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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago

What is this image from and what gives you the right to introduce me to new fetishes this casually?

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

TIL also -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7chbI3iiY-4

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Fuck these outfits are so COOL!

[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Capitalism isn't the problem because capitalism and competent democracy have in some cases proven to create happiness and minimize suffering. Meanwhile, supposed solutions to capitalism more often than not create minimal progress and sometimes result in autocratic hellscapes.

The real problem is billions of monkeys who cannot agree on a complicated system of redistribution of wealth and governance that balances civil freedoms with regulatory power to restrict bad actors.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

When governance and corporate remains separated it seems to work a little better. Also some sprinklings of socialist policy like free transit and healthcare, some government owned essential services like energy and food.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month ago

Housing, water, education, clothing...

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -4 points 1 month ago

Energy would be fine, and central planning for food is good, with incentives and subsidies to grow food which might otherwise be at cost, but if the government owns the production of food directly that can cause problems like it did in China, USSR, Nazi Germany, Ireland, France under Monarchy, and like a hundred other times as well.

In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron. I'm not 100% on whats going on in Cuba but they're historically an agricultural nation onset by famine during the blockades, so I'm guessing they grew a lot of tobacco and spices.

Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there. Hard agree on everything else you said.

[-] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron

Do you have sources for this? I'ma be honest: when a country is laboring under brutal sanctions - sanctions designed to create famine conditions, to make ordinary citizens desperate enough to overthrow their government - claiming that the famines are really caused by that government making farmers grow the wrong crops... I'm willing to be proven wrong but that doesn't pass the smell test to me.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -3 points 1 month ago

Lol, dudes blaming Iran famine on other countries and not the dictatorship who chose to move out of the capital to avoid it affecting them personally.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago

counterpoint: corruption. Capitalists have vested interest to NOT get regulated and will thus pay off politicians to act in their best interest not in the best interest of the population.

[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There has never been a system without corruption. Corrupt people have existed whether in capitalism or without, and have a vested interest in every scenario.

The singular place on earth with the least corruption is Finland, and it is a capitalism.

[-] solo@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

Sure corruption is not an invention of capitalism, but one of the problems of capitalism is that it promotes and favors corruption. Lobbyists are an easy example of what I mean.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

there has never been a colonial system without corruption*

pre-colonial societies had ways of being and existing that colonists erased and eliminated. we exist in the broken world colonists created and the main thing preventing us from building a better world is a lack of imagination that a better world is even possible

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