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[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Could you throw this back in the fryer? I think I see a few uncompressed pixels.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

LaTeX spitting out an immaculate pdf with carefully calculated text distribution and vectorized fonts just to have it printed and scanned by the camera on a razr flip phone:

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

A critique of communism based on "human nature" is just a self-own by the West.

[–] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

I would have called bs, but you used LaTeX so it must be true.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago

The New York Times will pick this up with a title "academic definitively disproves communism".

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 23 points 10 months ago (6 children)

"Communism has yet to be achieved" "doesn't work"

I'm not a communist, but this is weak af.

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 32 points 10 months ago

Rabbits are completely incapable of surviving!, see every time we drop a rabbit into an enclosed space filled with wolves, they get eaten, it just proves that only carnivores are able to survive.

Oh hang on we need to drop more herbavores into our carnivore cages because we have to keep propping up these carnivores.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It says "foolproof," duh.

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My bad!

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We good.

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Thank fuck!

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Ngl, I was a bit worried for a moment, too.

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[–] BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I agree communism is an impossible dream. Socialism is much more obtainable

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

And by socialism you mean what? The Nordic model?

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[–] petersr@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry, I don't know how to put this more politely and still correctly: What the hell is that crazy article?

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 points 10 months ago (21 children)

Pure capitalism hasn’t ever been tried either.

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[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 8 points 10 months ago (19 children)

Please define pure capitalism

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[–] tourist@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

it's regular capitalism but without pesky things like "environmental laws" and "human rights"

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -4 points 10 months ago (17 children)

Letting the free hand of the market do its thing unfettered by government regulations.

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[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

That's a fast trip to feudalism.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It’s like you took The Road to Serfdom as gospel at 17 and then turned your brain off ever since. Just a babe in the wood.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

In my dreams there are no woods just businesses as far as the eye can see all selling you your greatest dreams.

Like Times Square but everywhere.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

That's a good bit

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The problem is that you still think those are realizable dreams when they’re not. You may as well dream of owning a flying unicorn.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

If the government wasn’t tying the hands of corporations through regulations and if there was enough consumer demand they definitely would be selling flying unicorns.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

You’re already in fantasy land, so sure, why not. Also the flying unicorns fart rainbows.

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[–] blaue_Fledermaus@olio.cafe 7 points 10 months ago

free market means consumers are free to choose where to buy from, it absolutely requires government regulations.

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Is this just anarcho capitalism?

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[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Using government issued currency? Is it still capitalism then?

So you're OK with corporations having the power over your life instead? Just allow them to pollute your drinking water or allow them to put whatever they want in your food? You want to try those things?

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I wish people would just think this though a bit.

Do you think corporations want to kill their customers?

No they want them to be rich, happy and healthy so they keep coming back and spending more money.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

No they want them to be rich, happy and healthy so they keep coming back and spending more money.

It’s like cigarette companies never existed. Babe in the wood.

You may not be a parody account but you may as well be.

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 10 months ago

they want them to be rich, happy and healthy so they keep coming back and spending more money.

See there's the problem right there. They don't need customers to be any of those things to suck every last cent out of them. Corporations would love nothing more than becoming a monopoly on human essentials like food, water, housing, etc... because people will go to great lengths to afford food whether they like it or not.

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[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

The problem is for each company that thinks of long term, you have 10 companies that only thinks of short term.

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[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 9 points 10 months ago

Corporations want one thing, profits.

If you can make profit by enslaving people, cutting corners with health and safety standards, and polluting the environment, they will. If they don't, they'll get "out competed" by the companies that do and drive the "inefficient" companies out of business. Then we get monopolization which we can't do anything about because that's regulation.

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[–] for_some_delta@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago*

Let's examine laissez-faire capitslism on Lemmy. Trivially, how did the "invisible hand" become the "free hand"? That feels like a mix of "invisible hand" and "free market".

How does such a system overcome "might makes right"? Adam Smith mentions the natural monopoly of kelp farms in Scotland. Who keeps the market free when I can use force to take over such a natural monpoly?

Thereby, I should be able to expand my holdings through force and regulate commerce on my land sort of like... a state? This corresponds with Nozick's minimal state responsible for a monopoly on violence. Is such a state required for your unfettered system?

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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago

There's no capitalism without government, because without a military and police force the rich can't enforce their own profitability

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes it has. It was so shitty that all the capitalist countries had to introduce bandages like welfare and social safety nets to avoid collapsing from just how bad of an idea capitalism is.