Comment on $42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk

• Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reminder that this is still capitalism. Capitalism gave Elon Musk the wealth and power to destroy American democracy so the world’s most successful capitalist destroying democracy is capitalism in action.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which form of government does not have money?

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    • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Money does not equal capitalism. Money existed a thousand years before the invention of capitalism.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Exactly.

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    • within_epsilon@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

      • Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx

      I do have disdain for the phases laid out by Marx, but this slogan is wisdom.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ok. Which government was that?
        Not a hypothetical government, an actual functional government that exists

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