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tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
Providing busy work for people that to prop up Amazon’s selling boat loads of knock off garbage.

Amazing. Surely because “that’s how it worked in the past” isn’t the only option for social organization?

Why not stop believing in Bezos and solve our human problems generally?

Why not a mandate to provide education and healthcare and we provide THOSE jobs?

Because Bezos and Musk are able to get real access to politicians, resulting in the rubes being fed fiscal economic policy that continues to protect them.

The circular logic is mesmerizing.
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
That’s the fundamental problem with our culture generally.

The closer (figuratively speaking) to the big money and political power someone is the more comfortable they are.

And we all want to believe it’s a meritocracy. We’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
I’m not disputing the value of collective effort.

I’m disputing our implementation that favors minority capture of collective effort.

Why do I need to be a “company”?

We already have a system of collective effort called “government”.

Why another layer of abstraction?

Why must they run on grandpa’s fiscal beliefs, and previously brokered debt servicing and network effects?
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
This is a context sensitive point.

We’ve seen government be far more efficient and successful at “the fundamentals” than privatization.

Postal service, Medicare/caid, Social Security all financially stable, and logistically competent until meddled with politically to benefit a minority closest to the politicians.

I don’t want efficient government when it comes to species stability. I want reliable and resilient.

Let man-children speculate about reality without politically contrived economic uncertainty foisted upon everyone. I wasn’t a party to signing a contract that says I have to believe Musk and the rest are that much more worthwhile to humanity as decided by politically contrived fiscal economics.

If you all want to be kowtowed like teen girls at a Beatles concert, have at it. The majority just want to live their lives.
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
Why must the masses be tethered to a monopolized ephemeral value store?

None of us owe servitude to old debts, contracts, wives tales, sonnets, limericks, hymns, poems, stories.

When the world changes it does so because society decides there are different words to better represent its goals.

Laws are no longer based upon the words of Gods. The rich are not Gods. They don’t represent meritorious effort when they’re inheriting and being gifted wealth with no strings (see Trump admin and covid payouts, it’s still happening under Biden; he’s just less gaudy.)

Why not just logistical distribution of materials to boost communal health, etc.

The masses are already used to only being able afford a vacation every X months. Working off a home for X years.

Why do we still enable a minority to shrug off the same responsibility in deference to old contracts none of us are legally obligated to mind?
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
Why not let people employ each other where they are instead of importing grandpa’s beliefs about how money is produced?

It’s the workers doing that produce the real value, not a rich person holding capital they’ll only spend on us if we capitulate.

Why do we need the age old tale of a shared ephemeral store like religion and fiat finance when we see those things become monopolized and gamed by the previous generation every time?

We need to believe one old person is literally worth 100x the average person?

Who does that benefit?
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
The majority of his reviews are “average schmucks”.

Would they know if he’s wrong?
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
Stop optimizing for interoperability then.

Write your own operating system specific to hardware.

It’s either have the monolith for all or make it a black box so you’re special.

Personally I’d rather the resources be made available to all and not just cellar dweller squirrelly types.

What you have is a political problem: we optimize to reduce fiscal costs to protect aristocratic power.

If everyone wants to be highly atomic agents of self management, stop working for money.
tehWeeb
·5년 전·discuss
So what your saying is Facebook is a grocery store checkout?

Glad I deleted mine in 2010.