• KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    51
    9 months ago

    Lib - "Markets make everything cheaper, which is good."

    Leftist - "But if there is a labor market, won't that make labor cheaper?"

    Lib - "Yes, and that is good."

    Leftist - "How is that good?"

    Lib - "It leads to more profits."

    Leftist - "But why is it good to have more profits?"

    Lib - "Because a good country is when corporations make profits, and the more profits the corporations make, the gooder the country is."

    • Egon [they/them]
      hexbear
      13
      9 months ago

      Love to spend insane amounts of resources on creating a phone that has the same tech and capabilities as all the other phones, but I can't just get access to their research and they can't just get access to mine.
      Love to spend insane amount of time working up a cure to covid, but I can't share my research with others and they can't share it with me, yay this is awesome.
      Love to spend insane amount of resources working out how to make people want to buy a sugary drink and then spend even more to make them want to buy my drink specifically.
      Love to build empty houses and love to create 1.21 times more food than we need.
      Love to do all this as the world is burning and people are starving.
      Capitalism is the most efficient distribution of resources

      • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
        hexbear
        20
        9 months ago

        Damn this third person never heard about the reserve army of labor, the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, and like all of American history showing the hollowing out of working class power. JUST INVEST YOUR NON-EXISTENT SAVINGS INTO NEW COMPANIES ITS SO EASY. And please how will your worker coop survive in this hellscape with a bourgeois state over it? It will be outcompeted and swallowed immediately by corporations who have no qualms over worker or environmental rights. This isn't china, Huawei (a worker coop) is villified and attacked at every turn here. xigma-male You know maybe you have a point, let's be more like China.

    • @wewbull@feddit.uk
      hexbear
      4
      9 months ago

      Kid: "Mommy, what's a strawman?"

      Mother: "Take a look a this post here. See how they speak for both sides of the argument?"

      Kid: "Yes, they're arguing with themselves."

      Mother: "Exactly, and they can make their opponent say what they want."

      Kid: "That seems like an easy way to make your argument look good"

      Mother: "Yes. It's like fighting someone who can't put up any resistance. They could be made of straw. A strawman. "

      Kid: "Oh, I see."

      • Egon [they/them]
        hexbear
        4
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        You didn't engage with their argument, but good try nonetheless. It's nice to see you cling to a fallacy rather than engage in good-faith discussion of an argument clearly illustrated for you to relate to.

        • @wewbull@feddit.uk
          hexbear
          1
          9 months ago

          There is no point in engaging with someone playing such games. They're not going to be convinced when they're already putting words in the opposition's mouth.

          • Egon [they/them]
            hexbear
            3
            9 months ago

            They're not going to be convinced

            A good faith discussion is not about convincing another, but instead about having an open exchange of information.

            They're not going to be convinced when they're already putting words in the opposition's mouth.

            They're illustrating a point which you failed to engage with. In no way did it put words in your mouth. The fact that you choose to be insulted by the way they decided to illustrate that point rather than engage with them in good faith says a lot more about you.

            To reiterate: You didn't engage with their argument, but good try nonetheless. It's nice to see you cling to a fallacy rather than engage in good-faith discussion of an argument clearly illustrated for you to relate to.
            Do better.