• 0 Posts
  • 10 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle

  • Maybe it’s even more like “I got an outlook message” instead of “I got an email”. Since email is an analog of ActivityPub. Just that people are not used yet to the fact that social media can be interoperable like email, so “saw on lemmy” carries different connotations. It should not, however.

    Anecdotically, I have an old frendlica account too, from times of diaspora, and it’s now very lively, so I saw this post on frendlica too.



  • Capitalism builds on competetion but favors behavior which eliminates competitors. This inner tension of capitalism makes it easily degrade into an authoritharian system. But it does not make it the same as one. Regulation is needed to maintain fair competetion which sounds paradoxical but is also a tension in the capitalism as such.

    Democracies struggle with capitalism but they struggle much more with planned state. Struggle is in the nature of free agents of democracy, so it does not have to suggest incompatibility.



  • Like others said, struggle is in human nature. But it is possible to shift it to other domains: art, science, exploration. To prevent this stuggle spill back into physical violence, there should be broad consensus on basic rules, effectively enforced.

    So I’d say, build this consensus, which will probably need to rely on abundant renewable enengy, some form of UBI, equality, and stronger international institutions, but will not spotaneously evolve towards unsupportable preferences of some groups.