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Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM by bdndndndbve on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:19PM (#42935496)
It's wild to me that despite tremendous resources and 100+ years of time capitalism still kills millions of people a year with starvation and preventable diseases. But every right winger has a pet wikipedia page about a failed communist state with no critical examination of why they failed beyond "communism bad".

To clarify my stance I'm an anarchist and that page has a lot of good examples of successful worker owned collectives.

Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM by zemvpferreira on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:03PM (#42936190)
To me it's equally as wild that you say such a thing when no system in human history did as much as capitalism to alleviate hunger and disease. In fact all other systems combined still can't touch the progress we've made to eradicate famine and disease while "under capitalism".
Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM by satvikpendem on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:30PM (#42939958)
There are good critically examined rebuttals if you actually look for them beyond Wikipedia which is not designed for that purpose. I read a book recently called Socialism: the failed idea that never dies, and while it has a clickbait title, the arguments are pretty cogent as to why people throughout history want to enact socialism based systems and why they eventually fail.
Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM by chii on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:16PM (#42943713)
> capitalism still kills millions of people a year with starvation and preventable diseases

as if somehow, it's the responsibility of those capitalists to ensure those starving people have food and diseases cured - for nothing in return.

Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM by BriggyDwiggs42 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @12:39PM (#42964632)
Why else do we even bother making a society?