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jorp ,

Unfortunately there is no double blind studied alternative to capitalism that demonstrates without a doubt that it's statistically significantly better than capitalism as a system so I'm sorry to tell you that your children deserve to die because you're too poor, hope that helps

jorp ,

We just have to let the capitalist experiment play out. When this world is destroyed whatever humans remain if any will start the next trial. Trust me, capitalism still has a fighting chance.

jorp ,

I feel like the effort to make such a repo and make it popular enough to be cloned and rehosted is a lot more effort than someone manually checking the results of an automated filter process.

The "effort economy" is hugely in favor of the mirroring side

jorp ,

Only you know the truth!

jorp ,

It's also still relatively easy to tinker with windows to remove things you don't like while still getting to use all of your software. Linux requires a lot of tinkering too but it's so that you can use your software in the first place. It's easier for me to tinker to eventually remove bloat and disable features I don't use than it is for me to have to tinker to use my software and features in the first place.

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Also don't go outside or let the Google car drive by your house or have email or throw documents in the trash

jorp ,

You are conflating communism with authoritarianism as is commonly done on purpose or by accident to invalidate it. Anarchists are also often Communists and they oppose democracy for its oppressive properties as compared to consensus building and free association, that's a critique of democracy from an even more libertarian perspective.

Socialists and Communists also believe in the democratization of the economy, so that a capitalist owner class doesn't get to dictate how our labor and resources are allocated.

If you truly believe in freedom, you might be interested in anarcho-communism or socialism. Liberal democracy isn't as free as you think.

jorp ,

Lol this maymay cracked me up good internet joke i hope u get many points

jorp ,

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

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Not theory, refutation of the bullshit that anarchism necessitates forced labor. I don't care what that poster thinks, I care that readers aren't misled.

jorp ,

Rich for Marxists to throw out "anarchism has never worked when tried" lol. (Also isn't true, see link).

But granted, maybe there's a more charitable interpretation of their comments.

jorp , (edited )

Those states, according to theory, are meant to be a transition TO communism, but of course many things can go wrong in that process, and we're kinda right back at the situation portrayed in the meme.

Despite my spat with the ML leftists in this thread, I see why the idea of a communist Vanguard state is appealing. I also see how a state which transforms into socialism or communism must be "authoritarian" in that it has to take away factories and land from those that keep it as capital, so that it can be shared. These states also had to contend with constant sabotage and aggression from the Liberal Democracies of the West who feared worker revolution coming to their own land.

Anarchists are a more idealistic bunch and generally strive to build parallel power structures and organizations of people and so try to construct a new order upwards. In practice it's hard to imagine that method being able to replace nation states, especially with similar external sabotage on top of the existing internal challenges of running an equal society. Dictatorships and blind supporters of authoritarian leaders are hard to best in terms of efficiency.

Both approaches seek to accomplish communism, anarchists want to have their dessert right away, Marxist-Leninists believe the wolf will take care of them just as soon as he's done eating his enemies.

There has never been a communist state, not as a cop-out, but because there is no state in communism by definition. These states claim that they're transitional towards communism.

jorp ,

I think that's a fair take and perhaps indicates you'd lean anarchist-left. Direct action, mutual aid, and forming parallel power structures are the exact political and social activities that are core to that philosophy. Not exclusively so, but anarchists emphasize that kind of thing over activities like voting or, I guess, awaiting revolution.

I have mixed feelings myself, that kind of natural transformation won't just be left alone to evolve, it'll be actively resisted by powerful political and global forces, the United States and its allies would not allow it, for example. So in that sense a powerful political organization manifesting as a new revolutionary state does seem more likely to work to me, similar to how feudalism and monarchy resisted liberalism and had to be resisted through war.

Funny enough a big reason there's animosity between leftists, especially between anarchists and Marxist-Leninists, is because anarchist experiments were sabotaged and anarchists were fought by "Communists" during the Spanish civil war even as they together fought against Fascists. You'd think a "communist vanguard state" with the goal of establishing communism would be supportive of autonomous anarchist collectives, but those leftists weren't under the thumb of the Soviet Union. I think this pretty clearly demonstrated that the USSR wasn't interested in anything but Empire.

jorp ,

had to recompile my audio drivers with headphone support just before thesis defense

jorp ,

What do we need ISPs competing on if the infrastructure is run by the government? They can't increase speeds, they can't increase service availability, they'll just be getting a profit margin on top of what the government is charging them to use the communications infrastructure. I'd rather just pay the government the pre-profit amount

jorp ,

The myth of capitalism is that it improves things for the consumer. It's very obvious that it only improves, at best, the next quarter's returns for the investor. Once that husk of a company stops "line going up," the money goes elsewhere and we repeat.

If the line can't go up through creation it'll go up through destruction.

jorp ,

Everyone that works for a company is poorer, every company is scraping by and making cuts, but executives are making more and more money

jorp ,

I'm so tired of this nonsense argument, is capitalism your God to which you give credit for every human accomplishment? How did capitalism help to raise the Russian serfs to the status of a world superpower? It didn't... How did capitalism help Russia get to space before the United States? How did capitalism help human life improve before the 16th century?

I wonder what you even think capitalism is. I wonder if you comprehend that technological advancement, markets, money, and trade aren't synonymous with it.

You love democracy but when it comes to matters of economic decisions you are bootlicking the petite dictators that control every aspect of your economic life. You are employed by people whose means of acquiring wealth is to skim off the top of what you're producing and steal it from you but you are too busy making eye contact while you suck them off that you don't see their hand in your pocket.

The world is burning and there's plastic in your balls because of capitalism, you are such a good submissive little peasant.

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Only Western manipulation please!

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Lol I hope that's a poor choice of words, maybe you MIGHT have a point if you specified the US government though even that isn't true https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

jorp ,

What's the connection between Uber and China, then? I thought it was somewhat common for tech companies to be unprofitable for very long periods of time backed only by capital, but it may be China. Has anyone looked into this? Does Xi know what I like to order on weekends? Why haven't we banned this yet

Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

jorp ,

We have different ideas of what the left is, I guess

jorp ,

It's less about individual developers writing bad code and more about whole inefficient frameworks gaining popularity because of ease of use or deployment

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I'd argue that's true in some cases, for example web apps might work well enough on modern device hardware but they'll never meet the performance of even mid-tier native apps

jorp ,

You both have good points. One interesting aspect is that this volunteer labor is actually contributing to what is making the product valuable in the first place.

You could volunteer to do QA for a software company, or volunteer to clean the floors at a bank, or volunteer to work on an assembly line... And we'd likely criticize those businesses for taking advantage of that labour if it were systemic and widespread.

On the other hand you have open source projects which are freely licensed for huge corporations to make tons of profit from, and all we expect is that they give something back (but we don't even hold them to that).

It's interesting to think about where moderation work sits among these.

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