MnemonicBump
@MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Being Difficult 4 weeks ago:
You fools! We’ve all been living in a simulation written by Bonsai Buddy!!
- Comment on Wait....IS that what I meant?? 4 weeks ago:
Send me a screenshot.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
Fine. Sure. A few starting points since you asked in good faith:
For historical examples of non-market/cooperative organization, see Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons (1990), which documents real communities managing shared resources without privatization or central coercion. David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years also covers many societies that operated through reciprocity/obligation rather than modern monetary exchange.
I can point you to some great podcasts if you want.
For historical examples, Revolutionary Catalonia (1936–39) and numerous Indigenous communal systems demonstrate large-scale cooperative production/distribution outside traditional capitalist structures. See the previous Debt: the First 5000 years and just SO MUCH research. Maybe Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia would be a good place to look.
My library point wasn’t “libraries are a whole society,” but that they demonstrate distribution based on shared access/need rather than direct purchase can function effectively. Public institutions already allocate many goods/services this way.
As for undesirable labor, societies don’t need to choose between “profit motive” and “slavery.” Additional leisure, prestige, reduced hours, or enhanced benefits can incentivize difficult work just as effectively as wages. Automation can also reduce much of the repetitive labor currently done purely because it’s cheaper than innovating away the need for it.
I’m not claiming a moneyless society would be simple or easy—just that the idea humans can ONLY organize through profit incentives is historically and empirically false.
- Comment on Wait....IS that what I meant?? 4 weeks ago:
We did not just drop six nukes on Iran
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t cite sources because the literal decades and decades of refutations to your arguments already exist.
But I will leave you with this: Why do libraries work?
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
Why do you assume that we’d need correctional officers in a world without money?
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
On thee contrary, I don’t trust any medical profession that is in it for the money.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
Like, half of the jobs you listed would be automated out pretty quick in a world without money, out of the other ones, a few would be rendered obsolete without profit motive (pretty sure we can find something better for batteries than lithium, and why would you need someone scanning groceries if there was no money?). What’s left can be rotated out or done by lottery, and those doing the undesirable labor get to have more luxury items or whatever. It’s not hard to imagine, people have been doing it for centuries.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 5 weeks ago:
Brightline is commuter rail. We have a bunch of little trains connecting to close cities. What we don’t have more than one of is passenger rail, where you can hop on a train in Seattle and get off in New York.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 5 weeks ago:
Except for Amtrak that serves… Everything. There is no passenger tail service in the U.S. other than Amtrak.
- Comment on SlopOS 11 5 weeks ago:
Great! Thanks! You’ve just doomed us to get the Linux Saturn, which will be appreciated by some, but ultimately fail against SuperWindows and Windows 64. After that we’ll get something beautiful, the Linux Dreamcast, but it will be too little too late, as just a few months later, Apple releases the MacStation2, which most people buy because it has a DVD player built in, and the Linux Dreamcast kind of just dies… 25 years later, and Linux is making Linux Classics compilations and new games starring Tux for the WindowsSwitch2.
- Comment on FML 1 month ago:
- Comment on 11 year old girl telling Abraham Lincoln to grow beard so more people will vote for him (it actually worked) 1 month ago:
Why so many fingers?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
16 different Henrys?
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 month ago:
Selling stuff at cost is already selling stuff at a loss if you factor in labor and overhead. How long can you go losing money? Probably not as long as Walmart or Target or Amazon. That’s what they’re betting in.
Employing your exact strategy is how Amazon became one of the largest corporations on the planet. In fact, they still sell their entire Amazon Basics line at a loss for this reason.
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 1 month ago:
Not sure where you’re from, but in the U.S., at least, nooses have a specific historical and cultural meaning. It’s illegal to tie a noose with 13 or more coild in the u.s. for this reason, and it has nothing to do with suicide.
- Comment on Think the fuck again 1 month ago:
He certainly isn’t singing “Never going to give you up”
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 1 month ago:
Maybe then, you should consider where your hate is coming from, especially if the stuff you’re saying is word-for-word state propaganda.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 1 month ago:
The is Hasbara. Do is everything else that you’ve written in this thread and, looking at your post and comment history, it looks like the MAJORITY of what you type up on lemmy is Hasbara.
Sooo, and I’m pretty against fedjacketing people online, and find that it can be pretty dangerous. But I’m fairly confident you are working for Mossad.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 1 month ago:
You can simply take the side of innocent people here, you know?
This isn’t two sports teams going against each other. There are people okay with the mass killing of an entire people to further their own political and ideological goals, and there are those who are not. It really doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 1 month ago:
My brain can imagine the process of creating a path, wtf, that’s literally what I’m talking about. Just moving over to the right is what is written in the law in most places. Chill.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 1 month ago:
I’ve never been to New York, but as somebody born and raised in Southern California, lived in Portland, Or, and is currently living in Minnesota, I have never seen this. You always move over to the right. Immediately and without question. In California, Oregon, and Minnesota, at least, it’s the law, and you can be fined for not complying.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I have never seen a human, let alone a woman, behave like this.
This pretty much explains the rest of your comment.
- Comment on WHOLE MILK 2 months ago:
Umm… Source?
- Comment on Will they wake up before it's too late? 3 months ago:
I think, while Nazi comparisons are useful, it’s really important for people to understand that American Fascism is its own thing. Prior to the Nazis and Fascists coming to power, the U.S. was successfully managing an apartheid state and conducting mass sterilizations and popularizing the ideas of eugenics.
The U.S. was MASSIVELY influential on Nazi ideology, and American fascist really appreciated that and supported the Nazis in kind.
American Fascism has grown and developed out of unique American socio-economic conditions (manifest destiny, slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, militia movement, preppers, protestant work ethic, evangelicalism, etc.) independently from other flavors of fascism, and therefore doesn’t map 1:1 perfectly to any other type of fascism.
The fact that European varieties were actively suppressed for so long while the America variety was allowed to actively metastasize means that the kind of fascism that we’re dealing with today is a far more advanced form and it’s already off the map, so to speak.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 3 months ago:
You probably know this by now, but Bully is a remarkable tale of anti-bullying. You don’t play the one bullying others, you play the one who gets bullied.
- Comment on I WON THE LOTTERY! 3 months ago:
Pull tabs are HIGHLY regionally specific. If you’re not from the Midwest, give never seen them
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 months ago:
Those encyclopedia sets are worth their weight in gold. You shouldn’t expect digital services to always be around, you know?
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 4 months ago:
I’ve been doing it since '01 (pronounced “Oh-Won”). I thought everyone else has been too?
