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- Comment on Minecraft streamer completes 14-year journey walking to the Far Lands 1 day ago:
Wooooot, Kurt did it? Straight to Youtube then!
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 days ago:
I.e. the TV channel Arte, which is a cooperation of French and German state media has a multipart documentary called Work, Salary, Profit that touches on a lot of fundamentals.
Of course there is always the option just to straight up read the original works by Marx, Smith and so on, but they are not for the feint of heart.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 days ago:
Well, to me that sounds a little like you prefer the term swimming over being called a swimmer.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 days ago:
Well, if you assume the farmer excludes others from using the means of production i.e. the fields, then yes you can argue that they are acting as capitalist. But you have to make the distinction between private and personal ownership: Private ownership of the land and personal ownership of the produce. The former is what communists reject. The latter is fine in their books.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
It would certainly help a lot if you could tone down your condescending attitude a little.
I fail to see where anything you write is an actual argument against my distinction between different forms of working with the means to produce something. Yes, I’ve misread your vendor as a farmer, but that’s not a reason to go ad hominem.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
All companies work that way, or they risk to fail. The maximization of profit stems from the need to stay competitive. If your competitor can produce the same amount of goods for a lower price, you won’t be able to sell yours for a cost-covering price and therefore go bankrupt. Instead, you then have to find a way to be more efficient by investing in your business. To be able to invest, you have to have created profit. Once you have done that, your competitor has to do the same and the cycle starts anew. That’s the idea of modern capitalism.
By my reading you’re taking the use of the first term and then saying they are using the second term. I think this is called equivocation.
I am not sure what you mean by that. I tried to show that just because someone sells something, they are not necessarily a capitalist.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
I’m not sure why people always insist if money is involved that it’s capitalism. Money is an abstract form of trade. No one is suggesting that trade will cease to exists in a world without capitalism.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
What does a farmer having inputs have to do with my argument being removed from reality?
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
A farmer selling their produce is not necessarily a capitalist. A farmer toiling on their own field sells the fruit of their own labor, so to speak. One step up are what Marx calls “Little Masters”: They own and work their means of production, but sometimes have employees such as farmhands or apprentices (Think companies where the owner still works in the workshop). Actual capitalists are detached from the production process: They no longer work, but simply own the so-called means of production and exploit others by buying their labor force for less than their produced result is worth.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
300-400 miles isn’t happening unless maybe as a death march.
He-he, I guess you typed that before reading the wiki page.
- Comment on The Pokémon Company confirms that no, its imagery was not granted for use in disturbing US Department of Homeland Security video | Eurogamer 1 week ago:
You mean it works better when it comes to hurting my eyes?
- Comment on The Pokémon Company confirms that no, its imagery was not granted for use in disturbing US Department of Homeland Security video | Eurogamer 1 week ago:
May I offer you a higher quality version of this image in these trying times?
- Comment on Why does Lemmy output horribly invalid HTML? 1 week ago:
Which is a shame. Browser should be strict when rendering.
- Multiple IDs with the same name? Jail!
- Open tags? Jail!
- Invalid order of tags? Believe it or not: Jail!
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 3 weeks ago:
Then they look like a well groomed animal.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 4 weeks ago:
I’d say if they are solely an investment, then yes you are part of the problem. Because you expect a return on your investment and so inherently rent has to be increased to generate the necessary profits.
If you’d live in a house that has more room than you need and rent these out that’s fine in my book. But possession solely for profit is one of the main problems of our current economic system.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Whether assisted suicide is legal depends on entirely on your jurisdiction.
Over here in Germany, assisted suicide is still a highly delicate matter from a legal perspective. Actively assisting in a suicide is straight up illegal, and even passively by just providing the means is at best in a gray zone. Despite our highest court having overturned the outright ban on assisted suicide, our various governments since this ruling have failed to pass any legislation on the matter.
As @vk6flab@lemmy.radio pointed out, there are so-called Advanced Health Directives, which in essence contains information for medical personnel on what to do in case you can’t communicate your will clearly anymore. Which i.e. can include that you do not want to be feed artificially and instead only request to ease the pain till death.
I would like to be a nurse for at the least the next ten years to help people.
Are you a nurse already? If so, you probably have access to a lot more and less traumatizing options to pass on than asking someone to shoot you.
Anyhow, I highly sympathize with your situation and hope that you still have many good and joyful days ahead of you.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Pfff, those are rookie numbers. 1250 over here! 😉
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
ASML in the Netherlands.
Again I don’t understand your comment: The EU or rather specifically the Netherlands is the global market leader. How should they compete even more?
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
Oh, we can keep going, alright.
I guess you didn’t see the edit to my earlier comment: Monopolist on high-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment? Comes from a place that calls itself the “Low Lands”.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
Ok, how about that audio streaming service everyone uses nowadays?
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 1 month ago:
For us non-us-folks: What’s a 430 hearing?
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
Well, for example maybe ask youself which continent produced the first commercially available COVID vaccines?
Hint: Pfizer is a diatributor, not a developer.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
Yeaaaaaaah, maybe take it a little easier on the kool-aid in the future.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
I am not 100% sure how to tackle your comment:
Are you pro-monopolies or anti-regulations? Or maybe both?
Have the communication giants (AOL, Comcast, …) thought you nothing?
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
Because on multiple levels it is cheaper to comply than losing the cash from Japanese customers.
Firstly there is the hard cash that customers won’t be able to spend on the company’s product. That’s a big red flag for any current and future investors who want every last drop squeezed into their dividends. Getting less because of costs related to compliance is just regular business in the end. Getting nothing out of spite? No, sir!
Also, trust is a resource as well: Who in their right mind would buy another product from a company that might turn off their products again in the future? This circles back to the previous argument: Less sales, less dividends, unhappy shareholders.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 2 months ago:
Are there even any natural hydrogen deposits on earth?
Every plan for green hydrogen I’ve seen so far relies splitting water via electrolysis.
- Comment on Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry 2 months ago:
We might want to stop mining new copper before the people in this region run out of water, though?
Because knowing companies they will not stop on their own.
- Comment on Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry 2 months ago:
Somewhat unironic
This:There is lots of copper (and other materials) rotting in our waste dumps. But as long as mining new ore is cheaper than recycling, tariffs or taxes are one way to stir the industry the right way.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 3 months ago:
What’s the movie/short story called again?
- Comment on How do I easily create gif- or video-memes? 4 months ago:
I use imgflip.com
