DreamlandLividity
@DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 2 weeks ago:
They are just unlisted. They are preserved.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
As a friend often says, “democracy isn’t perfect, but it’s the best thing we’ve got so far”, and I think the same goes for regulated capitalism, with working anti-trust and taxation.
Exactly. I agree. The most important thing is public participation, putting pressure on their leaders to keep the corruption low and well hidden. There are ways for people to hold their leaders accountable. The tragedy is when people are apathetic and don’t do so. When bribes can be received in the open and people just tolerate them calling them lobbying, then there is no hope keeping the system working for the people. The leaders will not stop from the goodness of their hearts.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
Except that is true with any social or economic system. You unregulate your president, good luck getting that back under control. You unregulate your communist party/planning committee, hello Stallin my old friend.
Humans who accumulate power in any system can corrupt said system. And every system has opportunities to accumulate power.
At least in capitalism it’s slower, giving people more time to react. Even now, the state of US capitalism seems easier to reverse than e.g. the dictatorship of Chinese communist party.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
What coup attempts are you talking about? Let’s try to focus on coups that were at least attempted or has any substantial evidence of being in the works.
I am not talking about coup attempts. I am exactly talking about lack of coup attempts in countries, where you would expect superpowers to start one if they could. But they can’t.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
There is no logic in their claim. It’s an absurd what if. Monarchies were unable to suppress democracies. It’s like saying “what if communism causes the sun to exploded”. That would be bad, but it’s not reality.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension skills. I never wrote anything like that.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
The problem isn’t political systems, it’s superpowers intervening
There can be more than one problem.
Please prove me wrong and tell me how e.g. the coup in Chile 1973 could have been prevented by decentralizing power.
A coup still inherently relies on there being internal forces willing to execute said coup. I don’t dare say being capitalist could have stopped this particular one, perhaps it couldn’t. It it is at least more resilient in general.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.
This whole thread is about communism always collapsing into authoritarianism so quickly it is not even ever “really implemented”.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
What is this bullshit argument? If a lightbulb stops working after 10 years, is it as useless as a lightbulb that breaks after 10 minutes?
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
Do I have to remind you that capitalistic democracies other than USA exist? Plenty of them work decently well. Certainly still far from perfect, but well enough to prove these issues can be overcome.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
Youre saying a political system can only work if there is not a single aspect that can be taken advantage of? Thats equivalent to every single person being controlled 100% in their actions.
I did not say anything even close to that. I am saying a political system can only work if it can’t be easily overturned. It has nothing to do with how much it controls people.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
My entire point is that political systems like democracies are not isolated from economic systems. Democracies fail when combined with communism, because all power is concentrated in the political apparatus.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
I don’t see how what you write relates to what I write other than what-aboutism directing attention to (non-fatal) issues of capitalism instead of addressing the fatal issues of communism.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
A political system is not some random piece of infrastructure, like a solar panel. It’s more comparable to a padlock. It’s entire point is to manage human nature. If all people were benevolent and willing to work for collective good on their own, we wouldn’t need political systems at all. Neither would we need padlocks. A padlock that can’t hinder an intruder is a bad padlock. A political system that can’t handle human nature (greed, lust for power) is a bad political system.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
Even if that’s true, so what? Immortality being impossible does not make the recipe from my example any more useful. You are just pointing out one possible reason why communism doesn’t work in reality. Still doesn’t work.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
You are missing an important point.
The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.
Yes. But what does that mean? If I have a recipe for potion of immortality, but anyone that drinks the resulting potion dies instead, it’s a bad recipe even if the promise of immortality sounds good.
If every time you have a communist revolution, it ends up being authoritarian, what does that say about the communist political system?
- Comment on Michael 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Michael 1 month ago:
Honestly, in a way, (fast) internet ruined gaming. When you had to buy a physical disks, there was no way to continuously monetize a game, studios had to make new good games. Back then, there were good games for phones as well, because most people did not have phone internet to enable microtransactions.
- Comment on Michael 1 month ago:
The Olympics shouldn’t exist as they are now in the first place.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
I did not even realize you could run games on these GPUs… It would still be hard to spend 5k on the rest of the PC without throwing money away on visuals and other performance unrelated stuff, but I guess you may be able to do it depending on what you still consider performance improvements…
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
I want a lot of things that I can’t have. They can want it, but the system doesn’t have to allow it or can discourage it.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
I don’t know in what context this parable is used in the book, but this does not explain the need for growth in reality. It does not even show why you would need growth in the parable. No matter how many chickens or how much wheat the village produces, there still wouldn’t be more tokens.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
Well, partially maybe. In the past, investors were happy with dividends instead of growth. There are extra factors making growth be preferable over dividends.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
I think your are confusing company growth and prices growing, mixing them together.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
no. You can pay interest out of your profits. And many businesses don’t have significant loans.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
There are many answers to this.
First, this is not a general capitalism thing. It is more the specific flavor we have.
The original idea of capital investment is that when you need investment for your company (e.g. to buy better machines, expand production, etc.) you let people invest (by buying shares) and then give them a portion of the profits gained from that investment (in the form of dividends).
However, most companies have figured out that if they don’t pay dividends but re-invest the money, shareholders are still happy because their shares get more valuable as the company grows and they get to grow the company, which is good for CEO paychecks.
There are also things like economies of scale (if you produce million units of something per year, it is almost always cheaper per unit than if you produce ten per year). So if you don’t grow, your competitor that does grow could sell cheaper than you and put you out of business.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 2 months ago:
Trepang2 still has you killing guards like a monster, but adds a fear mechanic to the enemies. Makes you really realize you are a monster.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
If this is really just 4th instance this year, then it would be significantly cheaper to just reimburse the ~120k then to do what you are suggesting.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
And I don’t get the mindset of large company should do things for free. Valve is using the 30% to run stem workshop, make games playable on steam, creating the steam framework for games, and more. If they invest massive effort into some analysis stuff, either they increases prices or cut something else they are doing.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
Well, I just disagree with you. They are a distribution company, not a security company. I don’t see this as their job and I am not willing to pay more for games to have some far from perfect behavior scanning.