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Another possibility is that the uber-rich techbros can see that, if we keep heading the way we're going, the whole thing comes crashing down. We've been speedru

Another possibility is that the uber-rich techbros can see that, if we keep heading the way we're going, the whole thing comes crashing down. We've been speedrunning a far-left utopia for quite a while now, and it's not going well. Whether it's some kind of currency collapse, internal civil war, or something else, this is a death slide towards something bad. Assuming that's the explanation, then radical change isn't surprising. How radical can be argued, but turning the rudder on the ship of state can't be.

rwyinuse 2y ago
Depends from the definition of "far-left utopia" I guess. I admit that I'm an outsider, but in terms of social welfare and equality, the US still seems closer to capitalist dystopia than a far-left utopia. Expensive healthcare mostly tied to work / insurance, very expensive education, high wealth inequality and pretty poor social safety nets. At the same time, on many "culture war" issues America has seemed too extreme for my taste. For instance, discriminating people based on their "race" in university admissions is absolutely insane. But the solution to fixing these crazy ideas shouldn't be going all the way to far-right, with its own crazies like anti-vaxxers, Putin fanboys and climate-change deniers. I miss the times when most popular politicians were centrists.
roughly 2y ago
> speedrunning a far-left utopia What the fuck are you talking about? We don’t even have socialized medicine in this country.
- throw0101c 2y ago
  > What the fuck are you talking about? We don’t even have socialized medicine in this country. And in a lot of the countries in Europe where things are further along the 'speedrunning' spectrum things don't seem too bad. Heck, Sweden has more billionaires per capita and a wider social safety net: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

rwyinuse 2y ago

Depends from the definition of "far-left utopia" I guess. I admit that I'm an outsider, but in terms of social welfare and equality, the US still seems closer to capitalist dystopia than a far-left utopia. Expensive healthcare mostly tied to work / insurance, very expensive education, high wealth inequality and pretty poor social safety nets. At the same time, on many "culture war" issues America has seemed too extreme for my taste. For instance, discriminating people based on their "race" in university admissions is absolutely insane. But the solution to fixing these crazy ideas shouldn't be going all the way to far-right, with its own crazies like anti-vaxxers, Putin fanboys and climate-change deniers. I miss the times when most popular politicians were centrists.

roughly 2y ago

> speedrunning a far-left utopia What the fuck are you talking about? We don’t even have socialized medicine in this country.

throw0101c 2y ago
> What the fuck are you talking about? We don’t even have socialized medicine in this country. And in a lot of the countries in Europe where things are further along the 'speedrunning' spectrum things don't seem too bad. Heck, Sweden has more billionaires per capita and a wider social safety net: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...