thelasthuman

I will never understand people's innate desire to pull the ladder up behind them after they've achieved a comfortable life.

Then again I've never strived for comfort, just the rarest thing of all... equality.

Isn't having a satisfying life subjective?

Wasn't homosexuality still considered a disease in the DSM-III?

The privileged beneficiaries of capitalism are the people that hire the population of HN to make them money.

As for how to make things more fair, a good start would be to allow bad actors (the well connected good ole boys) in the economy to die off instead of bailing them out. Perhaps a better use of that money would be to invest in community owned assets (like low income housing) and businesses (corporations structured similarly to Mondragon)?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

Considering the shift in the Overton window the last 50 years in the USA, radically center is right wing.

So figure out when market manipulators are going to act? You'd have to be colluding along side them to know this.

This data that the tech Giants hold close to their chest belongs to the people and should be released for competitors to use in their products.

I envision companies competing on UX/privacy/ect while all using the same data set. People should be able to use Myspace to talk to their grandparents on Facebook.

How it is now is like if Ma Bell was never broken up, and we were only able to use our AT&T phone and data plan to talk to other AT&T customers only. How could any other phone company start with such barriers in place.

But who am I? Just the last human.

It's so sad that undoing horrible laws and ineffective prohibitions must come down to dollars and cents, rather than the innate freedom we all should have.

Land of the fee, home of the slave.

Governments in capitalist societies are committees of the rich.

The system is working as intended.

"I like to bring up black death in discussions when people complain that our current time is "difficult"."

IMO, we can do so much more with the technological advances we've made. We have used technology to tame nature, but are unable to tame the beast within ourselves.

Having to compare our information age society with feudal societies wracked with the plague to prove how much better things are proves my point. Things should be way better, but they aren't outside of the small bubbles that are slowly popping/deflating in the first world.

When the people have nothing left to lose, they will make the right choice and strike.

The key is to give the working class the slightest bit of hope to cling onto.

People will accept lots of abuse if they think there is still a chance of making it in life if they obey their masters.

And so the truth is laid bare.

Capital > humanity

This is why people is not free to move where they can find the most benefit, but capital is.

Priorities.

Cassettes seem very durable compared to CDs and vinyl.

Maybe the erosion of the safety net and the great disconnect between productivity increases and increases in wages?

People who were not independently wealthy are not able to afford to do anything with their time that doesn't earn them money. People are less able to take risks, more apt to settle for less so long as less is stable and safer.

There is also a chilling effect on communities as everyone scrambles to "get theirs" when these support systems have their legs kicked out from under them.

IMO of course.

How important is this privilege if I can maliciously control how you vote?

Now imagine the good we can do with real electoral reform (Democrats idea of repealing citizens United is a meager start, but weak lip service to real reform)

What we have now - First Past The Post Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Range Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig

Single Transferable Vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

Alternative Vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

Mixed-Member Proportional Representation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU

Electoral reform is just step 1, something we can all come together for. Something no one could possibly be against.

How about if I control who can be voted for?

Of course it matters - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Erph1L_XwVQ

bonus video:

This video will make you angry -https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

Would you support a equitable society free of hierarchy (and then free of these leaders that must be villans)?

> > The most jarring incentive reportedly comes out of Chicago, which, under state law, could redirect between 50 and 100 percent of the income taxes incurred by Amazon employees right back to Amazon

Stealing the worker's surplus labor value isn't enough?

Reform the electoral system to achieve the representation we all deserve.

The electoral system we use now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Alternatives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU

We can start introducing these to everyone at the state and local level to build momentum for electoral reform at the federal level.

A good old fashioned general strike until we get what we need from our "representatives".

Internalize profits, externalize costs.

> I suspect it happens a lot less than in North America, because there is a mandatory payment of 600 Euro per passenger if you get to the departure gate but are denied boarding to the plane

Is there anything that keeps the fine increasing alongside inflation?

T_D went to voat already back when I still used it (I gave up because they refused to add the ability to mute users), they couldn't handle it for even a week.

If you educate the poor and disadvantaged, they will demand equality.

If the disadvantaged were to be competitive, then it's harder for those at the top to hold onto what they have.

This is undesirable for those whose position in society requires hierarchy. Capitalists hate competition.

You need a permit for a public assembly for most places in the USA. Granted there are a lot of differences between the two countries, but this could happen here.

For something supposedly so good on it's own, religion really does try it's best to target vulnerable people. Naive children, desperate people, people who have lost someone, people sick with addiction (referencing the submitting to the higher power step).

Whatever helps during trying times I guess. It just seems to me if religion was so great on its own, it would be approached in a calm rational manner targeted at mature adults with no driving force behind it.

Capital is free to move where it gets the most benefit, why aren't people this free as well?

Simple priorities. We value these money games we play with each other more than people.

This is why capital is free to go where it may find the most benefit to it, but human beings are not.

Priorities.

I would like to know more, can you elaborate?

UBI is an attempt to save capitalism from itself. That's why you see 1%ers like Elon musk advocate for it.

While I appreciate where you are coming from, I disagree. No one should live in poverty, job or not.

But it does show how far we are from getting there when people can't even agree that people with jobs shouldn't be living in poverty.