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Capitalism!
by dboreham 2mo ago
Capitalism!
- azan_ 2mo agoAbsolutely, there's no scam outside capitalism!
- jkahrs595 2mo agoOutside of capitalism is outer space, so your snarky comment is actually true.
- ColdStream 2mo agoGet the sarcasm, but of course there is scam outside of capitalism. Its just that the capitalistic model almost turns it from an inconvenient bug into a mainline feature. Not saying there is an absolute perfect alternative, anyone who says that is usually shoveling smoke, but there are flaws with this economic model to be addressed.
- azan_ 2mo agoNot true at all. I'm from Poland which was occupied by communist for a long time, and I can guarantee you - the amount of scam we had under that rule was orders of magnitude larger than what we have now.
- ColdStream 2mo agoYeah I did forget about that. When you flatten the pay structure across the board, it makes bribes and scams so much more desirable. But also, communist structure in practices is sort of the total opposite of capitalism at a distance. It was said that Karl Marx was completely right about Capitalism and completely wrong about Communism. And that is fairly accurate, both have big flaws. Most times, the opposite of one bad idea is another bad idea.
- azan_ 2mo agoI think it's really far fetched to say capitalism is bad idea. It's great system, it has some problems, but the upside is so big and alternatives are so bad that it's really unfair to call it bad system.
- ndsipa_pomu 2mo agoI think that encouraging corporations to destroy our environment (e.g. climate change) as fast as possible to maximise profits is a very good reason to call it a bad system. Yes, some goods and services become much more efficient, but now we're all going to have to pay the price for it.
- inigyou 2mo agoLike the current never-ending heat wave. It's predicted to go on for months btw and the ocean is 4 Kelvins warmer than it should be.
- pbhjpbhj 2mo agoYh, the end of civilisation is a good thing after all, so enabling greedy fuckers to accelerate all life on Earth ever more rapidly towards destruction has to be good ...
- azan_ 2mo agoCivilization is thriving and we are living in the best times (thanks to capitalism).
- jojobas 2mo agoAt least in capitalism you have the choice to look for a malware-free alternative. 100% USSR, had it survived to the IoT era, would penalize you for not having a state-mandated surveillance device on at all times.
- DoctorOetker 2mo agoI agree fully with your assessment of USSR but basically any nation state with the power does such things. Show me a COTS smartphone where the end-user can burn the OTP fuses for his personal public key, so they can have it boot their own custom signed firmware, and control exactly what runs in TrustZone's SW Secure World?
- jojobas 2mo agoYou can flash yourself GrapheneOS with your own keys for the bootloader. Then again "I can't make sure all manufacturers aren't in collusion" when FBI sues Apple and others (and fails) over suspects' phone access is quite different from "every device sold in the country must have government malware", as it is in China.
- inigyou 2mo agoI can't find a device in the USA that doesn't come with government malware. Is this another instance of the USA accusing China of everything the USA is doing (like with the credit scores)?
- wil421 2mo agoChinese!
- Epa095 2mo agoChinese capitalism!
- red-iron-pine 2mo agoCommunism with Chinese Characteristics