that’s what the rich will become in the next theoretical cycle of civilization.

On the surface, it sounds plausible. But if you dig into how the resources you mentioned are produced, the ones which would allow them to become kings, there’s a plot hole. The production can only be done in centralized factories where many workers labour. And the inputs for those factories are done in other factories where many workers labour. As long as such resources are required to maintain these fiefdoms, the rulers power would be constrained by labour power. And we know from history that when enough workers are out of a job, when enough live in poverty, workers organize to stop working and take over the factories. Then they start producing for themselves, instead of the rulers. Then the rulers end up with no guns or other technology needed to enforce their power. What’s worse for the prospects of the future would-be-kings, is that the theory which tells workers how to organize and what to do in such cases has been written, and tested, and it works. And so I think we’re likely gonna see more of that instead of new monarchies formed by former capitalist elites.

Yeah, many people, wealthy or not, do not understand what money is, or any other medium of exchange, and where their value comes from.

It helps them stay laying down while the Trump bus drives over them.

Scaled with Subscribed, then liberally subscribe to any and all communities I think I might be interested in. Check the Scaled + All firehose once in a while and subscribe to new communities if anything new shows up.

NYT’s title makes it out as if he was going to shoot others. He was going to shoot himself.

I got it from Archive.org. There was a monthly dump. I can’t easily find it but that’s where I got it from.

I did not have a sentence commutation for Kitara Ravache. She gorgeous but criminal af.

I keep a wiki copy as well as Reddit pre-fuckuspez. A Debian archive copy sounds like a good idea.

Capitalism does not require democracy. In fact democracy stands in the way of the incentives people who own significant capital have. Soooo, if democracy stands in the way of profit growth… it might have to go. 🥹 It happens gradually. We say there’s got to be a limit. They say OK and negotiate where the limit is. Sometime later they ask to renegotiate the limit a bit in their favour. We say, not a big deal, fine. Rinse and repeat until the limit has changed enough for them not to have to ask. They just try doing it without us noticing. Then at some point we start noticing. By then our democratic power is eroded to the point where shifting the limit in our favour is extremely difficult.

This is a ban by reddit, not a mod, right?

I’m really afraid of this political operator becoming the president if Trump croaks prematurely. This guy is all-charade and I think there’s a lot of supremacy behind it.

Price controls eh? I didn’t expect to see them arrive this early in the game. They’re a useful and sometimes necessary tool, but I doubt these knuckleheads would use them appropriately.

built-in Zigbee or Thread adapter, optional PoE

Wait what, Green has no radio?? I always assumed it’s got Zigbee.

So the old playbook that in part gave us Hamas. Surely nothing could go wrong with this plan.

Says here that it was decriminalized in 1997. Marriage, adoption, and many other rights aren’t legal today. And of course there’s discrimination and repression.

For many - probably. For some it may be different depending on some factors like the material base needed for their research, or their own ethnicity. There’s plenty of racism in the EU towards some and the recent resurgence of the right isn’t reassuring.

One doesn’t. At least not while bigotry is still a significant problem. Homosexuality was a crime in Canada till 1969.

There’s some benefits to settling in China but yeah. As the economy grows further and the population tightens it might become much more acceptable.

Can’t escape your material conditions. Doing this while having any significant unemployment would produce such a backlash. Especially if the social development hasn’t achieved the eradication of xenophobia yet.