you are communist because you revere mao
i am anticapitalist because we cannot advance socially in this framework
we are not the same
i am anticapitalist because we cannot advance socially in this framework
we are not the same
@icedquinn LibLeft vs AuthLeft flamewars in a nutshell.
@xianc78 well its a fun meme but i do think capitalism is generally bad.
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act i. somebody records audiobooks but they do it wrong so they need to record and also edit which means two people get jobs and the disabled person who needs the book has to pay out the ass
act ii. someone fixes it so quality is better and now the VA does the recording but the editor loses a job.
act iii. high quality offline text to speech so audiobooks now have no cost (other than power and compute) and the disabled person just pays normal book price
we would generally consider these acts to be incrementally better for society. but under capitalism these are actually "
no, bad." because your value as an existence is purely the amount of money you can swindle, which is actually reduced by helping the disabled person be independent.
this is a fucking stupid system.
act i. somebody records audiobooks but they do it wrong so they need to record and also edit which means two people get jobs and the disabled person who needs the book has to pay out the ass
act ii. someone fixes it so quality is better and now the VA does the recording but the editor loses a job.
act iii. high quality offline text to speech so audiobooks now have no cost (other than power and compute) and the disabled person just pays normal book price
we would generally consider these acts to be incrementally better for society. but under capitalism these are actually "
no, bad." because your value as an existence is purely the amount of money you can swindle, which is actually reduced by helping the disabled person be independent.this is a fucking stupid system.
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@icedquinn Well it's the best we got right now. Personally, I would love to have a P2P economy where the market is dominated by self-employed entrepreneurs, (which seems like what the agorists and left-rothbardians want) but I don't know if most people are entrepreneur material (it requires excellent social skills and a workaholic mentality).
@xianc78 an example of how much of a disaster shit like this is that if you were to make a drug that made sleep optional everyone would literally be forced to take it because there would be no way to remain competitive otherwise.
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>everyone would literally be forced to take it
Until someone genetically engineers sleep out of existence. Which would be a good thing because I hate that we have to go unconscious for a few hours.
"It requires to turn on gamer mode"
On the serious note, it doesn't really matter what method you choose, people will adapt and exploit it in any way that helps them. The best you can do is cut your losses and move on.
On the serious note, it doesn't really matter what method you choose, people will adapt and exploit it in any way that helps them. The best you can do is cut your losses and move on.
