both of yall and the creator of the image above are skating past the questions of labor as private property aka wage slavery and wealth concentration. im just letting yall know that those who critique capitalism are not talking about anything on that list but instead concerned with the fact that labor, housing, health, and policy are commodified under capitalism to create terrible conditions for youth and families to thrive as well as a massive wealth gap between those at the top and us. only a state forged by the CEOs maintains that contradiction.

marxist economics emerged as a critique to the 2 class caste system (the class that hoards capital via the commodification of labor and policy and the working class AKA the haves and the have nots). by regurgitating conservative talking points about what marxism is or isnt and putting me in a category of not being able to think outside of the "shell" of capitalism, you're displaying an inability to engage in a rigorous debate about models of production in society. only when structural incentives change in these production models will the state dissolve and the world move beyond capitalism / socialism to something better. economic freedom should not be reserved only for the capitalists. the laborers deserve it too. we deserve a choice in selling our labor to a CEO, the epitome of centralized power, or using it to better our communities.

that whole absolutism about there being no alternative to capitalism is also disingenous. global capitalism has been mad unstable in the last couple hundred years. along with periodic recessions caused by the excess surplus in production, it had to be saved by SOCIALISM during the great depression via the new deal as well as the 07 - 08 financial crisis via bank bailouts. within these "cycles" of capitalism lies turmoil and tragedy for the every day family. i know people that know people that killed themselves when they lost everything in 07-08.

the puppet masters are the CEOs who exploit the economic model of production to maintain a hegemony over the world and its institutions. these are the same puppet masters that inspired facist dictators through Latin America, Europe, and southeast Asia over the last century to weaponize the state to maintain a two class caste system (laborer aka exploitee and employer/state aka exploiters) in their coutries and squash all dissent.

both of yall and the creator of the image above are skating past the questions of labor as private property aka wage slavery and wealth concentration. im just letting yall know that those who critique capitalism are not talking about anything on that list but instead concerned with the fact that labor, housing, health, and policy are commodified under capitalism to create terrible conditions for youth and families to thrive as well as a massive wealth gap between those at the top and us. only a state forged by the CEOs maintains that contradiction.

marxist economics emerged as a critique to the 2 class caste system (the class that hoards capital via the commodification of labor and policy and the working class AKA the haves and the have nots). by regurgitating conservative talking points about what marxism is or isnt and putting me in a category of not being able to think outside of the "shell" of capitalism, you're displaying an inability to engage in a rigorous debate about models of production in society. only when structural incentives change in these production models will the state dissolve and the world move beyond capitalism / socialism to something better. economic freedom should not be reserved only for the capitalists. the laborers deserve it too. we deserve a choice in selling our labor to a CEO, the epitome of centralized power, or using it to better our communities.

that whole absolutism about there being no alternative to capitalism is also disingenous. global capitalism has been mad unstable in the last couple hundred years. along with periodic recessions caused by the excess surplus in production, it had to be saved by SOCIALISM during the great depression via the new deal as well as the 07 - 08 financial crisis via bank bailouts. within these "cycles" of capitalism lies turmoil and tragedy for the every day family. i know people that know people that killed themselves when they lost everything in 07-08.

the puppet masters are the CEOs who exploit the economic model of production to maintain a hegemony over the world and its institutions. these are the same puppet masters that inspired facist dictators through Latin America, Europe, and southeast Asia over the last century to weaponize the state to maintain a two class caste system (laborer aka exploitee and employer/state aka exploiters) in their coutries and squash all dissent.

our critique of capitalism is the inefficient use of resources (including LABOR), not the lack of infinite resources, which labor isnt. capitalism, the current system of distribution of surplus, has been extremely unbalanced for a long time. hours of labor should be used for the betterment of the community, not the surplus of a single CEO. the quality of life measures you are describing (telecomm infrastructure) are a single bullet point in a long list of quality of life measures by the WHO. in the u.s. more is spent on health care per person than other countries and they have the worst health outcomes. price of health care has gone UP, health outcomes has gone DOWN. CEO profit continues to skyrocket. corporate landlords keep housing out of reach for families, leading to an increase in folk sleeping on the street. wealth has not been this concentrated in the world since the years leading up to the great depression. this is the distribution of surplus energy you defend?

housing and care for the sick and babies are unavoidable fundamental elements of people's lives that are commodified and left to the market under capitalism. if capitalism wasnt demanding that we spend more time away from our families than in the home with them? would places like the u.s. have as many single parent households as they do right now? would there be a need to institutionalize the elderly or developmentally disabled in homes if capitalism didnt demand an army of wage slaves spend the majority of their limited time in existence physically building a fortune for the CEOs? its inhumane to boil human beings down to hours of wage slave labor for the CEO's profits and disengenuous to use words like liberty to justify it as if people have a choice to participate in the labor or not.

because the image you shared doesnt touch on any of this, it wont help any critic of capitalism understand why capitalism is not the problem in society today. capitalism and its agents, pure or crony, seek to build a profit off the backs of others just like the plantation owners.

Good morning, frens! Wanted to share my moon photo from last night with my phone. Still learning how to use it.

Is theft violence?

What you are describing is not about capitalism or other systems, it's way more fundamental than that. Youre describing having two conflicting need, scarce resources, and limited time: "spend a week generating resources I save for the future" vs "use saved resources while I care of a sick loved one this week" - whether the former one here is working on your own farm, building your own shack, volunteering at the community center (to "earn" social trust), doing a task for someone else, or going to a factory to get paid for hourly labor.

There's no escaping the fact that one (or a collective) must generate a surplus of energy to store if one wants to be able spend any time NOT merely generating energy 100% of their time. Either that surplus is owned by individuals and they're free to generate it and use it how they see fit, or it's owned by some collective entity. In the latter case, some system for the contribution, distribution and physical protection of the shared savings is required - and there's no way to make those systems in such a way that's fair to all and not liable to capture and prone to violence.

You're not critiquing capitalism, you're upset at the existence of the fundamental mathematics of scarce resources. I agree - it's a bummer that we don't have infinite resources. But we don't. and we have to find the best way to handle that fact in a way that doesn't result in constant conflict.

For what it's worth, technological development driven by the engine of profit-seeking capitalism - stunted though it is by State intervention - is brining about the closest thing we've ever seen to "infinite resources". Quality of life goes up while prices come down. A smartphone from 10 years ago is basically free now while it was mind-blowing when it came out. Strangers can have conversations about capitalism across the globe at light speed without censorship. A relatively "poor" kid by today's standards can start a podcast nearly for free... We should expect this to continue to the limits of physics - IF we let it and don't fuck it up with collectivism. You want your infinite resources and perfect equity? Embrace progress and private property.

i just dont agree that nobody is enslaved to a paycheck. people dont have a choice to not go to work when they got kids or a sick parent at home. not being able to afford housing is not a choice. when folks critique capitalism, we are critiquing the fact that we have to sell our labor to a capitalist for wages to sustain ourselves and those we are socially responsible for.

im all for the abolition of the state that maintains class antagonism but its disengenous to let these CEOs off so easily considering the wealth gap has only increased and programs for the people have been dialed back in return for socialism for the capitalists (more capitalism) in the form of tax cuts and other favorable conditions for the mixing of "labor with resources" AKA the accumulation of CAPITAL. wealth has not been this concentrated since the years before the great depression. people are not so free as you are suggesting.

anarchocapitalist libertarian types like rothbard seek to maintain the individual liberty to accumulate capital off the backs of their employees that labor for them. and not every state is like the united states, an oligarchy carefully crafted to shield capitalists from any accountability for their individual profit motives AKA socialism for the capitalists. its a state born from european colonization, the mass enslavement and purging of non whites, expropriation of indigenous lands, and imperial domination. where is the justice for all those who had their individual liberties trampled upon by the capitalists in the name of a profit motive? those who critique capitalism are critiquing the master slave relationship between those with accumulation of capital and those without.

the state is also not the only licensing entity for professions. i.e. cisco, bar association, etc. another example of corporations empowered by the state to create optimal market conditions for their machine to continue to accumulate capital of the backs of laborers. licensing systems are just as much about who they are trying to keep out of professions as much as they are about getting people into them.

i have only played the games but the whole Metro 2033 mythos is fascinating in the way that it presages this idea that apocalypse will include some kind of very powerful, telepathic creatures who have tall stature, big heads and appear very selectively and carefully

it's not a new story, really, but it's fascinating... i love playing the game, getting immersed in the tunnels and the freezing above ground but i don't think that humans have these stories about this coming doom without having heard them from creatures like the Dark Ones and i think that the biblical Angels are one and the same

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mmmm agree with you there that most of us are def not free. i dont think the state is doing the rigging though. historically capitalists created the current system by rigging it via lobbying and campaign donations...and by enslaving everyone to a paycheck. master => slave, lord ==> serf, employer => employee. hasnt always been that way, dosnt have to be now. we want democratically ran workplaces, not despots profitting off our backs.

hmmm when we say capitalism is the problem, what we are getting at is the mass wage enslavement of the working/employee class by the capitalists/the employers i.e. those who hoard capital, business owners, the state and the actors that make up its apparatus). selling your labor to a capitalist is not voluntary because if you dont you'll end up on the street. all the state does is maintain a low minimum wage for the capitalists to be able to keep their profits and pay off the politicians, thus keeping our collective liberation from being achieved.

hmmm is labor considered a private economic good?

How would jewelry that hides a private key work?

If we want to have user specified trust score for every person they interact with, how do we avoid Google Circles fate?

The UX needs to be super simple, intuitive and fast.

What sort of labels might we categorize users under?

Something about what you're describing reminds me of Ghost in the Shell.

Basically a VM that exists everywhere and I'd assume uses a private key similar to nostr?

Definitely following the project, man.🤙

The wizardry of tech always amazes me. It really is like magic. If you can imagine it, you can build it.

It's the ultimate form of expression, IMHO. I do data conversions. Not as flashy as software development, but I always get a kick out of flipping data around like it's a rubix cube. It's nerd stuff... but it pays the bills.