody should ever show you a piece of content you don’t want to see for their own benefit.
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- micromacrofoot 2y agomy local food bank has lines every week
- cscurmudgeon 2y agoNow imagine that but with everyone in that line except the leaders.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoIt doesn't have to be black/white, either/or. The US can afford to feed everyone and still not be 'Socialist'. I think you are confusing 'Capitalism' with 'Cruelty'. What if I were to tell you, you don't have to be cruel in order to virtue-signal your faith in 'Capitalism'.
- mopsi 2y agoNow imagine the entire society standing in such lines, even the best doctors and brightest engineers, for all basic necessities, not knowing if there's anything left by the time it's their turn.
- taurknaut 2y agotbh I can't ever imagine american society functioning that well. Someone would get shot
- micromacrofoot 2y agodamn "you have to stand in line for food because you're dumb" is rough
- taurknaut 2y agoVery odd dichotomy. Did you never consider living in a world that has no bread lines nor advertisements? That seems like the one most would choose. In this country, we have both bread lines AND advertisements!