Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision

Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by rbanffy on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:36AM (#26696984)

Capitalism extracts work from wealth gradients the same way a Stirling engine extracts it from temperature ones. The higher the gradient, the more efficient it becomes.

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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by DetroitThrow on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:55AM (#26697087)

Haha, I wish this wasn't such a STEM-y analogy so I could mention it to my friends, it's great and describes so much in so little.

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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by ClumsyPilot on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:51AM (#26697817)

Is it a pro and anti capitalism point, i cant tell.

By that logic it was most efficient with slavery? And the next best thing with serfs?

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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by rbanffy on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:14AM (#26697990)

It’s not pro or against. It’s an observation. Slavery and serfdom is not as efficient because the motivation to work is extrinsic and needs work to maintain.

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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by WalterBright on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:13PM (#26705336)

It's worse than that. Slaves will actively sabotage the work, even at the risk of execution when caught.

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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by rbanffy on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:43PM (#26717151)

I went for the most morally neutral analogy I could find. Systems and models are not inherently good or bad - what gives that quality is how we use them.

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Re:Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision by hoophoop on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:53AM (#26724961)

There's nothing morally neutral in exploitation.

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