Look, I'm all for dismantling capitalism, but you do your cause disservice if you criticize something, act like you have the answers, and then don't deliver. If you don't have the answers just say so up front.
agent_nycto
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Why would I pollute the guild of Mexico?
Phantasmagoric
Not really elaborating on that much... Not everyone can afford to drive out to the country to work on a farm for food, and a lot of people don't have lawns.
Cornshucker MacWoodshoe
Wait she's British so it would probably be Corningfrumple MacWallibootenshiretonwotsalldisden
I mean, fuck it. If you like recording stuff and posting it then go for it.
Totally get it, super on board, but uh, to circle back to the here and now for a second, we kinda need food? So the situation as it is right now really blows.
Some people are joking about $70 salads, but also there is a point in there. Farming sucks ass a job and if you paid people enough to incentivise folks to do it, that's something not a lot of farmers can do, especially small ones.
So what would an ideal solution be with the technology we have now?
I've decided to actively take the flag back from conservatives. There are some good ideals and good people in this country, and good people who fought for those ideals. I'm not proud of most of what the government has done and all of what it is doing now, but I can be proud of the people who want to get along with everyone and fight for diversity and freedom and the good things that should be fought for.
I dislike words with the nasal E sound, specifically meal. I don't know what but for the last three years I can't stand the word meal. "Oh I hope you had a good MEEEEEEEeeeeal"
Outer Worlds. The premise was so great. A criticism of restrictive hyper capitalism in space? With an art Nouveau flair? Made by people who made Fallout? Sounded right up my alley!
But it just sucks! The intro is trying to be like Rick and Morty, you don't personally have to deal with any restriction from the capitalistic society (hell at least BioShock threw in pay toilets once in a while) and the story just didn't get me at all. You're just kind of there. You don't feel like you're rebelling against the system or indulging it, you just are an observer. You don't feel like an oppressed worker you feel more like a documentary crew. But even then it doesn't really feel like the situation is really bad. And there isn't really any tutorial to speak of. Sure, if you have played games a lot you know pretty much how everything works, but the mechanics are just dumped in your lap.
I'm just some schmuck on the Internet and I could've written a way better start to this game that lets you actually feel something.
When a fan made rap video makes you feel more of the alleged theme than the actual game does, then you've kinda screwed up.
Thiel has worried that Western civilization had entered a period of long-term stagnation in the 1970s which will continue unless there is a radical shake-up. This stagnation has many dimensions: lower economic growth, fewer world-changing scientific discoveries, and a general cultural malaise.
Imagine looking back at the proud of time where there was literally the most advances in the wildest technology and thinking it's stagnation. It was from a time period where people remembered refrigeration as new and exciting to the time where your phone has more computing power than the ones that put people on the moon, and it's in your freaking pocket, and say that technology stagnated.
As for the lower economic growth and the "stagnating" culture, that's squarely on the shoulders of corporations, and therefore, billionaires.
"Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining." Teddy Roosevelt
I'm not saying to not discuss it. I'm not saying to stay a slave.
When were talking about people needing to eat, though, you're gonna need some solutions if you want to enact change. No one can do a revolution on an empty stomach, and if you're going to hand wave basic survival, you're not going to get anyone to follow you.