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  • This is just copium.

    To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.


  • You’re not wrong. Obama won because he was a corporatist and easily manipulated and ran on empty slogans, so he had the backing of the mainstream. Harris did too, but AOC won’t have that backing.

    That also means she could run on actual popular policies. Something Trump did. His voters now kinda got the same scam with him than the progressives got with Obama lol.

    But there is deeply entrenched propaganda in the media and the minds of people. Like you’d need a movement that comes together. But you can see the liberals in this thread would balk at any tankie demanding and end to US or EU imperialism lol, just like they will balk at putting another women on the ticket.


  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldKapitalism
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    16 days ago

    Yeah absolutely. Material incentives are needed, but they don’t need to be so high, just fair. Certainly not a monopoly over predictable technological progress (more or less predictable) that allows them to prevent people using that progress. Especially since that monopoly is being captured by capitalists.

    And incentives can and should be non-materialist too. Think of a oscar or grammy show for the best new inventions. Or something similar to crowdsourcing platforms where people can vote on what inventions they want to see rewarded and implemented. A bank that can finance risky ventures like this instead of concentrating more wealth. We have more tools and possibilities today and we need an updated economic theory that can use these tools.

    The idea of a lone inventor that can profit of his own invention is sort of like fantasy economics today. I believe it comes from comics and superhero movies lol. Reality is privatizing profit and socializing the costs of previous research and slowing down implementation of progress.


  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldKapitalism
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    People, in general, do not work for material gain. They work because they have to in order to live, procreate and raise their children. People want a minimum amount of prosperity and economic safety. Beyond that, they want to work in a way and a place that fulfills them. Work itself is fun when done right, and working with others is awesome. Not even the “smart ones” or whatever work mainly for material gain in general. There are an overwhelming amount of counter examples to any variation of your claim. It would be more accurate to say people work for fame and glory, or to get laid (again reproductive success).

    But even if what you said was true, it does not justify a complete monopoly. You could have something like “congrats you patented a new idea - if it catches on you will get a free house as a price!”

    Of course you know all this and are just arguing facetiously. If “the person who can solve climate change” does anything but trade stocks they would contradict your argument. There is no money in inventing climate solutions. But nice insult to the people who are working on things like that.

    Your actual argument is that we reward gambling and non-productive activity too much. That the smartest people are not working towards the survival or wellbeing of humanity, but for… crumbs off the table of the capitalists. That our economic system is not efficient in working towards our shared human values.


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    20 days ago

    Patents mean genocide.

    They slow down adoption of innovation and raise prices to levels the market can afford. With the existential need to change and improve like 50% of all industrial processes, this results in too slow change. It never mattered if climate change is anthropogenic or not.