Atlas667

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by Atlas667 8mo ago
Capitalism is known to have killed multiple billions world-wide. Nearly all of the poor countries on earth are capitalist. World war 1 was a war of capitalist reorganization, Fascism was a capitalist economic system, therefore WW2 was initi
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
You are displaying your ignorance with pride. Just because you don't know what capitalism is, doesn't mean other people do not know. Just because you only read sources from capitalist media platforms doesn't mean there isn&#x
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
Nah, you're trying to misconstrue people. Corporatism is not a thing. Capitalists hold fundamental power over society, they collectively are the state. They own the things the rest of the people need to survive. Assuming you are a work
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
You didn't say anything. People do have this power right now, they are called capitalists, they are a part of the tech/info/policing industry. You don't have this control, I don't have this control. It's not hu
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
The definition of capitalism is the private ownership of production and its use to generate profits. I think a coerced assumption you may have of capitalism is that corruption is an unintended side effect, but it actually follows from its p
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
To me this is simply a consequence of the capitalist mode of production.
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
Just another instance of companies participating in the creation of the police state. These companies do not do this under external pressure from the state, they do this because it benefits and consolidates their power as well. It's br
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
The interests of the people who own/control technology, and have the most influence over standards, will make sure you are forced to participate. And they have always organized society to make sure this is the case. It's not a wac
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
This is a non-discussion. You have to know enough about underlying and higher level systems to do YOUR job well. And AI cannot fully replace human review.
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
An explanation to your analysis: "War begins to be presented as the heroic alternative, the last hope, the “way out” from the unending nightmare of economic crisis, misery and unemployment. Fascism, the most complete expression of mode
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
It's the ratcheting mechanism of bipartisanship. One party develops, the other party cracks down on potential economic wins for the working class. Both parties make sure the capitalist class stay in power.
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
This has been part of US plans for decades. Sanctions are warcrimes and the US has been punishing civilians and causing their death and suffering since the 60s. "...every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the econo
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
By chance I was reading about this yesterday, only in the context of unemployment. In Das Kapital, Section 5: The Strife Between Workman and Machine, Marx talks about how the automatic looms caused some of the very first waves of mass unemp
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by Atlas667 8mo ago
Just cause knowledge can be reduced to predictive capabilities and judgement calls does not mean systems are defined arbitrarily. Everything is defined as to its relative function in/to society and our material endeavors and the social
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
I wasn't using super exploitation as a specific term, just as intense exploitation. Slavery was not profitable in the industrial north, just the agrarian south. In the North they used cheap free-labor from Irish and German proles. If t
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
What?
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
Industrialization killed slavery not morality. The reason for abolishing slavery was that it was a backwards system that prevented the super exploitation that came naturally for the proletariat. The abolition of slavery was the proletarizat
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
There is a quote by Gandhi where he is talking about the Holocaust and he says: "The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs..." This is very idealist
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
These types of cultural analysis always fails to be substantial because they rely on "losing our way" argument consciously or even on a subliminal moral level. I think this one is kind of better because it tries to place social tr
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
I'm not gonna pretend I know about the specifics of DB, but tales of crappy public services are plenty around the world and a lot of the critique is aimed at enabling privatization. My anecdotal evidence is that these public entities u
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
Watch the neoliberals feed off of rigid bureaucratic incompetence to pander for privatization and create for-profit bureaucratic incompetence. All with massive subsidies that citizens will pay through taxes or cutting of public services els
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by Atlas667 9mo ago
Kind of a mixed bag, really. I believe in historic Jesus and I think he was a revolutionary who succeeded in his peaceful politics and was thus put to death. His movement was then made inert and magical in order to make it compatible with e
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
Classic capitalist state leeching tactics, I'm betting somebody got a favor somewhere.
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
Amazon probably weren't paying the politicians enough money so the politicians aren't gonna let them screw the consumer! Ah, capitalism, with your endless power imbalance.
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
On a related note I HATE how when I go buy alcohol they have to scan my ID here. Potentially having to participate in marketing schemes for a beer?? Its not worth it. There should also be a read only ID method with more watermarking validat
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
Do you know how a lot of research is funded?
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
Needs about 50 more "Here's why I do _____ and why it works"
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
Understand the mind to then exploit it. Why else would they put so much money into something if not to try and get more out of it? Capitalists' morals are driven by their social position. To them this is right becauae its rewarding. To
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
"Pariah", they've had the longest embargo on earth (which has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths), they had 90% of their whole countries infrastructure bombed by the US, and the Korean war has been called a genocide in th
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by Atlas667 10mo ago
Imagine collectively trying to recreate a human brain with semiconductors so capitalists can save money by not having to employ as many people

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