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conc, in It ain't much, but it's honest work

Corn snakes, Cornish hens, Nigel Cornberry, the ethical sources of corn syrup are only restricted by the imagination.

AttackPanda, in It ain't much, but it's honest work

I keep the wine makers in my thoughts as tapping the grape vines is even harder. Those can be super thin from what I understand.

conc, in Useless white circle

Going to make me puke, toes intertwined like that is gross af

HonoraryMancunian,

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Sludgehammer, in It ain't much, but it's honest work
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IIRC there has been speculation that teosinte was originally cultivated for their stalks which were juiced much like sugar cane. Only later when a mutation got rid of the rock hard seed coat did it become a grain crop.

lapislazuli, in Big biz

You’ll need long eyeballs to use them, though.

Etienne_Dahu,

Hear me out… Eyeballs extenders!

Track_Shovel, in eat the rich
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wraithdrone, in eat the rich

Cause, you know, it’s always worked soo well in the past…

ssboomman,

What’s the other option? Continue to be fucked by a system the privatizes everything and destroys our environment? Continue to be fucked harder by the billionaire class?

oo1,

This dude must be trolling.

or maybe doesn't have a very broad experience of assets, ownership or work.

wraithdrone,

Surely you don’t want to suggest that environmental protection has worked better in socialist countries?

spookedbyroaches,

So you think when the state owns the means of production things are gonna be better?

ssboomman,

Nah but When the workers do it will be.

pgp,

Which past is this that you speak of? And how is the present a better option than anything at all, really?

wraithdrone,

You mean apart from not getting shot if you want to leave the country or being sent to be worked to death in a prison labor camp for a dissenting opinion?

pgp,

Still don’t know what you’re talking about. Anyway, in capitalist free America people are shot for knocking in the neighbour’s door, is that better? Lest we talk about the private jail system that demands prisoners, in order to be sustainable.

wraithdrone,

Have you never heard about the USSR, the GDR or communist China?

spookedbyroaches,

The Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam. Are these countries you want us to model ourselves after?

OurToothbrush,

Yes. All of those countries had more civil rights and longer life expectancy after the revolution

spookedbyroaches,

Oh yeah that makes sense. Because a revolution automatically means that your life expectancy increases. At this point, let’s just have continuous revoltuions back to back. We’ll live forever.

OurToothbrush, (edited )

No, overthrowing capitalism and beginning a transition to a more rational economic system increases your life expectancy. You can literally look up graphs.

statista.com/…/life-expectancy-russia-all-time/

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

It has, and anybody who has even a bare minimum of historical literacy knows this.

Domille, in Fried

I can relate lol

blunderworld, in eat the rich

How exactly? Other than excessive bloodshed, which - other than edgelord tankies - most people would neither want, nor have the stomach to pursue.

ByteJunk,
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

General strike (like the writers guild, except everyone) until the distribution of (a part of the) dividends to the workers is enshrined into law.

Sounds pretty doable to me.

yogthos,
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Revolutions have happened and will continue to happen regardless of how much smug liberals will bloviate about edgelord tankies.

Socsa,

And they will continue to become stuck in the dictatorship phase until you acknowledge that you cannot create political agency via mass murder of innocents.

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

Creating political agency via mass murder of innocents is the basis for the western system of government buddy.

Socsa,

This doesn’t make any sense

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

Western society is built on genocide and slavery. Latest example of that is the war on terror where US regime massacred over 6 million innocent people to maintain its hegemony in the Middle East.

Socsa,

Be me. Swedish. Wake up and go to genocide factory. Get home from genocide factory. Make chicken potstickers.

OurToothbrush,

Read “riding the wave” fo learn about how Scandinavian countries are beneficiaries of the imperialist system

yogthos,
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blunderworld,

Okay sure, so what examples do you have of a successful modern revolution?

Bonus points if you can name one where the winners didn’t just immediately change the rules and continue fucking over the little guy.

Another bonus point if you can name an example where a revolution didn’t result in disproportionate civilian deaths relative to the ‘bad guys’.

Then again, maybe you’re one of those ‘the end justifies the means’ kind of guys, who fantasizes about saving the rest of us by way of firing squad. If that’s the case, I’ll expect you to be on the front line to fight the government funded military force that shows up.

Or maybe, just maybe you’re another lame ass tankie who talks a big game, but would piss their pants if someone so much as gave you a dirty look IRL.

yogthos,
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Soviet revolution in Russia, Revolution in China, in Cuba, in Vietnam, in Laos, in Nicaragua, just to name a few.

Bonus points if you can name one where the winners didn’t just immediately change the rules and continue fucking over the little guy.

None of the above examples did anything of the sort as anybody with even a modicum of historical literacy knows.

Another bonus point if you can name an example where a revolution didn’t result in disproportionate civilian deaths relative to the ‘bad guys’.

Define what’s disproportionate and how you decide on what’s proportionate.

Then again, maybe you’re one of those ‘the end justifies the means’ kind of guys, who fantasizes about saving the rest of us by way of firing squad. If that’s the case, I’ll expect you to be on the front line to fight the government funded military force that shows up.

Then again, maybe you’re one of those people who are benefiting from capitalism and don’t care about the suffering of other people as long as you got yours.

Or maybe, just maybe you’re another lame ass tankie who talks a big game, but would piss their pants if someone so much as gave you a dirty look IRL.

Or maybe, just maybe you’re an ignorant dronie who is as illiterate as you’re ignorant.

Socsa,

Honestly the whole “eat the rich” thing is pretty offensive if you know your Chinese history, considering ritualistic torture cannibalism actually happened during the cultural revolution and is pretty well documented from actual CCP sources. In this case “the rich” were actually teachers and scientists.

lolcatnip,

So they didn’t eat the rich.

masquenox,

other than edgelord tankies

Maybe you shouldn’t use terms if you don’t understand them, liberal.

IntrepidIceIgloo,

Anyone who uses liberal as an insult is incredibly cringe in my book.

masquenox,

There’s nothing cringier than right-wingers who pretend they aren’t right-wingers… ie, liberals. For people who can be called leftist with a straight face, “liberal” is quite the insult.

Wanna see what MLK had to say about liberals?

IntrepidIceIgloo,

You lump us with fascists. “Scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds” has to be one of the most ridiculous things ever said. We’re not your enemies! Democratic socialists are in the Democrat party in America. Social Liberals and Social Democrats have much more in common than Social Liberals and Conservatives. In Europe Liberals and moderate socialists form parliamentary coalitions

Pili, (edited )

“Scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds” has to be one of the most ridiculous things ever said.

It’s not ridiculous, it’s simply historically true. Go ask any European and they’ll explain to you how Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco got to power.

They’ll also tell you how in all their respective countries, the liberals are currently normalizing the far right in their media to counter the rise of leftist movements.

Edit: oh and also, every liberal government is currently supporting the Palestinian genocide, so that should be a pretty big clue too.

OurToothbrush,

Read the economy and class structure of german fascism if you want a detailed explanation for “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”

masquenox,

Scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds” has to be one of the most ridiculous things

Really? Liberals are invested in the maintenance of the status quo, but aren’t willing to do the dirty and bloody work that the maintanance of the status quo requires… fascists are. It’s a match made in the deepest pits of hell. There’s nothing new about this - the liberal Weimar regime climbed into bed with fascism right from the get-go to crush working class revolt. It’s the same reason the liberals USians vote into the Waffle House are more interested in “reaching across the aisle” than actually doing anything to prevent white supremacist terrorism.

Who else will protect the capitalist world order for you, liberal? You? Who did you think maintains the murderous exploitation in the 3rd world that makes your glorious 1st world existence possible? It’s fascists, genius… your precious world order cannot be maintained without them.

If a fascist regime rises, it’s only because a liberal regime came before it that loosened the ground for it to grow.

oo1,

i'd do some intellectual property reform.
some banking reform - more local / peer group/long term lending requirements, less fickle international finance. (and less fucking mortgage bubbles!)
some small business support / starter initiatives - link that in with how banks work.

i'd consider lobbying for some government sposored work to generate open source plans and enable production processes for useful tools - Okay that isn't going to happen , , ,

but it's not all or nothing, but you can do things to help some more workers control and access more of their tooling even if its not outright ownership of the end to end production process.

(By the way i'm basically arguing for a more "free" market in the ecnomic sense (easy access for a large number of small scale producers). . . which is exactly not what large-scale capitalists want.
They want a market "free" from any thing that might regulate their attempts to secure economic power and their abiity to use it to generate supernormal prices/profits.)

Progress doesnt happen in 4-5 year political cycles thats a hard one to improve without an electorate capable (any maybe secure enough) to thing about the longer term. Odd that it was extreme econmic and political uncertainty that brought out the likes of FDR and other post-war that people were most willing to think long term when it came to their governemnts - I guess it brought out all sorts of "crazies".

The big one in terms of bloodshed is land reform - and it has been done in a few places - sort of post-colonial type situations - but granted it does ususally have blooodshed. It's a personal judgment what degree is "excessive bloodshed".

spookedbyroaches,

What does bank reform mean? Banks already give loans to small bussinesses.

You can start a company that does what you want them to do. You can create all the innovative processes you want and open source them in the existing system.

PunnyName, (edited )

Start by talking about your wages. Most people won’t even do that, for fear of reprisals. Even though it’s protected federally.

Casually bringing up support for unions, and those on strike.

This is base level, and in many places, will take a long time to see movement.

Someonelol,

Take the route California is taking and educate the kids about worker’s rights. Teach them it’s not okay to be exploited at the work place and encourage them to tell their parents about it. Civics classes should also be taught to learn how the government works and what people’s rights are under the Constitution. Encourage people to unionize now that they know how the system works.

Once the basics have been taught, elect people who care about government reform for social policies by paying for them with higher corporate and personal wealth taxes. Reform the tax system the wealthy have been using to hide their money. All their money is tied up in stocks and they’re living off of multimillion dollar loans? Fuck them, tax a big percentage of the loan. All these things can be done to indirectly seize the fruits of their production at least.

LavaPlanet,

The women of Iceland went on strike in 1975, they stopped doing literally everything, walked out of the home, left the kids, to demonstrate how much the system would crumble without them, how important they are to everything being able to function, and ask for equal pay. They flipped everything overnight.

The current system is all the workers do all the work, and the profits from that work go almost entirely to some douvhe who won birth lotto. The system is already rigged. Unrigging the system would look like walking off the job, but globally. It’s going to happen. Society is squeezed too tightly, there’s going to be havoc.

OurToothbrush,

THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

Agreed, lets just keep doing whatever the capitalists demand until their insatiable greed destroys them and us.

vice.com/…/1500-scientists-warn-society-could-col…

It’s not like it’s gonna take that long. And if not climate change, the AI they don’t fully understand but are trying to monetize. And if not AI, CRISPR derived vectors they don’t fully understand but are trying to monetize, etc.

Lets just stay the course. It will all work out in the end, at least for the planet, and that’s ultimately what matters.

blunderworld, (edited )

That isn’t what I said and I think you know it. Next time just say you don’t know the answer either and save yourself the effort.

AllonzeeLV,

I know what humans are going to do by our track record. Kick the can until there is a physical obstruction preventing it.

We will talk the biggest of games claiming otherwise the whole time, though. Surely rhetoric will save the day this time!

blunderworld,

You seem to know a lot for a guy who hasn’t been able to suggest any kind of realistic solution.

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

I believe humanity has passed the point where we can. We lack the will. We’re monkeys just barely smart enough with concerted effort to create technologies we lack the impulse control to wield responsibly. We figured out gun powder, and proceeded to use it to commit genocides, for example.

This wasn’t a problem for the planet, only one another, until industrialization. Now we’re addicted to technologies that make wealthy people wealthier while poisoning our only shared habitat. Now we’re monkeys with multiple, competing self-destructive but potentially profitable technologies all vying to blow up in our face in the quest to enrich those that hold their patents, and they answer to no one. World governments instead seem to answer to them.

So yeah, I don’t see a non-violent solution where you put a big red nuclear button in an orangutan sanctuary that looks like their food dispenser button, and taking thr big red nuclear button away from them, even by force, is off the table.

I can only control myself, I can’t force my fellow peasants to stop digging their own graves to further enrich a few thousand sociopath families who’ve convinced them this is the only way. There’s peace in acceptance I suppose.

TheBeege,

I understand the bitterness, but whoever said the commenter wanted to do what capitalists demand? They just wanted to avoid bloodshed.

There are always options like general strikes, massive voting movements, etc. It’s just a matter of figuring out what will work and how to do it.

If you’re arguing that capitalists will respond with violence, that’s fair, but then the blame is on them, not the workers

Socsa,

These people don’t actually care about statecraft or political science. It’s all about fan service for them.

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

The severe, civilization scale consequences of the damage we have done, are presently doing, and will continue to do for private profit to our only habitat we all depemd on for survival from one moment to the next also doesn’t care about statecraft or political science attempts to minimize/ignore/discredit it through self-serving rhetoric of those in political power attempting to maintain that power.

Sorry. No bullshitting our way out of this one like it’s just another human on human genocide we can rebrand and massage the messaging of. The physics are determinate, and no amount our patented human extracted snake oil will change that.

Try to spin the greed vice, failing, and personality deficit as a positive like “rational self-interest” all day. Humanity sanctioning and even encouraging that darkest of impulses did this.

Lunachocken, in Add-on: same password, same identity.

Well once you get passkeys implemented in every website. Now they’ll need to steal your phone. Haha.

Tekchip,
@Tekchip@lemmy.world avatar

I get the joke.

But related real talk phones get got a lot. They won’t need to steal your phone they’ll just hack it like every other computer on the planet.

You don’t have to look much for the evidence.

pcmag.com/…/ileakage-flaw-can-prompt-apples-safar…

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…/amp/

FartsWithAnAccent, in Waitwaitwaitwait
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

Turn off the water you fool! We’ll drown!

porkins, in eat the rich

I’ve debated people at length on this topic and have concluded that this is a half-baked idea that is impossible to implement without destroying society in any form that has been presented to date.

BleatingZombie,

Let’s eat this guy, too

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

We can have the perpetual pain of subsistence and servitude to the oligarch club until it collapses under the weight of its own manipulation and propaganda after generations of needless suffering of our children and children’s children necessitating the painful work of rebuilding, or we can destroy the society built from the ground up as a capitalist exploitation trap and do the painful work of rebuilding.

This society perpetuates the misery and exploitation of the many to serve the whims and desires of the few. You act as if it’s worth saving. Go to one of your local tent cities, where we throw our fellow humans, aka defective capital batteries, to die of exposure and police harassment. This system is rotten to its core and will have to be torn down and rebuilt, the only question, just with climate change, is do we let the gaping wound continue fester, hoping it will be the next generation’s problem to amputate? Or do we take on the painful necessity of repairing the boomer’s greed plague for the future they didnt care about at all?

I’d rather our species be destroyed than continue to commit itself further and further to greed and greed worship. I consider greed far worse than hate. At least people that kill out of hate cared about who they killed, in that they want them dead. A capitalist that poisons children’s drinking water to make private shareholders a few extra dollars doesn’t even care to know those children’s names, they were just speedbumps to glorious profit. To me it is the darkest we can go to hurt others for profit. And our society’s core value above all others is greed. That’s worth saving?

porkins, (edited )

Your opinion is all feelings and no solutions. Morally, I can’t contend that it would be nice to help people who can’t help themselves and that we should definitely fix the human impact on the environment. I also agree that the Boomers caused a ton of shitty issues with poor policy choices stemming from greed. However, I don’t think that your solution is well thought out. It seems juvenile to simply say that the workers should assume the means of production. That in itself does not equate to a full working solution. Here’s an example of potential incremental changes that would help your cause: 1) Put term limits on all legislators. 2) Allow only one Supreme Court nomination per presidential term, adding a new judge to the pool. A retiring judge is replaced by a vote of the judiciary themselves. 3) Campaign finance reform with capped election funding. High salaries for politicians and steep penalties for kickbacks and bribery. Politicians with financial interests in a vote must recuse. 4) UBI. 5) Strict enforcement of antitrust laws. 6) Caps on higher education costs at public institutions. Federal loans only for public schools with capped interest rates. Your UBI will be tapped instead of a reliance on salary. 7) Reinstate a modernized Fairness Doctrine in order to ensure that people aren’t pigeon-holed into a narrow understanding of current affairs. 8) Create a pathways to citizenship for all with roots in the country then close the borders. Make a transparent immigration system with many more types of work visas. Strictly enforce the new policies. 9) Eliminate the electoral college in favor of direct ranked choice voting.

See, real changes. Not, “Let’s eat people and steal shit!”

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

Literally everything you just proposed is beyond a pipe dream under the current rigged system. The owners bribe the Republicans and Neoliberals to dictate their preferred economic policy as they stoke social issues to keep the peasants divided. The oligarchs that bribe both major parties will never permit UBI, they spent decades systematically legalizing political bribery culminating in citizens united, they are the reason Antitrust laws on the books aren’t enforced, they are the reason the fairness doctrine was abandoned for private profit, and they like us fighting over abortion, immigration, guns, etc because it stops us from uniting against them.

Also the idea that even without the oligarchs that politicians would regulate their own term limits is absurd. Why do you think they exempt their pay from government shutdowns and have lifetime universal healthcare just for themselves?

The last, last, last chance to do any of what you suggest using the constitutional tools of the system would have been to soundly and firmly reject the Reagan grift, trickle down economics, and the Jack Welch dehumanization of the economy 50 years ago. Instead they convinced their “opposition” party to take the bribes and the peasants not to engage in “unseemly” class war as they won without a fight. We’ve lived under class occupation ever since. This system is beyond all salvation.

Don’t worry though, the half of the peasants that have been indoctrinated from childhood to believe what you believe will protect that occupation against their own interests to the bitter end, so you have nothing to fear from us tankies.

Unfortunately for you, the sycophants, and capitalists, and everyone else including me, climate change is the physical reaction to our careless actions, and is completely immune to any and all pathetic attempts to obfuscate, blackmail, bribe, assassinate, or otherwise con it into backing down, despite all the vaporware like clean coal, corn ethanol, hydrogen, and planet scale carbon filter the capitalists try to make another buck on before last call. But oowee, they’re trying to bullshit their way out of it to darkly hilarious effect.

vice.com/…/1500-scientists-warn-society-could-col…

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02669-8

porkins,

You want too drastic a change. I believe a political evolution is still possible without throwing the baby out with the bath water.

irmoz,

There is no baby in this bathwater.

irmoz,

Your opinion is all feelings and no solutions

So try actually reading the Communist Manifesto - get it from the horse’s mouth, it’s very short. Then, if you still feel like there isn’t enough detail and that the reasoning isn’t detailed enough, try Kapital. And then, how about the decades and decades of theory that came after? You can keep claiming that socialists “don’t have any solutions”, but please realise that this is an absurd claim when the field of socialism has so, so many detailed and comprehensive theories based on observation, experimentation and further research - scientifically so.

porkins,

I will. I make it a point to read everything that people suggest to me. I’ll likely come back here to shit on it though.

irmoz, (edited )

Manifesto of the Communist Party - Marxists Internet Archive www.marxists.org/archive/marx/…/Manifesto.pdf

Capital Volume I www.marxists.org/archive/…/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

jlou,

Here is a short introduction to an argument for all companies to be controlled by the people that work in them:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies

It establishes an inalienable right to workplace democracy and an inalienable right to appropriate the positive and negative fruits of your labor

irmoz,

You can’t call an idea with 200 years of history and hundreds of books on the subject “half-baked” without explaining what about it you think is unfeasible. Either you have never actually talked to a socialist, or you’ve simply never listened.

So, a few questions:

  1. Why is it “half-baked”?
    • What ideas does it propose?
    • What is wrong with those ideas?
  2. How is it “impossible to implement”?
    • What methods are proposed?
    • What prevents those methods from working?
  3. What do you mean by “destroy society”?
    • What exactly do you define as society?
    • How would socialism “destroy” that?
porkins,

The factory has owners. It would be unfair to not compensate them for their capital investment. You are describing a situation where you disallow private enterprise, but all systems describing this type of agreement to date have resulted in terrible outcomes. It will destroy competition. I am reminded of hearing about my brother’s visit to the Soviet Union when he was younger. He went with his group to an ice cream shop and asked what flavors they have and they said vanilla. As in, this limits options and provides a shitty quality of life. It also leads to issues where people who are able to provide a high value to society are not rewarded at a higher rate than a lazy or dumb person. The incentive is gone. These are issues that no text has reconciled. Even Plato’s dreamed Utopia, he knew that such a thing only would work if you brainwashed people generationally to value the idea of communal ownership. He basically left it at the leaders not being able to own things, but having all that they need while other classes under them could still own things. In essence, his utopian society was totally unrealistic in any meaningful timeline and still formed different classes of people.

It destroys society to take away people’s possessions because we built a system where property ownership is a central component. Having possessions is such a basic human construct that your are living in a pipe dream if you feel that you can remove that. The idea that people would share with one another and not get what they are worth to society is salient in describing why socialism as a whole crumbles. You can have socialized policies, but destroying the whole economic system doesn’t work. See my reply later in this thread for examples of real incremental changes.

jlou,

Under postcapitalism, the factory would be commonly-owned. The company that operates the factory would worker-controlled. That being said, there is nothing wrong with the holder of the building even in common ownership setup being compensated. What is unfair is to demand control rights over the firm for this capital and make the workers at the company your employees. Not everyone against capitalism is a communist. There can still be economic incentives for productive activity

porkins,

That’s kind of how a business works though. People show up at the entity that you’ve orchestrated, work via your guidelines, and get paid.

jlou, (edited )

It doesn't have to work like that. Instead of capital hiring labor, labor can jointly hire capital and structure the firm as a worker coop. There are good ethical reasons for organizing production in a worker coop as well

irmoz,

Let’s start with your first assumption. Why must a factory have individual owners? Why not instead have it owned by the workers who are the ones actually producing?

Also, don’t conflate private and personal property. If you are indeed talking about private property, it is very unlikely you have any to begin with. The vast majority of private property is owned by a few billionaires.

Lastly, people do not need money to incentivise work. Boredom, creativity and the desire to help and or contribute to society does that well enough. Given a stable level of comfort, people will seek work that matters to them.

porkins,

I own private property and am not a billionaire, so not sure what you are on about with that statement. I got educated and have a decent living situation with a nice corporate remote job. I’ll have my student loan paid off around 40. These things were all easy to do. The people with issues do this to themselves. Sorry you are lazy and want to leach off my success.

irmoz,

It’s like you’re ignoring everything I say. Unless you’re a landlord or the owner of some business, you probably don’t own private property. If you can sit back and let other people make money for you without your input, you own private property.

Your comment reads like a copypasta. Why are you callibg me lazy? Did I say I don’t want to work? Of course I want to work. You’re not paying attention. There are huge barriers to people being able to succeed, and getting past thrm requires immense effort, luck or privilege. And the last one is the only guaranteed win.

porkins,

I learned ro code from handmedown computers at a young age and worked my way up the corporate ladder. I own a nice big home and am a millennial. I completed a part time MBA while working and am able to take vacation every three months or so. Nothing is stopping you all from being successful, but yourselves. I agree that the system has massive flaws, but destroying capitalism isn’t the answer. The risk-reward system works.

irmoz,

Sounds like you don’t own any private property, then.

porkins,

I own an acre AMA.

irmoz,

Oh? You rent it out, do you?

porkins,

No. I live in it, but I could because it is a free country. Unlike the “people-owned” regime that you are proposing.

irmoz,

You don’t deserve to own land you don’t use. Sorry :)

porkins,

What do you mean. I live on my land. Also, if I wanted to buy other land, I can because the system works.

irmoz,

This reads like dialogue from a satirical sketch about an out of touch wannabe landlord

porkins,

Because the workers didn’t find the money to buy a whole factory…

jlou,

Even if we ignore the artificially increased transaction costs and hold out problems associated with private ownership that make acquiring means of production more expensive, this point only justifies some sort of compensation from the workers as part of the negative fruits of their labor in production. It does not justify the capitalist appropriating 100% of the positive (legal right to produced outputs) and negative (legal liability for the used-up inputs) fruits of the workers' joint labor

porkins,

The workers get money for their labor…

jlou,

Property's moral basis is getting the positive and negative fruits of your labor. Capitalism denies the workers this as the employer solely appropriates the positive and negative fruits of their labor. The core of property's moral basis is the principle that legal and de facto responsibility should match. Receiving wages is not sufficient because the workers remain de facto responsible for the whole (positive and negative) product of the enterprise and are entitled to it on that basis

irmoz, (edited )

And what system do you think is keeping the workers too poor to do that?

What system makes it so that work must involve the buying of private property in the first place?

Also, here’s a perspective you might not hear often: why should the owner bear that burden and risk alone? That seems like too much pressure for one person. Poor capitalist. Doesn’t he realise he needs help?

masquenox,

The factory has owners.

Fuck the owners.

but all systems describing this type of agreement to date have resulted in terrible outcomes.

Prove it.

It will destroy competition.

What competition?

a high value to society are not rewarded

What value does Donald Trump bring to society?

The incentive is gone.

Prove it.

These are issues that no text has reconciled.

Prove it.

work if you brainwashed people generationally

You mean completely unlike people brainwashed into believiing “capitalism gud?”

Having possessions is such a basic human construct

Stop conflating simple possessions with private property, genius.

why socialism as a whole crumbles.

Socialism seems perfectly alive and kicking to me - despite the uncountable amounts of treasure spent violently crushing it.

See my reply later in this thread for examples of real incremental changes. no change whatsoever.

FTFY.

spookedbyroaches,

Fuck the owners.

Fine

Prove it (terrible outcomes for socialism)

The USSR, Cuba, PRC is better but for some reason they are very authoritarian.

What competition?

Granted there are many industries that don’t have good competition, but the vast majority do. Look at clothes makers, construction, pharma.

What value does Donald Trump bring to society?

He bought real estate where there was more demand than people expected, and took advantage of that. There was no apartments in the empty plot before Trump Tower, now there is and people want them.

Prove it. (innovation)

The USSR did have great amounts of innovation in the beginning, but once you get to a certain point, it just gets pretty much impossible. Look at the second person’s answer.

Prove it (reconcile)

While it is dumb to say that there are no texts to reconcile these issues. It is crazy how the USSR didn’t implement any solution except rewarding innovation to drive innovation. I’d say that is enough evidence to say with confidence that there are no existing solutions to the mentioned issues.

You mean completely unlike people brainwashed into believiing “capitalism gud?”

Sure there is some brainwashing in the right where they think capitalism is great in and of itself. I think that people also recognize that capitalism needs some good amount of regulation that would curb the failures there. It’s not perfect as it exists now, but it sure as shit better than any socialist or communist nation.

Socialism seems perfectly alive and kicking to me - despite the uncountable amounts of treasure spent violently crushing it.

If you’re gonna make enemies with the most powerful nation in the world, that usually happens. The USA saw a threat to their influence and took action.

masquenox,

The USSR, Cuba, PRC is better

You’re going to have to name examples where the working class actually controls the means of production - it can’t actually be socialism otherwise, can it?

Granted there are many industries that don’t have good competition

Funny… it’s almost as if capitalists talk about “competition” a lot to justify their parasitic existence - but in reality they absolutely seem to hate the idea of competition. Must be purely my imagination, though.

He bought real estate

In other words… nothing. Do you have any real examples of capitalists being anything other than parasites?

The USSR did have great amounts of innovation

The USSR allowed the innovation that suited the CPSU’s interests. In the exact same way, the US only allows innovation that suits the interests of the ruling elites - that’s why you can buy an expensive new smartphone every month but you can’t buy a cheap lightbulb that will last you thirty years that is based on hundred-year-old technology. Humans do not require "incentivization* to innovate - in fact, capitalism’s need to repress innovation that doesn’t suit the interests of a capitalist elite is thoroughly understood.

It is crazy how the USSR didn’t implement any solution except rewarding innovation to drive innovation.

See the answer above.

I think that people also recognize that capitalism needs some good amount of regulation

The myth that you can “fix” capitalism through regulation is pure propaganda.

but it sure as shit better than any socialist or communist nation.

Nope. There are lots of people in the US that sure wishes they could have Cuba’s healthcare system - and Cuba’s healthcare system isn’t even socialist nor communist.

If you’re gonna make enemies with the most powerful nation

The US is “most” at a lot of things - none of them are worth bragging about. And it has utterly failed to crush socialism even within it’s own borders, never mind anywhere else in the world.

jlou,

Anti-capitalism is not necessarily socialism or communism. Anti-capitalism does not necessarily imply supporting the USSR's particular policies. The mistake that the USSR and others made was not using market mechanisms when they make sense.
Trump participates in the systematic denial of people's equal claim to land and natural resources with his real estate empire. Land and natural resources should be commonly-owned.
There is no reason innovation can't be rewarded under postcapitalism

porkins,

What if I refuse to work?

masquenox,

Then… nothing.

Seraph, in eat the rich
@Seraph@kbin.social avatar

Directly seizing I don't think would end well. I think it's one of the short comings of communism.

Encouraging employee owned companies is where it's at. But to be honest I'm not sure how you would incentivize that.

TheBeege,

You incentivize the same way unions are growing now. Just show people the benefits and constantly shout it from the highest mountain tops.

So bb, tell me more about those sweet, sweet employee-owned companies for other readers’ benefit.

Tell me more about how employee owned companies are better at long term planning. Tell me more about how they’re concerned about balancing profit for survival’s sake with societal good. Tell me more about how they participate in the benefits of the free market via competition while not becoming all-consuming, profit-driven monsters. Tell me more about how they avoid stakeholder-chosen, sociopathic leadership in favor of leaders wanting the best for the company’s mission and its employees. Tell me more about the coffee shop branch that was shut down by its company and reopened as an employee-owned cafe. Tell me more about AAA. Tell me sweet nothings, bb

(And yes, I’m explicitly not talking about communism because it’s an emotionally charged concept, and i want to focus on things maybe people don’t know so much about)

jlou, (edited )

A better case for worker cooperatives is just pointing out they satisfy the moral principle that legal and de facto responsibility should match. The workers are jointly de facto responsible for using up the inputs to produce the outputs, but in a capitalist firm, the employer holds sole legal responsibility for 100% the corresponding legal claim to the positive and negative result of the enterprise while employees receive 0%. In a worker coop, this mismatch is corrected

masquenox,

Encouraging employee owned companies is where it’s at.

What did you think “seize the means of production” meant?

But to be honest I’m not sure how you would incentivize that.

Oh, that’s simple - you get rid of the police.

jlou,

Seize the means of production comes from a conceptually separate part of anti-capitalist critique then workers' control/workers' self-management. It is common to conflate these two strands of anti-capitalist thoughts. It is technically possible to have common ownership of the means of production without workers' self-management and workers' self-management without common ownership of the means of production. Universal worker coops only requires abolishing wage labor not private ownership @memes

masquenox,

I don’t think the person I was responding to is ready for this level of analysis, okay?

jlou,

Fair enough

Seraph,
@Seraph@kbin.social avatar

Thanks for assuming I'm an idiot who doesn't know what I'm talking about. Pleasure to meet you too!

masquenox,

I didn’t assume you’re an idiot - I did assume that not everyone on here is familiar with a hundred-years worth of anarcho-syndicalist theory, okay?

Kedly, in Add-on: same password, same identity.

Counterpoint: Password Manager = One point of failure

Multiple Strong Passwords that have to be changed every 3 months even to sign on to your cornerstore rewards program without a password manager? Guess you’re never accessing any account older than 3 months because you’ve forgotten th3 b1lli0n$ oF s+r0ng p4s5w0rds Y0u h4Ve cr3atEd!

Catsrules,

Actually you are the single point of failure

xkcd.com/538/

Kedly,

I mean yeah, the security benefit from being un-notable isnt negligible

0xD,

Okay and now let’s get into threat modelling and risk management.

What is the purpose of a password manager? What are the possible threats against them, and what are those against singular passwords for services? What is the risk of each of those?

Kedly,

Guys, before you argue with me, password security is something that EVERYONE in the 1st world has to deal with, not just tech nerds. If you need to grow up around computers or take a class for it to be a good form of security, its a shit form of security for the general public

0xD,

But you don’t?

Password managers really are not hard to use. Also there’s stuff like the password manager built into iOS, for example, which you don’t even have to think about.

My comment about threat modelling was that you do not seem to understand the purpose of password managers. A way bigger problem for the average person online is password reuse, not targeted attacks against password vaults. That is the problem they solve.

wewbull,

The weird trope I’ve seen now is “don’t use the password manager in your browser”. For the life of me, I can’t think why some think a browser plugin to a commercial password manager is safer than the built in version.

Gestrid,

They probably think it’s safer somehow. But I don’t really get how.

Most built-in password managers allow for you to setup a master password of sorts if you try to sync everything to a new device, and most also require you to use your computer’s native verification to view a single password in plaintext or export all of them as plaintext. (For browsers on Windows, they use Windows Hello; for browsers on Android, they use the fingerprint scanner or the lock screen pin.)

FakinUpCountryDegen,

That’s…not a counterpoint.

You can have strong authentication on your central password manager, and have an encrypted container protecting it.

There is no logical argument against password vaults as a concept. There are bad implementations of specific password vaults, but a password vault is the answer for the highest possible password based security available in 2023.

Kedly,

And figuring out which password managers to use is not a task which a lot of people know where to start, and it is STILL a single point of failure

RedditRefugee69,

What makes it completely unusable for me is that I don’t have a single work computer I use. I have to bounce around computers at work, my personal phone, computer, work iPad, etc.

Comment105,

I have no idea about how to protect a password manager with an encrypted container.

And to be honest with you, it’s not something I’m likely to do even if you do attempt to explain the 60 minute long $10 18-step process to me. Or however long it takes and whatever it costs.

And really, for all my ignorant ass knows you could’ve just as well been encouraging me to get malware and I’d be none the wiser.

Ragdoll_X, in eat the rich
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