There are lots of other 
moments there.
"Single payer economies leads to bad things like Bolshevism and Stalin"
@UlyssesT@hexbear.net Let's hear your rant
There are lots of other moments there.
"Single payer economies leads to bad things like Bolshevism and Stalin"
@UlyssesT@hexbear.net Let's hear your rant
I will step in for Ulysses in the mean time :)
It truly fascinates me how these super mega-brained silicon tech geniuses (in all their genius) just can’t seem to reckon with the fact that capitalism has left a trail of blood like no other. But what are the “bad things?” Worker autonomy? Redistribution? Oppressed people taking back power? Can’t you just admit that you’re arguing from a moral framework at this point? Odd how no one ever does. It just has to be the case that anything but capitalism is evil and bad as a consequence of simply challenging existing ideology.
Jesus fuck. Are we really going to pretend like it’s possible to quantify something as a complex as a monopoly? Economics is not a science no matter how hard you try to make it so, and economists will eventually cave to this if you dig deep enough. I think they’re renowned in the STEM world for the pretty remarkable feat of enrolling in graduate-level courses as a high school student, but they are very clearly not objective. How the fuck can you possibly make a claim about the veracity of something leading to a monopoly? As I’ve said on this site before, I’m the furthest thing from a philosopher, but how is that not an absurd claim?
All the proof you need to know that our collective understanding of intelligence means jack shit. I sometimes think “Yeah, I guess since there’s this general trend of certain people taking a test annd answering logically/computationally complex questions with ease, maybe IQ is somewhat valid.”
But then I think back to people like Hawking and Einstein who would’ve unquestionably performed well on those types of tests but had an entirely different worldview. And I really can’t help but think it all comes down to philosophy, namely ethics and what we ought to do as human beings.
These thoughts brought to you by a brain that just finished reading Bullshit Jobs so I would like to thank David Graeber for his help with this post.
Yer not using enough emotes nor repeating how detached from reality and deep into their own asses these reptiles are to fill Ulysses void
I've been busy packing and getting ready to ship out in the next few days, and because moving sucks as always, my head's full of bees. All I can do is gesture frantically at what the fuck these servile cheerleaders for billionaires are doing now, though they've been doing the same thing since at least the so-called "Extropian" movement of the early 90s.
What the fuck is an extropian?
You got decades of lore about these reptiles eh
"Extropian" was the 90s era term that capital-R "Rationalists" called themselves back then. The implication was a giant "nuh uh" to mortal limits and human limitations, including entropy itself as the name suggests.
At a casual outer circle level, I used to be one of them. I used to attend the so-called "futurology" conferences in my local area. I watched them get fully bought out by billionaires and I saw the military-industrial complex set up shop there.
But according to Palo Alto Uber Alles the MIC and Silicon Valley goes back like 50 years
Ah, the Hubris Society
I don't doubt that, but it wasn't so brazen as basically military recruitment booths right at the conventions until around the time I was so disgusted that I stopped going. That was also when weird blood orgies involving "chipping" demonstrations right on stage were in vogue. It was like the weird shit you see on the "carousel" on the old Logan's Run.
They benefit directly from the system. To question it would mean losing their cushy 6 figure salary where they get to spend all day googling "how do I code this?" and feeling superior to us mere mortals who don't understand the incredible magic of "programming." They have a vested self-interest in defending the status quo, they're modern intelligentsia.