see, this is the problem - I've avoided thinking about politics forever, and now I'm not sure about the main concepts 😂
I've always equated high taxes with socialism - so long as those taxes go towards services and redistribution of wealth.
OK - so what *is *socialism? (the main tenets)
very interesting points!
I've just started a non-profit (to try to reduce/undermine surveillance capitalism) - and we'll probably build software along the way. That is entrepreneurship, but not profit focused. However, we would need to be funded and paid to make it work.
How should I frame this in your way of thinking?
ah... bugger. That's the link I used. I'll see if I can find another from the person who posted it.
e.g. there's this https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/ - is that being looked at by the people developing the protocol?
I'm trying to find out where the development is at right now for ActivityPub, specifically about data (posts) portability, and persistent IDs.
For the former I think that's fairly self-explanatory, I'm just trying to get a flavour of if it's a priority, who's working on it, what the anticipated timeline is etc. It's a clear advantage that ATproto has, so are we trying to close the gap?
By the latter I mean is there work happening to work towards us being able to have one ID that can be used to log in to any fediverse network (as per nostr)? This approach makes so much sense to me - is it even possible?
The link here to W3.org doesn't seem that up to date - but I'm not that knowledgable so may have misinterpreted that site. So I'm looking for education on this subject 😊
For Hitler and Nazi Germany it certainly was a way to prepare for expansionist wars: https://www.richardjevans.com/lectures/autarky-fantasy-reality/
I was just in Denmark recently and it seems like that's what they have: a capitalist society but regulated by very socialist policies like (really) high taxes. Makes sense to me - I'm probably just not using the right terminology.
Naomi Klein's book 'Doppelganger' is good on this topic...
- Billionaire Koch votes for dangerous narcissistic clown with terrible business sense
- Clown is elected so Billionaire Koch gets clown using terrible business sense to wreck global economy
- As a result, billionaire Koch loses a butt ton of money in the stock market
That does all sound much more equitable. But don't you just end up with a different 1% controlling everything, as per every communist state in the past? And isn't that because not everyone is a worker - you have to have the admin layer at the top, who are deciding what is 'best for society', and they can (and due to human nature usually do) most decide what is best for themselves.
What you describe sounds MUCH better for the majority of people - but I worry about the unaccountability of the ruling admin layer.
Does communism/socialism have rules for mitigating that (which haven't been followed by communist states, but could be)?