• atomicfox@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    America bad! Europe good! I was really hoping we left this tired joke on Reddit.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Yes. I’m more middle-left, but this place seems to be going a bit far towards anti-capitalist socialism and anarchy. Capitalism isn’t the problem, greed is. That can be fixed with restrictions on what corporations can get away with - not ad hominems against the founders and CEOs.

      Edit: 3 months of capitalist bullcrap later, I’m a socialist now…

      That said, fuck Spez. That was an executive decision made solely by him.

      Also, far anti-corporateism should probably be expected in a community that consists solely of people (mostly geeks) ‘on strike’ because a big company ruined their old platform…

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        1 year ago

        That can be fixed with restrictions on what corporations can get away with

        The problem is that capital can and does react to this. Companies will bribe and lobby until they can erode whatever meager guardrails you managed to install, and in the meantime they’ll carefully calculate how much they can break the law before the consequences outweigh the benefits.

        As long as capital is the main driver of politics this will keep happening. “Take money out of politics” doesn’t work, either, because capital will erode or evade those laws, too. You do have to look at moving on from capitalism if you want anything more than a small, temporary change.

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        1 year ago

        capitalism isn’t the problem, greed is

        Lol. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie, as certain bearded guy said.