camelbeard

I knew what community this was, but what real alternative do you suggest? How is anarchy going to actually work?

Hmm I just found this https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

I'll give it a read tomorrow as my kids will wake me up in 6 hours...

Don't get me wrong I'm all for a better system but it's not that simple.

Like communism sounds nice, but if you don't do it on a global scale you still have the problem of other countries trying to influence elections or referendums, wars would still be started etc.

Capitalism with a lot or guard rails seems like the most realistic option. Maybe a mix of systems could work, where people that work for a company automatically become part owner or something.

A system where the government has full control over everything is going to lead to authoritarianism.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We can probably make some positive changes with better democratic systems. For example no 2 party system, but a combination of coalitions and ranked voting.

I'm not an expert in any way, but just saying capitalism bad, without any real alternative isn't going to do anything.

I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

I feel pretty good about that

Go to the govt? Really? In Japan there is no tipping culture, in fact a tip is seen as an insult. Do you really think that has anything to do with their government? Well maybe the exception is that the US allows this BS by not having a decent minimum wage for any job.

Second you completely ignore parts of my response, so if you need to tip the full amount, why is is fair to tip lower at a cheaper restaurant? These people work just as hard.

But let's go even deeper, you say I'm selfish because these people provide a service? So what? My mailman provides a service, the roadworker that fixed the road I use every day provides a service? Why is tipping even a thing? I need to pay extra for someone doing the job they got hired for?

Don't feel sorry, thanks for the wall of text. I also watched some videos on communism and socialism, from what I understand we never really had communism only socialism, but socialism could lead to communism.

But from what I also understand is that all socialism counties had massive problems with corruption and authoritarianism. So I'm not really convinced that communism could ever work. But thanks for the reply anyway!

Sorry bucket is full of seamen

OK so what's the alternative? Communism?

Like hosest question, how would that work?

Redistributing the wealth sounds easy when we talk about billionaires. But what about people like me that make an above average salary because we also put in the effort, like a degree, learning new skills outside work to get better at work, etc.

I have friends that never cared about money and basically did the absolute minimum at work, so part of my savings should go to them? That also does not sound fair.

And what about leadership? Is the leader a dictator because that's a hard no for me. Do we still use the democratic system? Because we already have an issue with idiots voting for populist parties. If we all "share" the wealth that is going to get much worse. Don't let those brown people in they will steal all our shared wealth (offcourse that's not even true, but people will vote like this anyway). People voted for brexit because they all believed a buch of lies, it's unfortunately too easy to manipulate people.

Is there even a real example of communism where it worked for a long time, without leaders getting corrupt or production and GDP going down?

To me the more European version of capitalism sounds like the best system we have so far. If you have a system with good free education (giving people equal opportunities), strong consumer and environmental protection, plus strong workforce protections, high minimum wage, etc.

Just so you know when they say invitro that means in a petri dish, maybe a better example than a gun is bleach, yeah it works against any virus, but it will also kill you.

Sounds like my uncle's roulette strategy, that always works, 50% of the time.

72% of statistics are just made up

Well actually... it turned out that is probably true.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-001403_EN.html

The thing about it costs about the same as Spotify is not really true. I have been using Spotify family for a long long time (maybe 10 years). I use it with 5 other "family" members and we split the costs.