explodicle
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 2 hours ago:
Yeah but that’s most people who don’t even leave the house and play guitar too
- Comment on outsmarted 14 hours ago:
I’ve walked away from deals like that out of spite, just to see the look on their entitled faces. Fuck your $20 I’ll just donate it.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 15 hours ago:
Are we comparing influential voluntary organizations to powerless ethnic groups? Or is this a poor white men post?
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 17 hours ago:
If they don’t speak up and set the record straight, then “Christianity” and Christianity will be one in the same.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 18 hours ago:
I like those guys. Our existence is too short to waste it worrying about how cool people will think we are, and they’re ironically making the most of theirs. They’re out there having fun playing music.
- Comment on The house always wins 1 week ago:
To be fair those guys are not exactly crying right now.
- Comment on The house always wins 1 week ago:
Let’s call it “Prosperity”!
- Comment on The house always wins 1 week ago:
In typical fashion, Henry George wasn’t even invited.
- Comment on Booty shorts 1 week ago:
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
everyone below the owner is incentivised to help the owner increase productivity since the owner ultimately decides if they are fired or get raises and bonuses
I’m addressing this claim here. If increased productivity doesn’t increase compensation, then there’s no incentive to help the owner increase productivity. This year in particular we saw a lot of layoffs by profitable businesses! The productivity increases we have seen can be more easily attributed to technological advancement than increasingly motivated employees.
Imagine how much more productive we’d be if everyone actually had any reason to give a shit about their company. Because most of us certainly do not.
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
You’re describing the doorman fallacy and it’s part of why cooperatives outlast traditional businesses. That elevator operator understood the whole company and was willing to gradually shift to new responsibilities.
In the past generation we’ve seen productivity skyrocket while compensation hasn’t.
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So there’s little to no incentive to increase productivity. You’ll get paid more by switching jobs every few years than you will by putting in hard work for the company. We’re “alienated” from the results of our labor - someone else gets the gains while our slice keeps getting thinner. The whole point of socialism is to address that. - Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t workers owning the factors of production reduce negative externalities by introducing democratic voting into the decision-making process? When there’s no voting, and simply one guy owning the business, then he’s got every incentive to push his costs onto everyone else. If he’s bribed to act against our interests, then there’s no mechanism to remove him from power.
Have there been any successful examples of markets solving externalities on their own? Like coasian solutions in the wild? The best examples I can think of are banning leaded gasoline and CFCs. And the worst examples of things that aren’t happening (like climate targets) are because the people actually in charge don’t care if billions of poors die.
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
How do externalities turn communist revolutions into authoritarian regimes?
- Comment on The horse knows the way home 1 week ago:
Slop of slop from slop!
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
That’s the bad long-term decisions I’m talking about. They are currently directing the economy to end the world.
- Comment on Language barrier 1 week ago:
They said evade
- Comment on It's about the *option* 1 week ago:
Well you just got me to listen to a guy rant in his basement bar for 25 minutes
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
The people just getting paid just for owning something don’t seem to be contributing anything useful, and they’re using that wealth to make bad long-term decisions on our behalf. We can’t fix all the other stuff without the power to do so.
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
That explains why our economy is so shaken today!
This level of inflation amounts to 1.2% per year compounded, a relatively low inflation rate for modern-day standards, but rather high given the monetary policy in place in the 16th century.
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
owning a piece of a factory or a company they work at also does not directly change the standard of living. Reducing the fraction of the factory output that goes to the owners instead of the workers could.
Would workers owning the company not reduce this fraction to zero?
- Comment on Just animal noises 2 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely. I can’t imagine throwing solid turds in the washing machine.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just pop them in the air fryer for a minute
- Comment on Just animal noises 2 weeks ago:
They might have a baby. Once they get older, it’s a lot easier to involve the kid in your favorite sports. (For me it’s cycling)
- Comment on Just animal noises 2 weeks ago:
I’d highly recommend cloth diapers but those do increase the load count. And if you’ve got a kid it’s harder to efficiently do more loads in a single day.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
Hey now his brother has never been more alive.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 2 weeks ago:
They already took that risk on January 6th. The main splinters are the liberal owners and the fascist usurpers.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
Only fuck people who make an expensive signal like Jay Gatsby.
- Comment on **QUIT** / **RETURN TO GAME** 3 weeks ago:
I played so much Skyrim while bouncing my kids to sleep that now they want to play it.
- Comment on Met gala 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
How many of the people who didn’t vote were leftists not voting on principle?
