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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by skookumchuck on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:22AM (#16855703)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's the other way around!
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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by Semirhage on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:24AM (#16859163)
Can we possibly have discussions without them devolving into false dichotomies between two or three ideologies? It may come as a shock to some, but it’s not all about crony capitalism or Marxism, there are other options, hybridized options, and room for new thinking. It’s stultifying to see every critique of what the US laughingly calls the free market devolve into people screaming “Communism then, haha! Mao and Stalin killed 100 million!”

Can we at least pretend to argue in good faith?

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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by skookumchuck on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:31AM (#16864901)
> there are other options, hybridized options,

If you put economies on a line between free markets and communism, the economies do better the closer they are to free markets.

> and room for new thinking.

About every mix has been tried already, and the results are clear.

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