komali2

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by komali2 8mo ago
Ever since the ICE stuff I've been desperate to find a way to not pay my taxes - even if it means donating 2, 3x, hell 4x my tax bill to somewhere else. Obviously it's basically impossible to do this (especially if your income is
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by komali2 8mo ago
It's a commoditized market so it doesn't hurt to try.
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Imo the more ethical thing is obstructionism. Twitter's takeover showed it's pretty easy to find True Believer sycophants to hire. Better to play the part while secretly finding ways to sabotage.
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Never try to convince someone of something they're paid to not believe.
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I think about this a lot re: Israel. I had a conversation once with an Israeli where he was convinced "everyone is racist," but we're all too woke to admit it or something, or have some belief that racism is wrong but work to
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by komali2 8mo ago
I recently met a guy that goes to these "San Francisco Freedom Club" parties. Check their website, it's basically just a lot of Capitalism Fans and megawealthies getting drunk somewhere fancy in SF. Anyway, he's an ultra
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The only shareholders in a co-op are the owners/operators ("employees"), or the owners/operators + customers (for example REI I believe). There's nobody seeking to extract value at the expense of the employees or th
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by komali2 8mo ago
> but I found that it is very hard to get something like that off the ground in present day Western Europe. Yes, agreed for the USA/Taiwan/Japan where we mostly operate. For us it's been understanding and leveraging the al
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by komali2 8mo ago
We're no mondragon but I founded a co-op in IT space a few years back and it surprised me how open to the vision the members and customers have been. I had assumed I'd have to lean more on the capitalistic values of being a co-op,
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by komali2 8mo ago
> you're entirely held hostage by the 51% Yes, we live in society. You're correct, society has in many ways enslaved you, mostly in ways you aren't aware. The language you speak, the values you hold, the way you see the wo
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by komali2 8mo ago
> I was given a warning because said proposal was (unknowingly) opposed to a Senior Director's vision, one they'd already presented to the customer prior to seeking my input and neglected to mention when I reached out. My timin
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by komali2 8mo ago
This is assuming doing A has any meaningful impact on B. Anyway in this situation it's less that YouTube is providing us a service and more, it's captured a treasure trove of our cultural output and sold it back to us. Siphoning b
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by komali2 8mo ago
Yes, but it's a classic story of what actually happened to the commons - they were fenced and sold to land "owners." Honestly, if you aren't taking full advantage within the constraints of the law of workarounds like thi
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by komali2 8mo ago
Mentioning again Neal Stephenson's book "Fall": this was the plot point that resulted in the effective annihilation of the internet within a year. Characters had to subscribe to custom filters and feeds to get anything repres
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by komali2 8mo ago
But I want to use AI to generate highly effective, targeted propaganda to convert you and your family into communists. (See: Cambridge Analytica) I'll do so by leveraging automation and agents to flood every feed you and your family vi
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by komali2 8mo ago
What's frustrating is our society hasn't grappled with how to deal with that kind of psychological attack. People or corporations will find an "edge" that gives them an unbelievable amount of control over someone, to the
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by komali2 8mo ago
> You can work for a different employer that extracts a different amount of value. Not necessarily as easily as you can vote for a different politician, especially since you're restricted by your ability to change locations (family,
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> If you want to discuss the economic system and the rich, that's an entirely different conversation. Discussing the working person's need to house those that aren't working? It's the same conversation. The only reaso
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by komali2 8mo ago
Someone built the road to your house. Someone built the road to that road, and the road to that road, and the only reason the grocery store nearest you exists is because of this network of roads and people living near these roads that makes
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by komali2 8mo ago
That's just an arbitrary separation. Both places benefit from the federal highway system that allows goods to be delivered across State lines. Both benefit from the maintenance of shipping lanes, the national power grid, the submarine
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> I didn’t really follow your argument about non-profits. I assumed that was an angle people were going for: charities and non profits rather than governments. I'm not convinced the artist fund happened because artists were good lob
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by komali2 8mo ago
> Do you not realize how completely selfish that is? It's completely out of touch with the whole dynamic of people working to produce goods, and other people just getting those goods without effort. The vast majority of our wealth i
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by komali2 8mo ago
Right, that's my point, unless you can work at a co-op, you have no say in how much value from your labor is extracted and given to someone else, and given the way society is designed, it's basically impossible to live without non
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by komali2 8mo ago
I admit, I went a bit through your post history, cause you're interesting, if unhinged. First off, you make me think of an awakened and fully actualized version of Luke Smith. So you're like, a hardcore American Libertarian? The n
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by komali2 8mo ago
State funding is socialism, I thought we weren't about that here? Anyway that's basically what this Ireland thing is about. SBA loans are given at the whim of a bank, who is looking for a very strong guarantee of return on investm
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by komali2 8mo ago
Ok, well that problem has just been solved already by Ireland. What's your argument to do it some other way?
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> How does the government solve this problem? The same way it solves all problems: poorly, yet better and more fairly than corporations do. > Why can’t a private organization replicate that? Private organizations are driven by profit
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by komali2 8mo ago
It's an interesting question, but it's too narrowly focused. Surely we can think of more risk-reward structures than just "founding engineer?" What about worker co-ops? Revenue sharing agreements? Profit sharing? Equity
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by komali2 8mo ago
I'm not sure why taking away money you could spend on goods or put into savings is ok when your boss does it, but not ok when the government does it. At least the government builds you a road in return.

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