Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it's been on my
mind and I want to share it with someone. In the 00's every new thing we heard
about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to
communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we
heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress. That lasted into
the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now
we're well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New
legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock
content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking
for. New ways to force ads. At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing
in the world. Now I don't know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don't look
forward to hearing news about it. It's sad, man. We've lost a lot. The mega
corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that
people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones,
and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an
insatiable desire for money. We're at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20
years of progress, I don't think most of us will like what the next era brings.
People value things. In capitalism, the ones who value them the most, and who are able to pay, get them.
If you disrupt this mechanism by allocating resources differently, you risk that resources are wasted. Of course you can use other allocations but is that a good idea?
Capitalism has many flaws, e. g. monopolies disrupt this mechanism, but it just has to be better than its competitors to survive.
You imagine taking over capitalism and allocating luxeries differently. I doubt that those luxeries will exist. If workers only want to work e.g. 8 hours per week, because socialism, the surplus will be gone.
If you can make those workers work more under socialism without a gun to their head, then you should be able to do so right now within the legal framework of a coop.
It should be easier because you only have to manage production processes without fighting a war.
Sidequestion: how does a member of the bourgeoisie without capital look like?
Cake is a present where everybody gets a slice because the cake was selected accordingly.
If only one person can get promoted, or an increased budget for wages is available, could that be resolved without managers, not just in theory but all over the world?
Yes, let’s also outsource the revolution.
Will China take over America? If not, why would China change the economic system in the West? Without the petrodollar, there should just be significantly less resources available.
Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries.
And yet China managed to survive. Of course there are external factors but it’s important to know which internal decisions could have led to success.
Processors, internet, renewable energy, etc. Maybe winning the space race prevented success in other areas?
Fuck it. That Ultra’s post history is a goldmine.
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You will have to bootstrap it.
People value things. In capitalism, the ones who value them the most, and who are able to pay, get them.
If you disrupt this mechanism by allocating resources differently, you risk that resources are wasted. Of course you can use other allocations but is that a good idea?
Capitalism has many flaws, e. g. monopolies disrupt this mechanism, but it just has to be better than its competitors to survive.
You imagine taking over capitalism and allocating luxeries differently. I doubt that those luxeries will exist. If workers only want to work e.g. 8 hours per week, because socialism, the surplus will be gone.
If you can make those workers work more under socialism without a gun to their head, then you should be able to do so right now within the legal framework of a coop.
It should be easier because you only have to manage production processes without fighting a war.
Sidequestion: how does a member of the bourgeoisie without capital look like?
Cake is a present where everybody gets a slice because the cake was selected accordingly.
If only one person can get promoted, or an increased budget for wages is available, could that be resolved without managers, not just in theory but all over the world?
Yes, let’s also outsource the revolution.
Will China take over America? If not, why would China change the economic system in the West? Without the petrodollar, there should just be significantly less resources available.
Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries.
And yet China managed to survive. Of course there are external factors but it’s important to know which internal decisions could have led to success.
Processors, internet, renewable energy, etc. Maybe winning the space race prevented success in other areas?