Ontimp

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the link to the anarchist FAQ, seems very interesting, I’ll have a deeper look.

  That said, we know that society-scale capitalism has led to the rise of fascism because it has happened before and we can empirically observe it.

  We have no idea what e.g. society-scale anarchist economics would look like, how to implement it peacefully and sustainably in the real world and which pathologies or injustices might emerge as a result - because we have never observed it on a large scale (so we must be careful to not fall subject to the argument from ignorance fallacy here).

  So yea in theory it’s interesting and I’m always glad to see housing communes, community gardens and various kinds of collectives that people experiment with - But such experiments are always local and highly limited in scope. They certainly improve the quality of life for those involved, but imo the experiments of small groups of idealistic and altruistic people say little about the feasibility on a larger scale.

  Maybe the anarchist FAQ might be a good basis for our descendents to rebuild society once 95% have died in one apocalypse or another^^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well for the majority of time when we did not use money, communities were quite small and/or ressources so scarce that money lost it’s value, as people lose trust that you can actually exchange it for goods later on (e.g. during a famine the incremental value of food in monetary terms is astronomical). Money hence emerged first in situations where value needed to be conveyed over large distances, where punitive mechanisms of governance (i.e. someone more powerful than you puts you in a box or lobs off your hands) become ineffective - it emerged along the first trade routes, and means of control by distant power centers (such as in China).

  There are alternative systems for the distribution of scarce resources, but they ultimately require centralized governance bodies - this is where most communist states failed in practice. If something belongs to ‘everyone’, it belongs to the one with the biggest stick, usually the state; If something should be used for the common good, someone qualitatively needs to decide what that is.

  I can’t think of any alternative forms of resource distribution that don’t rely on a central decision making party.

  The key issue with money, and why it leads to the emergency of fascist ideology imo, is when money pools with a powerful class of people that or filthy rich, somehow ‘own’ entire organisations including the media, and then become politicians as well. Concentration of power is the actual evil here, not private ownership.

  So what should we change?

  • • Wealth tax and high inheritance tax ties directly to monetary redistribution mechanisms such as a basic income

  • 100% income tax above a certain level of income but lower or no takes in most income
  • Taxing of productivity (if elegantly possible)
  • No owning of land, just renting it from the state.
  • Price-based mechanisms to account for negative externalities such as greenhouse gasses
  • Limits to allowed pay disparities in companies
  • Company types that disincentive value extraction and financialization
  • Limits to stock buybacks
  • Limits to the complexity of financial products
  • etc.

  Long story short, what Social Market Economy was originally intended to do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people misunderstand the use of money. Money is just a point system we use to decentralize coordination and resource distribution questions.

  Only idiots would claim that it’s the only motivator for humans. But the more complicated and contentious resource distribution questions become, the more important money becomes as a system.

  In basically all the examples given here, the resource inputs in question are individuals personal time and expertise. They of course face opportunity cost considerations, but can ultimately decide to sacrifice their own time individually.

  Money and the desire to get more of it (in absence or other specific needs) is pretty much necessary to keep any society with more than 50 people or so running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck it, just paste your clipboard in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  kannst mal in der mittleren Schublade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annon punches a Nazi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and the other kid was just a spinless little asshole who needed to learn that irl actions have consequences.

  From how the rest of the interaction went I’m afraid that’s the opposite of what he learned after the police intervened

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How about someone makes this for real? The world needs screaming goat pillows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An oopsie occured⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, online service platforms have come up with so many odd and manipulated behavioural patterns they shove down their customers’ throat as long as it makes them money…

  If an A/B test actually showed that offering to pick up your food from a traffic accident site led to better customer satisfaction outcomes than just cancelling the order I seem them doing this 100%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no way they were the first vegans in 2016. There have been 100+ ascents per year for decades, should have been around 6000 in total as of 2016.

  Considering the mountain is in a part of the world where significant parts of the population are de-facto vegans without identifying as such, I highly doubt that no one among the 6k people before them was living on a plant based diet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhhh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fable 4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhhh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hyped for Divinity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you won’t need to wait long. The game already has 7600 reviews on Steam