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by acomar 4y ago
and if the state actor happens to be the US? which of these tech companies do you expect to look after you then?
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by acomar 4y ago
it's about control.
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by acomar 4y ago
I agree with you that it's an attempt to side-step the tendency of the rate of profit to fall but I'm not sure it's particularly well-understood by anyone involved. and even a cursory examination of the material basis for so-
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by acomar 4y ago
when people make things because they want to, they make things that other people actually want to use. when capital directs people to make things, they do so for the purpose of creating more capital. we pretend that "making money"
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by acomar 4y ago
> natural state of being, having to work to survive yes, the natural state of all human beings is to derive value for shareholders. the profit of our masters before all. it's just in our DNA. to live requires maintenance and upkeep
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by acomar 4y ago
you're using relative terms to justify an absolute judgement. those jobs can be literally better than 100% of all other jobs available in a particular market segment and it STILL doesn't qualify them as "good" jobs becau
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by acomar 4y ago
it's a synonym for "job", in most places. the repetition serves to reinforce the point: enforced waged labor is destructive to the person.
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by acomar 4y ago
the monetary cost is misleading. you can't take 4 billion dollars and use it to hire developers for a year and then expect something equivalent to the linux kernel after a year. money doesn't actually translate on its own into val
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by acomar 4y ago
it's hard to do (it requires a specific skillset), it requires capital investment (servers cost money), and you become fairly indiscoverable. these are surmountable problems given adequate money but without it, a major platform like et
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by acomar 5y ago
as pointed out in the parent comment that started this chain, politicians are captured by the same assholes who benefit from the system, as structured. if you change the politicians, they either buy or destroy their replacements. so if the
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by acomar 5y ago
so-called "left-wing elites" still favor privatization while public ownership is never in the conversation, so yes.
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by acomar 5y ago
from where does the donor class derive their wealth? they pay you a wage or collect rent, profiting either way. in all cases, they derive their wealth because they own the things that allow us to produce value. perhaps those things should b
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by acomar 5y ago
consider engaging with the content rather than the tone. you might learn something.
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by acomar 5y ago
judgements from the usual court system are enforced by the police, who are authorized to use force - i.e. violence - in the event of non-compliance. this is not a unique feature of the drug trade.
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by acomar 5y ago
we're going to have pograms over the next 5 years and we'll blame the people who fight back.
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by acomar 5y ago
because "trust us" has such a great track record.
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by acomar 5y ago
this is extremely not true. federal authorities can compel the bridge operators to log messages sent over the bridges and disclose them on receipt of a national security letter or other sealed warrant. this is just not the case right now -
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by acomar 5y ago
not to mention that we're speaking of colonists who intentionally set out to genocide the native population on a regular basis. and most were slavers, putting the lie to any talk of freedom. in the end, little mattered to them in that
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by acomar 5y ago
> It always blows my mind seeing the things people who work at google/fb are willing to "walk out" / "protest" over, and then these insidious things they're willing to just sit back and let happen. sym
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by acomar 5y ago
why the eff are you lot fighting each other? it's your managers putting the expectation on you that you can pick up the slack for your coworkers going home on time . who's really out of line here? the people going home to take ca
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by acomar 5y ago
> A blockchain is also a k-of-n trust model; it requires at least half of miners or proof of stake validators to be following the protocol, and if that assumption fails that often results in a "51% attack". So why is a blockcha
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by acomar 5y ago
the first truly revolutionary product
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by acomar 5y ago
> growthism any day now, the moral, upstanding, self-restrained capitalists will buck the profit motive and save us from the unsavory sorts who rule our world today.
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by acomar 5y ago
this isn't what a dogwhistle is. it's just explanation by analogy to a model presumed to be shared by the intended audience. a dogwhistle offers a surface meaning to the uninitiated that's anodyne but communicates a hidden, c
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by acomar 5y ago
I spent some time thinking about this last night and want to re-emphasize this question. I'm serious. I genuinely can't think of something I might miss out on. when my friends are doing something, they text me. when something is h
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by acomar 5y ago
what would I miss out on?
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by acomar 5y ago
a rebuild of Haskell that got rid of the dynamic exception system and put laziness/strictness in the type system as an effect is my dream.
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by acomar 5y ago
you've described wage slavery and class dynamics under capitalism. congratulations. your dystopia is already here.
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by acomar 5y ago
it's also remarkably intuitive. like I laughed and then realized that would be a fairly pleasant way to control the volume for anyone with decent vocal control.
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by acomar 5y ago
whomst among us doesn't love a vampire that mainlines the blood of teenagers?

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