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Overshoot2648 ,

I prefer socialist libertarian.

Overshoot2648 ,

And Canada. I hate that map of the US and Burma. The US uses metric as it is part of customary units anyway. I also wish metric was base 12 or 16.

Overshoot2648 ,

I know people that work at an electric consumer cooperatives that are the same way. Nothing says capitalism more than communal ownership I guess. :/

Overshoot2648 ,

I just a Mutualist who wants worker consumer cooperatives and housing cooperatives to be the only way to form businesses. Unless someone has a direct stake in the firm, they shouldn't be able to benefit from it. No rent seeking, no venture capital, no bureaucracy.

Overshoot2648 ,

The problem with the word woke is that it was specifically about racial inequality and then the right made it synonymous with everything they hate about lgbtq people. White Christian Nationalism is the real mind virus.

Overshoot2648 ,

As a Mutualist, while there are a few things that could be better centralized, I'm in favor of a full worker consumer cooperative economy. Housing, groceries, and, utilities all work better as cooperatives, but capitalist have enough wealth to often push cooperatives out in other markets.

Overshoot2648 ,

There's also a middle ground between consumer cooperatives which are more on the communal side and worker cooperatives that are more on the libertarian socialist side with Worker Consumer Cooperatives that align both kinds of stakeholders with ownership and management reducing exploitation on both ends.

Overshoot2648 ,

It's not linear. Anarchist or Libertarian Socialist systems like Syndicalism, Mutualism, Georgism, and Distributism are just as Socialist as Marxism in that they prevent the exploitation of capital accumulation, but they favor direct stakeholder ownership of firms in place of a state or other more communal systems that create an inherent hierarchy of power.

Overshoot2648 ,

Yeah, but there is the authoritarian state owned housing way and the anarchist housing cooperative way. Political science isn't linear.

Overshoot2648 ,

You just described a housing cooperative. This form of collective ownership aligns owner and renter/home owner stakeholders as the same person and is a special form of consumer cooperative. Housing cooperatives are especially prevalent in the nordic countries. They keep prices down as they aren't owned by shareholders who want continuous profit. The problem with this style of firm is that they tend to dissolve after the tenets collectively pay off the property and seek to sell rather than maintain or expand the cöop. This occured after world war 2 in France as a bunch of post war building were quickly built and the coops that built them were dissolved.

Overshoot2648 ,

You must wash your hands often.

Overshoot2648 ,

Damn you Chrome team!

Overshoot2648 ,

It's funny. I work with a bunch of righteimg guys a an energy cooperative which is pretty much light communism as it is collectively owned by the consumers without the ability for capital accumulation.

Overshoot2648 ,

Yeah, it's annoying to talk to some self described communists. There was one guy who said consumer cooperatives were capitalist despite the fact that they are communally owned, don't allow for capital accumulation, and are literally a form of organization Marx endorsed, but the guy I was arguing told me I needed to do more reading. Consumer cooperatives are a little more on the Anarchist side close to worker cooperatives, but they are most definitely socialist.

Overshoot2648 ,

There are extensions that will download any media you want as long as it is in the source. There's a double left click to save an image one that is very useful.

Overshoot2648 ,

Even better; turn them into worker cooperatives!

Overshoot2648 ,

I would specifically want the Mutualist kind, not the Marxist one. Direct stakeholder ownership helps keep things from being too bureaucratic and prevents a top-down power grabs.

Overshoot2648 ,

pipewire is certainly much better than pulseaudio tho.

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Overshoot2648 ,

Well their Ecotank printers are pretty popular and in every Walmart.

Overshoot2648 ,

This. Ecotank printers are great and even let you print non-standard inks like photo-resist.

Overshoot2648 ,

Crafts projects, often papercraft, handouts for presentations, custom stickers, often shipping labels, etc

Overshoot2648 ,

And Epson Ecotank

Overshoot2648 ,

This is why I prefer Epson Ecotank printers.

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