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  • There are a few misconceptions in your comment:

    While I do agree that there are other problems like racism and bigotry which existed before capitalism (based on an answer you gave in another comment) and while I do agree these also need to be addressed, I do disagree that capitalism isn’t a major source of problems of modernity.

    Why?

    Because the cornerstone of capitalism is to use money to generate more money in a feedback loop towards (nonexistent) “infinite money” (which is different from feudalism, roman empire or ancient Egypt which all had some sort of market without being capitalist economies).

    SInce it is impossible to make infinity money, an inherent part of capitalism are the crises cycles of boom and bust.

    It also makes the creation of services as an afterthought (because making money is more important) and it is also tied to the enshitfication we’re seeing today.

     

    I think you’re calling as “capitalism” a thing that is actually “technological innovation (under capitalism)”

    We’re all aware of free/open source softwares

    We’re all aware that it is possible to develop technological innovation outside of capitalist framework (and again: Capitalism = Using money to make more (infinite) money)

    almost all of scientific researches advances are because of passion of the researches instead of the greed of capitalism.

    Yes… Everyone “needs” money to survive. But I hope you do agree that nobody in the world needs billions of dollars to simply survive.

    for God’s sake, a lot of people living in “third world” dream of earning 300 dollars a month to survive and consider that making 1000 dollars a month is a small luxury (I’m from brasil and 1000 dollars is around R$ 4000 or R$ 5000 while most people lives with R$3000 or less)

    What I’m saying is that, past the required money for surviving and for having a few “luxuries”, there is no need for anyone having millions or billions of dollars every month and that it would be possible to keep scientific and technological grow under such conditions because curiosity and desire for changes are part of human nature.

    if it was entirely impossible for humans to develop things without being paid before, then nothing around open/free software would exist.




  • nekbardrun@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneWith prep rule
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    17 hours ago

    I’m team “All animals must receive a pet”

    I wouldn’t fight a goose, but only lord knows how much would I fight to give the goose my headpats and to have it really tame around me.

    I would bring my A-Game and armed to the teeth with peanuts, grapes, banana and pellets!

    And this fight will be legendary taking many day and nights (actually, scratch the idea of taking nights. A healthy goose must have a healthy and undisturbed sleep)




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    22 hours ago

    Nope. It is the far right gaining immense amount of power while both moderate right, left and “extreme left” are yelling at the terrorists (far right) wanting to crash the airplanes in the towers.

    Be aware that if you lean in the far right, you risk going down with the terrorists while the “osama bin laden” of this story (and to be clear, I mean Elon) will be hidden behind the safety of his bunker.

    Or if you like anime analogy (and spoilers of boku no hero academy): spoiler

    It is like trying to get favors from all for one in the hopes that he won’t fuck over your country (and the anime is explicit in saying that it isn a matter of if. Only when.)



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    23 hours ago

    I now regretting making the previous comment.

    I made the previous comment in a jesting tone like “same… but different… but still the same”

    Also, I went into a rabbit hole seraching for variations of nazi salute (because I know from history that brasil integralist movement had their own version of roman salute called anauê) and found about the bellamy salute.

    Seeing that the nazis are actually using the “roman salute” as an actual excuse, I’ll take back what I said.

    He is doing the nazi salute. Period.



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    23 hours ago

    Forget all that story of different salutes and making fun of elon by saying that he is making the american “nazi salute”

    Lets call a spade a spade.

    Elon is doing the nazi salute and there is no other way to take it other than being serious.

    That fucker must get down from power.

    PS: I removed my previous snarky comment about bellamy salute and made this new one because it is a serious business