Again, I already understand what you're saying, I simply don't accept it. Why didn't you just start with the unbounded market capitalism solves everything approach? Would've made it easier to spot bad faith.

I haven't missed the point, I'm already actively arguing against it. You're attempting to hand-wave away examples on how capitalism is worse than the systems of exploitation that came before it.

There is nothing inherently different from capitalism, to any prior system, in the context of abuse of human rights, or however you wish to frame that particular problem.

This is entirely reductive and sets you up for a head-in-the-sand defense of capitalism, where you don't have to engage with evidence because golly gee, people are just gonna always be evil and if you sorta squint at history, you can just smear a whole bunch stuff together and pretend that it's basically the same.

This rambling paragraph about "...the problem that has plagued humanity..." is completely incoherent. You fail to even attempt to describe what this problem is, yet then proceed to assign all of our ills to it, before concluding that no solution for it will ever be found. Is it the fabled boogeyman who comes to visit us over and over, turning our best laid plans against us every time? I suspect it is your pessimism for humanity that is the problem in your understanding.

I don't know enough about communism to talk about it, but I've been building a reading list to learn more this year. I do know that there have been serious atrocities committed by Communist forces. I'm sure there are lots of estimates and comparisons on body counts for both isms, but I also think that a number like "hundreds of millions" should have a little more evidence to support it other than vibes.

A simple Google search finds this entry about mass killings under communism. Estimates at the highest are 148 million for all communist regimes combined. I don't think you know enough specifics to speak on this issue. When you bring numbers into a discussion they need to be grounded in something other than your feelings.

You aren't breaking anything with this basic view. Human society isn't monolithic; there have been, and will continue to be, many different forms of it.

Conquest and wars occur throughout time, but corporate firms, investment banks, stock markets, ownership and commodification of land, and other hallmarks of capitalism are more recent.

This lazy argument shows a defeated attitude that we should just accept things as they are, or worse, that it is in our nature to be terrible to one another, when history actually shows more evidence of cooperation than strife.

The microblog is generally correct here. Your attempt at reading between the lines or whatever is off target.

They're referring to mercantile capitalism, which did come about around this time, though you could quibble that the Dutch technically beat the English with the Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam stock exchange. However (and I'm going to grossly oversimplify this), the machination of using investment capital to extract wealth was pioneered by the English following the collapse of feudalism, caused by the black plague, and the war against Spain.

Greed obviously wasn't new, but the concept of using wealth to acquire more wealth was novel. Before this, landowners just piled their wealth up or used it to buy luxury goods.

Well that seems corrupt af

It most certainly is not

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To be effective as a cop, you have to operate close to the edge.

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Workflow on Linux: Whatever I want. Workflow on MacOS: Whatever they want, and if I want to change something, I have to install a third party tool reverse engineered from their private API that will break on every update.

He's had insane shit with animals his whole life. In his teens he had a hawk that went everywhere with him. Check out the latest Behind the Bastards series on him it's fuckin cray

One of the first things I noticed when I asked ChatGPT to write some terraform for me a year ago was that it uses modules that don't exist.

I was there to witness it's majesty. Probably a year or two after it actually happened, but still I remember none pizza left beef