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by TFYS 1y ago
Inevitability and naturalness are not valid arguments for anything, unless you think naturalness has intrinsic value. You probably don't, because then you'd be against most things humans do these days. Diseases are inevitable and
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by TFYS 2y ago
For every situation like yours there's probably 10 where a product that doesn't work is advertised and people waste their money and continue suffering. This is not a problem that should be fixed by intrusive data gathering and adv
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by TFYS 2y ago
> generally trends toward making the highest value messages for both the audience and advertiser get seen over lower value messages in any given situation (because those are the ones that can afford the market clearing price on said adve
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by TFYS 2y ago
Even if that 140B is real, how does that make the corruption and waste that this kind of purchase would be acceptable? Do you think they'll stop the corruption and waste at that? Do you think they won't just replace waste that did
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by TFYS 2y ago
I'm starting to think that current forms of democracy have become outdated and impossible due to the effects of social media and the levels of wealth concentration. When liars can spread their own truths through social media, and there
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by TFYS 2y ago
The trouble with this is that a criminal that has enough capital to back him/her can use the media to make it seem like it's a political hunt even when it isn't. Supporters of a corrupt criminal will benefit a lot from gettin
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by TFYS 2y ago
Seems like they've tried this before with little success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina#...
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by TFYS 2y ago
1. And made it clear by threatening to take land from a European country by force. 2. That's funny coming from a person who is building a totalitarian system. He was supporting parties that would make a similar development in Europe po
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by TFYS 2y ago
I don't think this is the case. I think it's about wealth inequality and the resulting centralization of power. When you concentrate all the wealth to such a small number of people, the only thing they can do with it is to buy mor
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by TFYS 2y ago
Yes, having billions poured into creating foods that are as addictive as possible and manipulation campaigns to get people hooked is a much better system. This system also affects your freedoms in many ways. If a large portion of the popula
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by TFYS 2y ago
People came up with the information problem at a time when our ability to collect information and our computing power were several orders of magnitude inferior to what we have today. I don't think it's as big a problem as people t
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by TFYS 2y ago
Prices in the nordics aren't that bad.
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by TFYS 2y ago
> Please by all means, name these superior civilizations with minimal wealth inequality. You have to go quite far back to find those civilizations, so you can't really compare them to modern ones. Also depends on what the goals of s
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by TFYS 2y ago
None of that prevents extremely wealthy people and organizations from buying enough politicians and media to corrupt the system. Europe has a lot of those things and is struggling with the same issues as the US. We need to either prevent su
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by TFYS 2y ago
With private companies there's a lot of inefficiency that comes from having to have competition. Without competition you'll have monopolies, and combined with the profit motive those are a disaster. But to enable competition you n
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by TFYS 2y ago
We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective. Large concentrations of power emerge because we haven't yet discovered how to make effective decisions democratically. Representative
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by TFYS 2y ago
What if they have and it's what they want? If you're a billionaire who already has everything this system can offer, you'd likely desire a system that can give you even more. A system that doesn't limit you in ways that
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by TFYS 2y ago
I’m not the person you’re responding to, but I’ll answer that yes, it has always been a problem that so much influence is concentrated in so few hands. It’s been said that a dictatorship would be the best form of governance if you could ens
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by TFYS 2y ago
If other large powers stop being afraid of the US, and if allies can't trust the US, then the US will lose its status and the losses from that are probably a lot more than the billions given to Ukraine.
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by TFYS 2y ago
What would Ukraine gain from a deal where they give up their natural resources in exchange for a pinky promise between an invading dictator and his 'wanna-be dictator' friend to allow Ukraine to remain an independent country?
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by TFYS 2y ago
It's not just a marketing problem, because the amount of information you'd have to have in order to make a truly rational decision is beyond any simple marketing campaign. Your competitors would also be creating campaigns against
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by TFYS 2y ago
> And if the customers are not willing to pay more, it sounds like they're actually happy with the current offering and that's not an area that your fellow humans would find useful for you to work on. People would need to have
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by TFYS 2y ago
Things won't happen overnight, but this is a big push for Europe to get its act together regarding tech. And if Europe can't manage it, there's also China. If the US becomes a dictatorship, then Europe might as well turn to C
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by TFYS 2y ago
Every rule in our society is upheld with coercion. Even if we had zero taxation, there'd be plenty of other rules that people would be coerced into following. Without a democratic government, the rules that people are forced to follow
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by TFYS 2y ago
My guess is that they want capital to have power over everything. Organizations that you can't buy and that have any amount of power are going to get destroyed. That's why the opposition is doing nothing about this. They're a
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by TFYS 2y ago
Being the most successful out of three or even a dozen doesn't make someone exceptional. Because so few people with interest in space have "only" a few hundred million, we can't really say if it's actually his talen
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by TFYS 2y ago
The number of people that have the capital and connections required to even attempt such things is very small, so it's not necessarily Musk's abilities that made those things happen, just the combination of having the power to all
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by TFYS 2y ago
It's because of competition that we are in this situation. When the economic system and relationships between countries are based on competition, it's nearly impossible to avoid these races to the bottom. We need more systems base
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by TFYS 2y ago
> deported a few thousand illegal immigrants who are criminals and rapists As well as thousands who are normal hard-working people. > taken back Panama Canal from Chinese dictatorship By using threats of force like a dictatorship. &gt
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by TFYS 2y ago
Unless you think centralization of power is a good thing, you're wrong. Things can too easily go wrong when the word of one man, however talented and wise, is louder than the voice of millions of people.

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