Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
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Republicans scream to the rafters about how they love America.
But goddamn, do they ever hate Americans.
@sentient_water Excellent video. My wife has been saying Thump has dirt on these people for several years now as a likely explanation for their support of him after all the bad things they previously said about this walking, talking poison spraying pestilence. 🤬
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Trickle Down economics is BS
Trickle Down Kompromat is not
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@TomWellborn@universeodon.com Omg this is the reality of the My Precious crowd.
@StillIRise1963 I hated “tweet” and the idea of “twittering”, but never joined that place. Musky seems to be bad turn for that platform.🙃
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Russia is getting desperate, conscripting pensioners now.
@tigerpunk@masto.pt Nihilism: A doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are meaningless. I have been pondering this since I retired without work to occupy a hefty junk of my life. Here is the point, if our existence is just one lifetime, a flash in the infinite expanse of time, nothing matters, who cares? We’re all dead, non-existence is the norm. For it to matter, have meaning, there must be more. I like this idea, just not prepared to speculate on what that more is.
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Two new holes dug in the lawn. These plants were transplanted from a seldom visited side yard. Making the lawn dissappear one hole at a time
See previous post for more pics
@wakame @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social @shuro Hell there was a time when everyone in your company was part of the team and the owner wanted to share the wealth. Sometimes that still happens, but in many cases the team itself is divided between the important people and the expendables, and don’t forget about the shareholders. 🤔 Look at the CEO/worker pay ratio from the 1950s as compared to today.
@wakame @shuro @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Wealth, I would not advocate the cliff solution, 😉 but I would advocate hard significant wealth caps. With automation arising, I don’t see the 1%living well and everyone else struggling as viable. Besides who needs more than $1m/yr to live a good life? When I was working I was very comfortable at $250k/yr but that was not living in California. 🫤
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@shuro @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00
I implicitly assumed that the "important" part of exploitation would not be natural resources, but humans/human labor.
I agree that someone could become a stronger opponent if you, for example, take nutrition and materials for weapons and armor into account. This would be only based on resources.
My argument for your example would be either "Who cares for the US?" or "If you really wanted to eliminate a single person, why not just pay for it?"
In the second case, I am not talking about having more money/resources than Bezos, but just enough money/resources to pay a motivated person somewhere in his vincinity to throw him off a cliff.
@shuro @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social That’s what I say, any economic system designed by humans with the best of intentions is more than likely to be corrupted, by…humans. An easy example is Social Security in the USA. Almost from the start it was undermined, robbed the money taken from it for other purposes. Now it’s in trouble and the GOP wants to kill it. We’ll see how that goes. 😳
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@wakame @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 > I would imagine this to happen all the time
Because exploitation by definition means gaining vastly more resources and it is kind of hard to topple much stronger opponent?
Also these structures are complicated and diverse. It is not like there's just some lone tower with an usurper sitting in it.
E.g. if some people somewhere in the world are unhappy with Bezos then to topple him they'd have to take on the entire US.
@wakame @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social @shuro I would describe it as taking advantage especially if you think by virtue of individual talents, you deserve much much more. Groups decide they are better because of their achievements and that includes placing others in physical or economic bondage because they can. The more comfortable and larger the tribe gets... Capitalism in the last 60yrs has become atrocious as those at the top think they should live like kings.
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@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom @shuro
True. But then again: If humans are inherently exploitative, why not create a group of your own and topple the current group?
I would imagine this to happen all the time if that precondition holds.
The dominating group/class needs military or police to keep the masses at bay?
Now we have an armed group of inherently exploitative people with no natural enemies...
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@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom @shuro
Even if humans were inherently exploitative... it would be in every persons self interest to build a system that minimizes exploitation.
Bad news: You forgo the 0.001% chance of being the exploiter.
Good news: There is also no 99.999% chance you are the exploited.
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
