daveB

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I was thinking about Adam Smith the other day. He is considered the father of modern economics. Many of his philosophies focus on division of labour and free and open trade. He is also credited with establishing many core ideas included in Capitalism which some view as pure evil and others view as good for everyone.

A few questions:

  1. Does capitalism tend to gravitate towards fascist ideologies?
  2. Is a system that generates wealth intrinsically bad?
  3. Who should oversee the equal distribution of wealth in a society? Who decides what is fair?
  4. Adam Smith, Economist, Capitalist, or Fascist or all of the above?

Hopefully I have phrased things clearly. I realize I’m covering quite a few different topics. I have been recently studying philosophies of fascism to better understand the main ideas they promote.

 
[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Agreed, give people dignity and safety. We all need help sometimes

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just installed Brave on my Ubuntu OS on my laptop to replace Chrome. It is running better than chrome was so far. Is there a way to setup Brave to safeguard against some of things mentioned or should I go with something like DuckDuckGo instead?

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for this reply, quite a bit of information. I do very much appreciate Tolstoy’s insights into the Christian faith and philosophy. Those with a sincere and humble approach gain great insight into life I find.

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

That is quite the vault, thanks for sharing. I’m not sure how much time I will have to dig into it all but will try. Who do feel are your most reliable sources of information?

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you for sharing this. Tolstoy had a beautiful mind and it’s great to hear him wrestle with these ideas. He is on my list of writers to collect so thank you for sharing this. I thought I read somewhere that he found faith in Jesus Christ but I could be mistaken.

 

I know this is a children’s book but I bought it for me. It seemed very relevant to our present situation.

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

I have a couple varieties in this patch, a friend gave me some thornless ones but I like the berries on the thorny canes

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I usually wait until all the leaves fall off. Pruning can happen any time between late autumn to late winter. I leave some alone that are newer and chop the older crustier ones

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Must be a sweet computer

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Cool, sounds like what I’m going for. Thanks for your help

 
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[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Great, thanks for the help

[–] daveB@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I was using Instagram and threads mostly but was wanting to stop using Meta based apps. Someone posted about the fediverse so I started using mastodon and Pixelfed.

This is supposed to be a Reddit replacement is what some people said but I didn’t really use that before

 

This is my first post on here, just navigating a new platform, I like all the little communities, so fun

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