komali2

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by komali2 4mo ago
In my experience, productivity effects on salary is a rounding error. There are only two significant contributing factors for salary: 1. Your home address and 2. Your visa status Productivity might get you a 5k raise more over your colleagu
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by komali2 4mo ago
> The economic surplus from that increase in productivity accrued to everyone in society, not just the wealthy. Sure, a poor man with two dollars is richer than a poor man with one dollar. And yet the man handing out the dollars had 100$
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by komali2 4mo ago
Right, exactly, there's no good guys under capitalism, that's why you need industry wide labor unions moreso than within a single company. You could have a straight up communist for a boss that completely shares all profits, but i
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by komali2 4mo ago
We can never know for sure if this is or isn't the case, so our only hope for stuff we can be confident isn't this way is with foss / self host able solutions
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by komali2 4mo ago
Ok, I don't necessarily disagree, but it is thus living your values, which at the very least increases ones self confidence and self perception of status. Whether one thinks that improves one's status in the eyes of others imo dep
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by komali2 4mo ago
Your edit is comparing opposites, basically making the ops point for them. You work at google for money. Money is high status under capitalism. You work at Wikipedia for status in the traditional sense - you trade capitalist status (the sal
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by komali2 4mo ago
As others have said, that's basically anarchism, except for this bit: > It is a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they
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by komali2 4mo ago
What is inducing, or what is unfair? I understand that liberals (actual definition, not American) may feel that a good rigid analysis would determine that land ownership is fine so long as we can solve the boy's club problem of wealth
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by komali2 5mo ago
Yes, subset. See, the other subset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276310
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by komali2 5mo ago
Seems like chicken and egg. Buyers buy what's for sale, I feel like "the consumer" and "the market" are blamed for decisions made by people within these companies. We treat these people as forces of nature: "if
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by komali2 5mo ago
It doesn't matter if it's ugly, it doesn't matter that the cyber truck is ugly, it doesn't matter if either are good cars. I spotted probably the only cybertruck in Taiwan the other day. It was waiting to turn on a busy
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by komali2 5mo ago
> But, to your other point, I think human greed is innate. I can't think of evidence that would suggest that greed is somehow cultural or learned. Boil the system down to the lowest common denominator, you find greed. Scale it up: g
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by komali2 5mo ago
I'm not particularly interested in comparing more or less bad at that scale, especially because then we need to start asking really gross questions like "is the great leap forward more worse than the Atlantic slave trade because i
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by komali2 5mo ago
If a landlord owns 500 homes and tenants pay off the mortgage, maintain the place, and generate the income stream, who is really taking from whom? "Seizing" kind of sounds like theft. If McDonald's employees at one shop in Pa
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by komali2 5mo ago
I really like this comment, you are outlining exactly the sort of things that our society has convinced us are ground state truths, that are actually just capitalist norms enforced by the State. I really think you'd enjoy Peter Gelderl
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by komali2 5mo ago
Yes! I've felt exactly the same. Everything people have taken issue with - "plagiarism," concentration of wealth and power, termination of jobs, environmental harm to feed data centers, land being wasted on new datacenters, r
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by komali2 5mo ago
It sounds like Communism, Capitalism, and Fascism are all very bad, then. Maybe we can try something else? Do you have any ideas?
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by komali2 5mo ago
Well, in that case, my "how" has always been along anarchistic lines: establishing parallel forms of resource distribution, establishing habits and communities of mutual aid, and in doing so, delegitimizing and rendering obsolete
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by komali2 5mo ago
There's been plenty of examples of workers seizing the means of production and establishing sustained non-capitalist organization (State or otherwise). We have any number of strategies to choose from: The PRC, Soviet Union, Syndicalize
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by komali2 5mo ago
What specific horrible evils do you mean? And how do you attribute them to, specifically, organizing an economy along communistic lines? I ask because if we can take a country with a communist economy, or striving for one, and blame all its
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by komali2 5mo ago
Right, I agree, but the person I'm replying to said > How long will the white man be blamed So, they seem to think it has to do with race. Which smells very illogical to me.
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by komali2 5mo ago
Yeah np, I go into the writing and journaling here https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/in-defense-of-pen-and-paper/ And more detail about the daily reflection activity here: https://blog.calebjay.com/p
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by komali2 5mo ago
You've used this reply twice now. Now it's your turn, comrade. Share your effective revolutionary strategy in more detail than "collective action." I've posted about mine here and there on this forum, it's a pe
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by komali2 5mo ago
> Only collective action has the potential to do that at this stage. Yes in terms of surviving the full shit storm, and yes in terms of deriving security and comfort from community, but the things you mentioned are all valid steps on a p
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by komali2 5mo ago
> Who are we to say what is the right or wrong thing to focus on? Just observers pointing out that her stated goal was "to write more." If she uses the writerdeck as-is for a couple years, then, she was one of those rare people
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by komali2 5mo ago
Woah, nobody was talking about race here, why are you suddenly bringing it up? Oh, interesting, because you're treating time and ethnicity, as the only factors in economic development. If you take a country full of Ugandans, and a coun
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by komali2 5mo ago
Can you please expand what you mean? It's not clear how money would have solved this problem better.
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by komali2 5mo ago
We have a couple co-op members in Uganda and their billing addresses are always distinct. Along the lines of "Behind the Gas Station, SomeCity, Uganda." They're also extraordinarily good engineers so idk wtf is going on in Ug
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by komali2 5mo ago
> Gas stations and airplanes Gas stations, not sure, but someone the other day here suggested that airlines would be operating at a loss if they didn't have financializstion gimmicks like that. Also, this current system selects for
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by komali2 5mo ago
Any thoughts on reticulum? https://reticulum.network/ I've been thinking of building out a network of nodes in Taipei. Chatting with people this weekend at g0v summit about it. There's many reasons in Taiwan we co

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