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   rastinza@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:38:36 JST rastinza

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   @freeschool @freemo about the last point. In a communist economy the state decides how production is organised, how many people should be making bricks, how many people should be building cars and so on.
   It is not for profit in the sense that there is no individual gaining the profits of those factories. The factories may make a profit, it could then be decided whether to reinvest that in the same factory or somewhere else.
   It is the state to decide what the economy does, this means politicians, since they generally represent the state. Of course you can organise it in different ways: you don't necessarily need the prime minister to be there every day saying alright, the next week we need 50k bricks. You'll have comitees studying the economy and taking decisions along those lines.
   Then you may have factory directors who'll be tasked with executing those things. We need your factory to produce 50k bricks a month, here is some money employ the necessary people and buy necessary machinery. The factory director will receive a salary, it may be increased if the factory works efficiently but he won't be directly profiting off the factory production.

   Do politicians and economists know what is the better for the nation and are very good at organising production? No, not at all; that is not to be expected. On the other hand: are capitalists very good at the same? I would argue also no. Capitalism is a good system because it requires no bureaucracy to function, it functions automatically. It however also has plenty drawbacks for the people.

   In communism do people at the top really make no profits? Well, there always will be corruption and power grabbing. But that is not really the point. The economy is organised in a different way. It is not capitalists deciding what a nation should produce in order to make profit for themselves. It is rather the government deciding what should be made on a national level.
   Communism is one example of an economy type in which production is not controlled by capitalists for profit. It is not the only one.

   The Soviet Union has failed under many fronts, but a 5 years plan appears like a wonderful way to organise the expansion of production. In capitalism you get that freely, but you also get a bunch of stupid people messing things up: 1929 crisis, dot com bubble, 2008 crisis these are all directly related to capitalism. Such a crisis can happen only in a capitalist economy, as it happens due to the expectations of profits of the people.

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   obrhoff (obrhoff@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:25:44 JST obrhoff

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   @vgnpwr Well, I might imply that, but that's not what I said. I think in the end, as a member of society, there is no alternative but to participate in it.

   If you would ask me as an individual, I would say yes, invest for sure. It makes sense as an individual. If I look at it from a systemic perspective, it just can't work for everyone. Without poor people, there can't be rich people.

   In the end, we just participate in society, but that doesn't mean we aren't allowed to criticize it.

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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:56:10 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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   @serapath @dveditz @bbmin7b5 @root @james

   🤔"many people are ...something naive?broken?privileged?... you name it."

   🤔"People who only operate on the level of "fun" will definitely not ever be early adopters - they just dont understand much what things are about in this context"

   This is you saying things about people.

   In my thread about improving Mastodon and having empathy for why people choose BlueSky.

   And yes, I said stuff about you. Specifically, that you without irony, did a Mastodon.

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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 12:22:48 JST Børge

   The Republicans have been putting almost all their energy for the last quite a few years on demonizing gay and trans people.

   In that light it is quite strange to me that they are the ones sending out their second in command with eyeliner and a pink tie. I just can't quite wrap my head around this. Anyone?

   #vpdebate #uspol

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   Sprocket (stp@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 17:02:06 JST Sprocket

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   @iron_bug @freemo
   Disrespecting a country doesn't mean hating all of it's people.

   In fact one could argue that equating all the people with their country is the far worse sin.

   You can hate China, Russia, the US, or whatever country for what they are doing without hating every single citizen of these countries.

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   Jürgen Hubert (juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 19:42:08 JST Jürgen Hubert

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   @tob @mekkaokereke @doctormo

   Nothing about this is "fair" to Black people.

   In the long run, maybe #Mastodon and the #Fediverse could become a better haven for Black people. But that will require a lot of work and self-reflection by the people who are currently shaping the discourse around here - starting with reading up on why #BlackTwitter bounced off so hard around here.

   And it goes further than that - I mean, by all accounts Mastodon is still overwhelmingly white and European / North American. There is very little representation from, say, Africa or South Asia.

   And if people from these communities don't come here because they feel they would be screaming into the void... well, the best we can do is listen to the concerns of those who _are_ sticking around.