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by 0x262d 7y ago
competition and capitalism work well to drive technological improvement in conditions of extreme scarcity such as existed 100+ years ago. of course, it does this pretty violently. there's no reason to believe it is better than democrat
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by 0x262d 7y ago
SA is completely in favor of automation and actually calls for reducing the workweek. But under capitalism, automation is used to drive down wages and increase the ranks of the unemployed, which is the primary concern of the (growing amount
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by 0x262d 7y ago
I don't think "unbiased" sources exist, that's a technocratic myth as well. And I think your second concern is only valid for bad public versions of this. The state is perfectly capable of whatever product planning our h
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by 0x262d 7y ago
but they're not. that's a huge misconception. public services are almost universally underfunded and almost universally more efficient than the private sector providing a similar good with similar constraints (eg, being accessible
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by 0x262d 7y ago
everything in this comment is completely, empirically wrong. public services are more efficient and have been basically forever. where public services are bad, it's generally because they are desperately underfunded and cut into by the
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by 0x262d 7y ago
This is a brilliantly concise explanation of this. I think it slightly glosses over one thing, which is that in any case where it might actually be implemented, UBI is basically a trojan horse to undercut and defund actually existing and us
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by 0x262d 7y ago
does anyone who is opposed to planned markets ever talk about the information complexity of accounting for all externalities? genuine question.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
this is an example of what one could sarcastically describe as a "market failure"
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by 0x262d 7y ago
yep, just 10 years of financial data. I'm sure they could replay that easily lol
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by 0x262d 7y ago
this is absurd. these people are reactionaries. they should know that false accusations almost never happen and if they act in good faith they'll be fine. instead they're going to professionally penalize women. classic.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
yes, it’s an absurdly out of touch pro-capitalist propagandistic article. what really puts the cherry on top is that a market crash is expected soon, with much less ability to cushion it than last time. guess what market crashes due to medi
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by 0x262d 7y ago
well Trump was elected president in 2016 and there might be a socialist elected president in 2020. so people realize.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
have any good resources for this?
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by 0x262d 7y ago
this was predicted by Lenin in Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, a good portion of which is dedicated to the unstoppable gradual rise of monopolies and cartels. more people here should read it.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
no, free markets are an illusion that don't actually ever exist because they're immediately distorted by various things like market dominance. property developers exist to make money and use real estate to extort poor people. regu
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by 0x262d 7y ago
sorry for forgetting to qualify "free market" as "so-called 'free' market". there isn't a shortage of housing, there is a shortage of affordable housing, which for-profit developers don't care about b
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by 0x262d 7y ago
sorry for forgetting to qualify "free market" as "so-called 'free' market". there isn't a shortage of housing, there is a shortage of affordable housing, which for-profit developers don't care about b
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by 0x262d 7y ago
it turns out that if you care about everyone having a place to live that they can afford given the jobs available to them, the free market sucks. the solution is to build more (socially owned, permanently affordable, high quality) housing.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
source?
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by 0x262d 7y ago
the next step of analysis is that they behave this way to capture more growth and market share, which they must do under capitalism or lose out to any more ruthless company.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
dictatorship of capital
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by 0x262d 7y ago
this is basically equivalent to pretending that as long as no one says "this is my evil plan" before doing something, it's not evil. which even google doesn't bother to try to do anymore.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
you realize this is qualitatively, fundamentally different from that, right... how about this prediction: people will be suggesting that their machine learning models are a big step towards AGI, forever.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
the last-mile problem is made up to justify post-hoc why public transit sucks, when really it sucks because it is underfunded (as an intentional act of sabotage)
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by 0x262d 8y ago
anyone switched to an entirely different email provider as a result of this? have success, and which ones? starting to use gmail again and it's pretty annoying.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
ooh my god this is such an embarrassing position on this. they had someone from the heritage foundation. stop buying in to the bloviation about free speech for the heritage foundation. I have no common ground with them.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
if late capitalism ruins stack overflow I swear to god I will throw a fit online more seriously, this is a real concern, a super useful communal website with really high traffic is ripe for commodification.
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by 0x262d 8y ago
this is such a silly line of reasoning. you're saying we can only make the incredible deadline by changing things in a very moderate fashion, rather than a radical one? just like we've been doing to get to this point lol?
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by 0x262d 8y ago
1. individual cars are a dumb way to "fix" the environment, they're hyper resource intensive and have so many problems 2. the good way is to build mass transit and radically change society, which is a political issue. tesla c
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by 0x262d 8y ago
hard to feel bad for spotify, another publicly traded company maximizing profit and posing as a person, but it does highlight the downsides of rent-seeking behavior. it's almost like private markets are bad and always lead to this sort

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