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- 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. 3 hours ago:
Yes. PipePipe is a fork of NewPipe.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 6 days 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 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can we all agree on THIS 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
Work place free drug
- Comment on Just in case anyone needs to read the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual for any reason 4 weeks ago:
Wow, that formatting is so much better. The Archive.org one used OCR, and it wasn’t very good.
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- Comment on Zelder 4 weeks ago:
He was also created out of emptiness
- Comment on Anon fixes Super Mario Bros 4 weeks ago:
I’m just imagining a metroid coming down to suck the life out of Bowser
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Romeo and Juliet laws are a thing specifically to prevent this.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
People are scared to vote for them because of our FPTP voting system.
- Comment on Fyi... Hold shift to run. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
What do you call people from the US of A? Americans or United Statesians?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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
- Comment on Supreme Court to Hear New Affordable Care Act Case on Preventative Care: Lower courts ruled that a task force that determines which treatments must be covered at no cost had not been validly appointed 5 weeks ago:
They already don’t cover preventative care.
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 1 month ago:
Not exactly easy to stop a train, but yeah.
Granted, that’s also an issue with human conductors, though.
- Comment on My Plan for 2025 1 month ago:
Truth hurts
- Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now? 1 month ago:
We still exist, but you gotta look. Tech has gotten a lot more mainstream since the 90s.
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 1 month ago:
Shit, justice works.
- Comment on If landlords didn’t exist anymore, how would shared flats work? 2 months ago:
Well, you see, when rich people get richer, the wealth, like, trickles down or something.
- Comment on Meal prep 2 months ago:
How is that a downside?
- Comment on Screw you, Apple. 2 months ago:
Crazy that the packaging was in Japanese regardless of region.