If they outline their methodology and outcomes, if science indicates an economic system will maximize wellbeing for the most individuals in a society, it should be our system based on the information available. And it should change if new data supercedes the old.

Capitalism has proven to be incompatible with democracy over time and detrimental to any social contract. It’s a “die alone” economic system on a planet we need to care for and live together on. We ain’t getting to mars, we’re killing the planet the human habitability of the world we came from and this was super easy baby just don’t shit where you sleep mode and we keep proving we can’t even do that.

I’ll never understand people that denegrate the scientific community. They and their predecessors are the reason you aren’t going to be dead by 30, why we’re even able to bitch on the internet right now. The scientific method and community have done more for humanity in 500 years than every theologen and diety mankind has ever been inspired to pull out of their ass.

Capitalism will end in the next 50 years, either by murder of it or the mass ecological suicide it causes. It’s pathetic how many people that are willing to end the species so they can pretend they’ll be rich the rich assholes living on the poors backs one day.

Who will evaluate need and merit?

Doctors and academic performance records aka grades weighed by academics, not bloodsucking capitalist leeches.

Old man yells at developed nation from his shithole.

Trumpers only see Trumpers as “good people.” if they could press a button and watch everyone around them who isn’t one die in agony for the schaudenfreude of it, they would.

That’s why they’re trying to turn empathy into a character deficit and slur.

This is what separates them from everyone else. I’m an extreme leftist, something some low information Americans incorrectly paint as just as extreme as the MAGA cult, when I want that MAGA cult to have access to Healthcare based on need, higher Ed based solely on merit, conditionless housing and social supports, while they want me dead, and preferably painfully.

I pity them because they were made by for profit media propaganda meant to divide and profit.

They’re acting like Luigi broke out and started making the world a better place one capitalist at a time again.

allegedly

Bullshit, billionaires are too greedy and morally bankrupt to leave exploited money on the table.

They won’t close the highest producing stores and effectively kill a revenue stream out of conviction in something that isn’t money, because if they had any beliefs or values above “gimme gimme gimme moar moar moar” they wouldn’t be billionaires.

It’s not a matter of not needing it, no shit, they have a socially encouraged mental illness.

It would be better for the new socialist stores if they did vacate the market, but they won’t. They’ll even pull a Walmart and try to do some loss leaders to convince idiots that der free merket menes lower prices for as long as they can stomach it until they find a vector to make the state stores illegal and Jack those prices back up forever.

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I wish the office came with a mandate that they’d personally have to field constituent calls 4 hours a week.

But like so much else, they aren’t going to legislate accountability for themselves.

Another daily reminder that the straights, myself included, are not Ok.

It’s only about energy storage and will. We’ve had clean, safe nuclear designs for over half a century, it is purely greed that has deluded even many of those that claim to defend the environment that keeps us on the path to self annihilation.

Reminder that Chernobyl was doomed from the outset because it was made to serve two masters: power AND weapons grade enrichment.

Technology hasn’t been the bottleneck, greed has. I will never forget or forgive my species for priorities like these: Made solely to keep us addicted to the worst forms of power generation.

If it was an order of male monks found with 800 dead babies, “men are absolute monsters” would absolutely among the top comments.

Just the age we live in.

Completely fair.

For the record I am a socialist who thinks all billionaires and most to all centimillionaires are as mentally diseased as serial killers and far more effectively destructive to society than any serial killer that has ever walked the earth, and they all belong in mental health facilities for everyone else’s safety to protect us from their sociopathic avarice disease.

ChatGPT and the others have absolutely broken people, not because it has agency, but because in our dystopia of social media and (Mis)information overload, many just need the slightest push, and LLMs are perfect for taking those close to the edge off of it.

I see LLM use as potentially as a toxic to the mind is as something like nicotine is to the body. It’s not Skynet meaning to harm or help us, it’s an invention that takes our written thoughts and blasts back a disturbing meta reflection/echo/output of a humanity’s average response to it. We don’t seem to care how that will effect us psychologically when there’s profit to be made.

But there are already plenty of cases of murders and suicides with these as factors.

In philosophy, It’s a core concept called solipsism.

The encouraged answer to it is don’t think about it and best to move on, even within philosophy, because asking the questions that actually matter about the nature of the mind and existence, are a terrible drain on productivity and GDP, and those are most certainly real and totes important things that must exist 🤣

Ah yes solipsism, the principle that we cannot actually know… anything at all… beyond knowing that we ourself exist in some form because we are presently thinking about it, be it as an algorithm running in a simulation, or a brain in a jar being tortured with hallucinations on some 5th dimensional being’s shelf.

I remember chuckling to myself upon learning that the answer to this situation is just don’t think about it because it isn’t productive.

Problem with that is It seems like a perfectly rational argument against the pursuit of productivity.

Just like joining a military, some people are born sheep and need to cling to a rigid structure to thrive. Without it, you have all sorts of nasty consequences from people who can’t self-actualize and need to believe in being part of something magical that has a plan for them.

Not something I’d ever want for myself, but as I get older I’ve come to realize that there are many people, people that con artists like Reagan, Trump, McConnell, and every Mega Church leader ever, capitalize and prey on because they need to be told what to think to feel safe.

I don’t think the answer is to abolish the crutches of the weak minded, so much as for society through representative government to regulate what they teach to minimize the potential for turning the structure weak minds crave into a potential army of useful idiots for those that would coopt such movements.

Still miss baconreader

If only they were allowed to vote, would they still be the disenfranchised ones?

Trump is a witch confirmed.

I can be bribed into supporting that with king crab and salmon.