pietrovismara

14 ms·

91.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
Can't trust the government to use my taxes well, I'd rather trust a handful of sociopathic individuals with an obsession for capital cumulation /s
92.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
Reminds me of Kintaro Oe in "Golden Boy". He learns to program on a fake laptop built with cardboard.
93.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
> But the results would be equally great like they were in Soviet Russia or Mao's China. That's your HUGE assumption. While I didn't make any assumption, you are making a big leap of faith here without anything to back it.
94.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
There's no reason to think a free market economy is the single best solution we could ever hope to stumble upon. We keep evolving, we will evolve out of the "free" market economy as well.
95.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
Allende tried something similar in Chile with project Cybersyn. Not AI yet but it shows how the economy could be centrally planned using technology. Shame that Pinochet's coup ended the experiment.
96.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
Have many smaller ones and aggregate them by yourself with RSS feeds.
97.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
> Nothing is stopping anyone from opening notepad and writing HTML with inline style, then using FileZilla to FTP/SCP that to a server (probably a VPS these days) somewhere, or publish it on GitHub/GitLab Pages Sure. Then try t
98.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
> Perhaps the President should focus on that? If his actual goal was to improve people's lives, perhaps...
99.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
That's assuming that revenue from MDN plus will go only to fund more premium content. I don't think that is true (maybe I missed something from their page?), which means they will always have the incentive to make more premium con
100.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
Well if nobody wants to work for you it means you are way off with the wages you offer. That's the market. You got to raise the wages, not complain that people are finally able to reject your wage slavery.
101.
by pietrovismara 5y ago
Have you ever thought that the problem could be with your wages, rather than with the UBI?
102.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
I don't get the downvotes. Thats exactly how it goes, how the US in the past retained the "first global power" trophy it now lost.
103.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
Based on how the US behaves generally, just sanction them to hell. You don't want to apply the global tax rate? Have fun finding liquidity when every financial institution denies you access. It worked in reducing socialist countries to
104.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
Never said so. Even tho, if big corps paid their fair share in taxes, instead of using foreign tax havens, it would be way easier to find the resources for a UBI.
105.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
Just a minimum living wage for everyone, so that people don't have to invent for themselves a failed career in entertainment, in order to escape unemployment/wage slavery.
106.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
Just check the IMF page on "Conditionality"[0]. Check the "Prior actions" sections and see "Elimination of price controls" there. Also see this video[1] about Vietnam, around halfway through it explains pretty
107.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> the owner then can chose to re-invest locally if they choose to Only at the conditions imposed by the IMF. Usually that means the state has to steer away from anything that could be profitable and focus only on what is not palatable to
108.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
That's what the west does all the time. Blackmail poor countries into selling all of their assets to foreign capital, just to gain access to foreign credit. See what's happening in Cuba. See what Vietnam had to do after the war wi
109.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> With lower safety/environmental standards, lower wages Well, no, thanks. I'd rather not be forced to enslave my people in order to compete with western capitalism.
110.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
When you have several users all brigading with the same propaganda (on the lines of "you always have a choice, ayn rand is my hero!") as if it was an undeniable truth, I have to face that. It's unavoidable, and not name calli
111.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
The struggle is still the same. Things have just gotten more politically correct, because now every employee could record your Pinkertons beating up people and share it with the whole world. Don't think things have changed for any othe
112.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> this kind of window-dressing might actually be harmful as it distracts from addressing the root cause The root cause can't be addressed by the same people who reap the benefits of this system, because it's so deep in its core
113.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
I fully agree that education is fundamental for everyone to have, but not simply to allow everyone to have a good job. Just because it would make society so much better for everyone. For this reason I'm also convinced that every single
114.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> They were needed when Pinkertons beat up people trying to open new stores in a company town, etc. BTW, Amazon is still using Pinkertons to repress unionization attempts[0]. Things haven't changed that much after all. - [0]: https
115.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
If it really is just a matter of the effort one puts into education, then answer this. If everyone studied with the same exact amount of effort, would we have a world without waitresses, warehouse workers, low wage jobs? Obviously not. This
116.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
No. This is a blatant lie that keeps being repeated without thought. The reason people work at amazon warehouses is because they don't have other choice. For many there simply are no other jobs that pay or treat you better.
117.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> Just get a better job from an employer that literally values you more. For most people your statement sounds like a joke. You can't "Just get a better job". Most people are stuck in their jobs, that's why they have
118.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> We are the ones who benefit from the shit salaries that musicians make Not really. We are just being paid enough so that we do not leave for somewhere else. The ones who really benefit are the shareholders. Coincidentally, the same peo
119.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> It makes me sad to time and time again learn that the low prices of services I love are unsustainable and instead subsidized by treating someone unfairly downstream. In general, price competitiveness on the market is based on some form
120.
by pietrovismara 6y ago
It would be the same if, when starting my commute, I knew that today there would be a much higher risk of hurting someone with my car. But then, if my car was defective and I knew about it and caused an accident, wouldn't that be crimi

More ›