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deaf_fish

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  • I don't disagree with that. Why leave that to the market which doesn't optimize for anything other than more money and whos actions are opaque? Happy, healthy, and productive societies cost money, money that can be spent elsewhere. Slavery is efficient and profitable.

    If some organization is going to have the power to make or break me, I want them to be transparent and democratic. Not a rich person who has never worked in their life trying to make more money using whatever means they can get away with.

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  • What? Yes, the environment can tell because there would be less pollution. The motivations are different. Do you think worker controlled industries would use the same tactics to over produce and polute the areas the workers live in? No one would benefit from that.

    I'm not saying we would reach zero pollution but there would be a lot less pollution.

    I have no problem with running water and electricity, most reasonable socialist would agree.

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  • American healthcare is capitalist. It's insurance companies and for profit hospitals. That's why it's bad. Healthcare is an inelastic demand.

    China isn't a Democratic State. I'm not arguing that just having one guy handling all the economic planning is a good idea.

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  • There's a difference between industrialization for people and trade versus industrialization for money and power. One helps everyone, The other only helps capitalists.

    I wouldn't necessarily look at China and USSR and say they are a good alternative. I prefer a more democratic socialism. My problem with capitalism is specifically the lack of choice of the people. We spend 8 out of 12 hours on average working for a company that we don't get a vote in.

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  • Yeah, so we take AI out of companies who only want to make money even if it hurts people and give it to a democratic elected government which will use it to help people or they will be voted out

    We can choose a less shitty power structure if we want.

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  • So we can have solar and nuclear oligarchs instead of oil oligarchs. Yeah, that would be slightly better

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  • How old are you? Did you go through COVID? Capitalism doesn't do disasters well at all. Every cost is minimized. So emergency supplies go unmaintained. If it doesn't help the stock price annually it doesn't get done.

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  • Industrialization to make money is encouraged by capitalism. Why do you think big oil was lying about global warming? It's not a few bad apples it is a systemic drive to make more money even if it hurts people or the planet.

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  • Oh, we can use it. We can use it to replace your job and make our boss more money. We just think that is bad.

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  • Yes, but AI porn, which is really bad, is actually a small problem compared to the other uses of AI under capitalism.

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  • Yes. I wonder what the outcomes of centering the soldiers gult is?

    Do we want the solution to be that soldiers have to consider every order given within the historical context of the time to decide the morally correct actions and do them even if it means court martial or death?

    Don't get me wrong. I'm okay for soldiers to do this in extreme examples. But I don't think this should be the norm.

    I think we should shift the focus to the leaders instead of the soldiers. They are better positioned to make these decisions and have the time to do so.

    And it's their job.

  • “I saw these and thought of you”

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  • Huh, I thought Capital was a light read. Maybe I am confusing it with the flyer.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Be that as it may, the left is not going to do well if the prerequisite to having discussions is to read a bunch of literature. I think we need to find a way to make our tent bigger.

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  • Thank you for your reply.

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  • Why? Information is information. Why does it matter if it comes from books or videos?

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  • I watch Vaush a lot and I haven't seen what you are talking about.

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  • Yeah, I am not surprised that you have disagreements behind Lenin and AES. The two are pretty related and hard to pull apart. I was just surprised that you would disagree with any of his Marxist takes. I think you both agree what the problems are from a Marxist perspective.

    As for the sex offenders/sex pest stuff. I don't think he is those things, but I understand I am just one person. From the stuff I have seen it is mostly people that disagree with him that label him as such as a way to get around the fact they don't really have a leg to stand on; Fascists and the like. Not saying that is you of course.

    Thanks for taking the time to talk this though by the way. I figure you get hit with a lot of stuff.

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  • No idea, I have only watch him one or two times. Seemed good to me.

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  • I do get that vibe from Vaush occasionally. Unfortunately the attention economy is a real thing and I would be impressed with anyone with the same reach as Vaush wouldn't be doing similar things. I am not sure I would be as far left as I am without his content.