Arctic_monkey
@Arctic_monkey@leminal.space
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 5 hours ago:
Euthanized by taxation can’t work. Even if you pull it off, the wealth simply leaves and reinvests in a less restrictive country. Capital flight. Race to the bottom.
Overcoming capital would mean the victims of capitalism—all of us—coordinating on the scale at which capital operates: the global scale. We can’t even agree at national scales.
Worse, capital owns the communications infrastructure and controls which messages get amplified and which dampened. They can actively manipulate our “common knowledge”, our sense of what everyone else takes for granted. They can, and do maneuver us into two mutually antagonistic factions, each convinced of their moral righteousness, their justified hatred of the other half of the population.
To actually defeat capital and institute a better, stable, fair system, we’d need to first reconcile with the arbitrary political faction we’ve been trained to hate. Then we’d have a shot at globally coordinating in a world where the five richest men in earth own media networks.
It’s a hard problem.
- Comment on Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems? 4 months ago:
How fast can this ship go? Depending on how far in time you go, you’ll need to spend a long time traveling through space to get to where Earth was…
- Comment on Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems? 4 months ago:
The Earth is traveling along an elliptical orbit around the sun, the sun is orbiting the Milky Way, the Milky Way is traveling along a curved trajectory. Why, if you kept your momentum, would you end up on Earth?
- Comment on 7 months ago:
The reclusiveness selection argument makes sense, but why intelligence? Brains are crazy metabolically expensive, and I can’t see why a smart reclusive spider would survive humans any better than a merely reclusive one.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 7 months ago:
I mean, the main sustainable feature of indigenous food systems is their small population size relative to the environment’s carrying capacity. Trying to feed a large city on hunted game would be far less sustainable than modern agriculture…
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 8 months ago:
Wait, how is “not equal to” a Nazi symbol?