readyman

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by readyman 2y ago
Under capitalism, this is called theft.
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by readyman 2y ago
Exactly right. Financialized capitalism is essentially incapable of building big things or taking care of the big things that were built in the past.
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by readyman 2y ago
> If I harvest a random apple growing wild, that my labor alone. Nonsense. It takes a village to raise a child, and the agricultural knowledge to harvest anything stands on the shoulders of approximately all of human history.
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by readyman 2y ago
We live in a society. All our knowledge and labor is dependent on prior knowledge and labor of our neighbors and those who came before us, also known as our society .
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by readyman 2y ago
> a liberarian argument where nobody is entitled to the fruits of your labor except for you There simply is no fruit which is the product of one's labor, whether it be one person or one enterprise. Any honest analysis must start he
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by readyman 2y ago
That the author has risked their reputation on the claim. If you're doubting the author is legit, interrogate their professional associations with an internet search, relying on the domain name system. Nothing about any of this is new
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by readyman 2y ago
These things aren't violations. They're perfectly legal for a reason.
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by readyman 2y ago
> I will think on how to make this reporting as frictionless as possible for such cohorts. You have to be joking. Unionizing and a strong workers movement is the only thing that has ever moved the needle. The only exception might arguab
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by readyman 2y ago
"Inflation" is one thing. Rent prices and cost of living in a city with jobs is a very different thing. > please ask them to report every incident to the FTC, the Dept of Labor, and any other relevant state or federal regulator
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by readyman 2y ago
And so did inflation/COL, and petty fees have gone absolutely bonkers. My poor/artist friends tell me the most ridiculous stories these days. Broken rent payment portals, car repair extortion, wage theft, hidden fees just to acces
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by readyman 2y ago
> The current condition of the pedestrian remains unknown. Probably part of the settlement :(
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by readyman 2y ago
Long live trains and many more of them
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by readyman 2y ago
Source? France's investments in nuclear energy are very well known as being incomparably successful, both in terms of return on capital investment and emissions. There is literally nothing to compare it to because nothing comes close.
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by readyman 2y ago
Nonsense. A healthy person in a healthy society desires to be valued by their peers above everything else. Only in the absence of this belonging does one pursue the antisocial behaviors you describe. Capitalism is barbarism.
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by readyman 2y ago
Correct. The primary beneficiaries of conscription are the working class.
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by readyman 2y ago
Nonsense. PURPA was just more regulation, regardless of how it was sold. It had nothing to do with "markets being opened to competition". One can trace the downfall of nuclear in the US to the end of the New Deal coalition and the
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by readyman 2y ago
What is your point? Cost is not a problem when near-term profit is high, and nuclear energy has an unbeatable track record with long-term ROI. Saying "it's expensive" is meaningless nonsense. There is absolutely no excuse bes
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by readyman 2y ago
The so-called "market" isn't telling anybody anything here. The financiers are the only ones speaking and all they're saying is they can't turn as much profit in their own individual lifetimes. It is a total disrega
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by readyman 2y ago
This needs to be recognized as an indictment of our society. An inability to accomplish anything in a collective and intentional manner is only one of the many disasterous outcomes of the wretched individualism promoted by the neoliberal a
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by readyman 2y ago
Correction: Strikes did these all of these things and more, but mere unions never have. Strong unions (led by workers) leverage labor power for a better society. Weak unions (led by companies and bureaucrats) leverage hollow gestures an
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by readyman 2y ago
They wouldn't, because network effect, which is why there is no alternative.
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by readyman 2y ago
Given the lack of an alternative, should we instruct the human instinct of sharing in the pursuit of knowledge to sacrifice itself or accept the risk of exploitation? If your sorry platitude is what we have to show for it, capitalism must g
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by readyman 2y ago
> a persistent pattern of businesses thinking they are above the law In the aggregate, they absolutely are. Capital, not democracy, elects US politicians. Those politicians create, enact, and enforce the laws.
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by readyman 2y ago
Profit
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by readyman 2y ago
> I still chuckle at being congratulated on my command of English by a shop assistant in Naples (Florida). I just thanked them rather than pointing out that I am ... actually ... English! Naples in a nutshell. This story made my day.
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by readyman 2y ago
Or each edit forms a new "edit" node that new replies are then connected to. Regardless, the DAG can always be preserved somehow.
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by readyman 2y ago
The rich keep getting richer faster at the expense of everyone else.
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by readyman 2y ago
> systems that make it easier and safer for people to be decent would be good Systems that incentivise decency would be better. Capitalism is neither.
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by readyman 2y ago
The FDA serves many compromised purposes that, in sum, prioritize the interests of the capitalists who predominately control it. The same can be said for the entire US government.
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by readyman 2y ago
Capital will simply undermine the democracy again . It's literally that simple. Capitalism and democracy are fundamentally at odds.

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