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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Democracy isn’t the problem; it’s the money in politics, which is an intended effect of capitalism.
Capitalism is the problem.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
You can sub for basically any cream of blank. Just think of something that goes well with green beans.
- Comment on proof 3 weeks ago:
How long do you guys think it’s going to be before Andrew Tate is caught in a massive gay orgy?
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 4 weeks ago:
More generally, the founders wrote the constitution as if every leader will act in good faith. That has proven to be a bad idea, but also how do you even account for that? Their idea was a system of checks and balances, but that failed to account for when one party has control over every branch, and for when one branch goes rogue and starts ignoring the other two branches, as we are seeing now with the executive.
IMO, limiting power (money in the case of a capitalistic society) is the only way. The founders had the right idea with the limitation of power, but they didn’t take that idea to the economic side of things. Force all corporations to be worker owned coops and have a hard wealth cap of $50 million by taxing anything over at a rate of 100%.
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 4 weeks ago:
It is, but… you know.
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 4 weeks ago:
After the War on Terror was declared, it meant that the executive branch could essentially go to war with any country if they call them terrorists without former approval from Congress.
- Comment on Merry weekend yall 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like some kind of addiction, possibly?
I’m not sure, but I’ll think about it while I heat up my dab rig to take some massive fat dabs so I can smoke a joint while loading a bowl.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 4 weeks ago:
It’s mainly a mix of economic frusteration and a divide and conquor strategy by the rich in order to have the masses blame immigrants and people of other races/religions/genders for all of their problems instead of blaming the elite class and capitalism.
There is another angle, though, and that’s sexual frusteration. When a teenage male has issues getting laid and they look online for some kind of support, they find people like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson who tells them that men who “get laid” are “alphas” or whatever and that women should be treated as subhuman or as slaves. These incels have likely never actually attempted to make friends with any women outside of a sexual context, because if they did, they would learn that women are the same as them, even when it comes to their struggles (even pertaining to dating/sexual frustrations).
I think the latter reason sparked the fire that made the first truely possible on a scale that we haven’t seen in our lifetimes.
- Comment on NewPipe was failing me today, so I reverted back to the YouTube app. After the first ad (20 seconds), the app gave me a permanent blur. 5 weeks ago:
Yes. PipePipe is a fork of NewPipe.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been a Linux user for over a decade. Do you just not know that Proton and WINE exist?
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 month ago:
They just have that sticker for show. I doubt a single one of them ever read the constitution.
- Comment on It's just a Planck bro 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 1 month ago:
Making money is still the goal here, but this would be combined with a strong social welfare program that makes all basic human needs (housing, food, utilities, internet, etc.) available to everyone, so fear of failure is vastly reduced.
As for the motivation to create a startup, there could be a few different cases, such as only having large businesses (determined by either employee count or total annual profit or revenue) be impacted by that regulation that forces all businesses to be worker-owned.
Another reason could simply be wanting to create something new for the betterment of humanity. If all basic human needs are met, then the profit motive, while not going away entirely, is greatly reduced, as the need for survival is already met, so more experimentation with different ideas can happen with the fear of failure being greatly reduced, as it would be simple to restart from scratch with a strong safety net.
You’re an artist, but you’re not popular and you don’t make money off your work? Cool, you can do that full time.
You’re wanting to open a (non-chain/franchised) corner store with 5 well-paid employees? Go for it.
Your business expanded to over 50 employees, or makes more than $10 million in annual profit (completely arbitrary numbers here)? Now your business gets equally split up amongst the workers. The stock market in this situation would no longer exist, where external parties can both gamble on a company and influence the direction of that company, usually in favor of short term gain. When employees own the business, they tend to favor long term sustainability and stability, as that is what most people are seeking for themselves.
There should also be a hard cap on wealth, as nobody could ever possibly need more than $50 million for their entire life (again, arbitrary number). If wealth had a hard cap, that would also reduce incentive to constantly try to seize more power in any field (wouldn’t limit it entirely, but I don’t think anything can)
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 1 month ago:
Yeah, I agree with that. Mass centralization is bad regardless of the situation IMO. We need collaboration instead.
I’m personally a fan of Prof Wolff’s idea to force all corporations to surrender ownership to their workers, converting them into worker-owned coops. This would largely mitigate the ability for extreme wealth concentration to happen to begin with, especially if combined with other wealth-limiting regulations.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 1 month ago:
No, because we live in a global society where if you don’t participate in global trade (especially with the USA in the past couple hundred years), your country will fail.
The USA has played a massive part in making communist experiments fail, most notibly the USSR.
The closest thing that the western world has is the nordic countries’ social democracy, which is still capitalist by nature. They only implemented it, though due to communism being literally right around the corner (USSR)
- Comment on To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Can we all agree on THIS 2 months ago:
I’m American, and not once have I had that experience.
Now the bills and dealing with insurance on the other hand…
- Comment on In another universe, a better place stands here. 2 months ago:
Work place free drug
- Comment on Just in case anyone needs to read the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual for any reason 2 months ago:
Wow, that formatting is so much better. The Archive.org one used OCR, and it wasn’t very good.
- Just in case anyone needs to read the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual for any reasonarchive.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 9 comments
- Comment on Zelder 2 months ago:
He was also created out of emptiness
- Comment on Anon fixes Super Mario Bros 2 months ago:
I’m just imagining a metroid coming down to suck the life out of Bowser
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Romeo and Juliet laws are a thing specifically to prevent this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People are scared to vote for them because of our FPTP voting system.
- Comment on Fyi... Hold shift to run. 2 months ago:
Press Space to say “Apple”
- Comment on If a criminal says a cop planted drugs or whatever on them why don't they ask for a finger print test? And vice versa a cop could also request it to clear up everything? 2 months ago:
What do you call people from the US of A? Americans or United Statesians?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s possible to have an idiology and at the same time disagree with other people with that idiology.
Leftists especially are famous for disagreeing with each other.
I’m a socialist, but I don’t think mass centralization of power will ever lead to a good outcome. I believe in Richard Wolff’s ideology, which involves forcing corporations to be worker-owned cooperatives.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 2 months ago:
Chrono Trigger (Probably the best JRPG ever made)
Terranigma (Very philisophical action RPG that also happens to be a lot of fun)
Silent Hill (The vibes alone make this one, but it also has a great story)
DOOM (This one should be obvious)
Majora’s Mask (An emotional powerhouse of a game)
All GOAT, but all for different reasons.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 2 months ago:
I’d argue that hating concepts can lead to productive societal growth, and could even lead to personal growth depending on what is hated.
For example, I hate capitalism, corruption, greed etc., which led me to learn more about alternatives that I would have not learned about otherwise. This could also go both ways, though, since hate for the exact same things have also led people down a fascist road, as human nature makes it so that we always want an enemy to blame. Whether that enemy is the ultra-wealthy or whether it’s the common man (ex: trans people, women, immigrants, etc.) is largely dictated by the media they consume and the people they surround themselves with.
Mob mentality is alive and well, and it’s up to all of us (as non-billionaires) to focus that energy in the correct places. Billionaires are the ones who started the culture war and keep feeding it, since that distracts normal people away from themselves, since they know that if they didn’t give the masses a group to hate (the common man), that they would find their own group to hate (billiomaires)
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
I don’t even sniff them; I just remember how they taste/smell, and then I end up adding vanilla extract to savoury dishes and it tastes amazing