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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by andrepd on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:29PM (#41072424)
>If you wanted to implement a perfectly-efficient system, would that mean banning the fulfillment of any desire that wasn’t strictly a need? I don’t think anyone would want to live in such a system.

Holy mother of slippery slopes x) Do you think $current_economic_system can be improved? Ah so you want to ban fulfillment of any desire? Sheesh

Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by apantel on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:08PM (#41073412)
You’re strawmanning. I was caricaturing the call for efficiency by blowing it up into a monster. I wasn’t saying I want to ban fulfillment of desire, or saying that’s the only alternative to the status quo.
Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by entropicdrifter on Friday July 26, 2024 @01:15PM (#41080375)
The irony of accusing the other person in the conversation of strawmanning while describing your own strawmanning as "caricaturing" as if that were any different