• plyth@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”

    What does that mean? I can read it in too many directions.

    IMO using the system in a way that abuses the system only perpetuates another system of abuse.

    That’s what currently is happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

    More competition is needed, more market economy, to make the system fair again. It’s not abusing the system to start a business.

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      3 days ago

      No, it’s just using the system as it is intended. But most businesses fail.

      We need to abolish the system.

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        2 days ago

        But most businesses fail.

        That’s ok. It’s possible to invest in more than one company.

        We need to abolish the system.

        And do what?

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          2 days ago

          Good old communism.

          No advertising, no stocks, no fucking with money at all.

          First step is to house and feed everyone, and build rails all over the world, to stop the car brain rot.

          Then we figure out what’s next.

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                2 days ago

                How do you think that can be implemented? Isn’t it easier to increase competition?

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                  2 days ago

                  Lol? How is that working right now?

                  Biggest companies consolidating and cutting jobs everywhere? It’s not a fluke.

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                    21 hours ago

                    How is that working right now?

                    We have Capitalism, not a free market economy. The elite has regulated some industries like medicine or weapons and is making disproportional profits which gives them money to buy politicians.

                    Let the companies cut jobs. The fewer workers in an industry the better. We went from 99% farmers to 3% which allows us to have our civilisation.

                    We don’t have 100% employment because of regulations. That greatly reduces negotiation power of the workers. If there is a shortage of jobs, use Keynes to create them.