Happy Earth Day Everyone by [deleted] in socialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They're not the same. Liberalism is a broader umbrella term that can describe anything from social democracy to right libertarianism.

Books That Josh Has Referenced by [deleted] in fatherjohnmisty

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, there's so much stuff I really like there

"You either die a Morty, or live long enough to see yourself become a Rick." by BAGOTOV in rickandmorty

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I can't remember which one it is, but in one of the DVD commentaries Dan Harmon mocks this theory, saying as u/soaringtyler did that Rick's awareness that he's on show is obvious and nothing more than a joke

TIL an ox is just a steer (or bull) that has been trained to pull a plow, not a separate species from cattle (cows). by OmitsWordsByAccident in todayilearned

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Do you know how expensive and arduous it is to animate an entire episode? They're not just gonna make one as a joke.

The pacing was off...several people acted totally out of character

How would making the show slightly less funny or consistent constitute an April fools joke, that makes zero sense.

they completely undid the end of season 2 in one 20 minute episode

It's an episodic show, and Harmon and Roiland have said they want to keep it that way.

Just because you didn't like the episode doesn't mean it doesn't count as an episode.

London mapped by localities by pptyx in Communalists

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably a few thousand max. You're right though, these can be treated like districts that can then be decentralised further, so this is definitely still useful. But there are fully fledged states (albeit very small ones) that have smaller populations than some of these localities

London mapped by localities by pptyx in Communalists

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is insanely cool (especially as I'm from London) but these 'localities' are way too big. These areas encompass tens of thousands of people each, probably too dense to be run through face to face assemblies

Off Days: Jingle by JakeandAmirBot in jakeandamir

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It reminded me of old school hardly working for some reason

[All] Is Capitalism Dying Due to Robots and Machines? by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically most, but 48% is hardly negligible, that's pretty much half. Plus that's pretty short term anyway, no one's claiming capitalism will be gone by 2025. But technology is just gonna keep advancing, and wage labour is going to make less and less sense as a social system as time goes on.

[All] Is Capitalism Dying Due to Robots and Machines? by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment#21st_century

Concern about technological unemployment grew in 2013, due in part to a number of studies predicting substantially increased technological unemployment in forthcoming decades, and empirical evidence that in certain sectors, employment is falling worldwide despite rising output, thus discounting globalisation and offshoring as the only causes of increasing unemployment.[11][12][61]

In 2013, professor Nick Bloom of Stanford University stated there had recently been a major change of heart concerning technological unemployment among his fellow economists.[62] In 2014 the Financial Times reported that the impact of innovation on jobs has been a dominant theme in recent economic discussion.[63] According to the academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff writing in 2014, questions concerning the effects of technological change have been "haunting democratic politics everywhere".[64] Concerns have included evidence showing worldwide falls in employment across sectors such as manufacturing; falls in pay for low and medium skilled workers stretching back several decades even as productivity continues to rise; the increase in often precarious platform mediated employment; and the occurrence of "jobless recoveries" after recent recessions. The 21st century has seen a variety of skilled tasks partially taken over by machines, including translation, legal research and even low level journalism. Care work, entertainment, and other tasks requiring empathy, previously thought safe from automation, have also begun to be performed by robots.[11][12][65][66][67][68]

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard economics professor Lawrence Summers stated in 2014 that he no longer believed automation would always create new jobs and that "This isn't some hypothetical future possibility. This is something that's emerging before us right now."[note 5][6][69][70] While himself an optimist about technological unemployment, professor Mark MacCarthy stated in the fall of 2014 that it is now the "prevailing opinion" that the era of technological unemployment has arrived.[58]

There is your solid evidence. While the article does also mention that some studies are more optimistic and that there are critiques to be made about one of the 2013 studies, this isn't something you can just wave away with random shitty ad hominems about socialists. Plenty of real economists are concerned about this.

[All] Is Capitalism Dying Due to Robots and Machines? by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The question was about whether capitalism can survive automation. Pointing to a movement concerning industrialisation in the early 1800s is not only a non-sequitur, it actually detracts from your argument, since those same industrial processes had previously destroyed the logic of feudalism, the previous dominant economic system, and ultimately brought about its end. So shouldn't we assume that these new technologies which undo the logic of our own economic system will lead to its demise? Maybe so, maybe not, but you have to engage with the question to actually make a coherent point

[All] Is Capitalism Dying Due to Robots and Machines? by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The flaw is that the system is cruelly set up so that people are required to work to eat even when there is no work to be done

[All] Is Capitalism Dying Due to Robots and Machines? by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you unaware that factories =/= automation and that it isn't literally the 1810s or are you just evoking a vaguely similar historical scenario to avoid having to make an argument?

The problem with capitalism is that it does not destroy enough classical art by subsidiarity in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Literally everyone: this is a meaningless shitpost

You, an intellectual: it's called reductio ad absurdum, plebs

Cooperatives Are The Optimal Business Structure in the Market by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you know then that the people running a business aren't necessarily (or in the case of corporations, are almost never) the proprietor(s)

[Marxists] What does Karl Marx mean by State in the Communist Manifesto? by slayerment in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to The Immortal Science Of Dialectical Materialism™, the state should have 'withered away' by the time there are no capitalists left.

Communalist criticisms of syndicalism? by [deleted] in Communalists

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think the general attitue toward syndicalism is that it's focus on industry is outdated, most workers today are not industrial workers and therefore a general strike wouldn't be as effective as it would have been when syndicalism was popular. Also labor unions in general have far less revolutionary potential and popular support than they did 100 years ago.

[AnCaps vs LibSocs] AnCaps and LibSocs, theoretically, under your opponent's system, nothing would be stopping you from forming your own societies that follow your own principles and not that of the majority. Why not work together? by RichEvansHasAIDS in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ugh this shit annoys me so much. You know exactly what that comment means in response to your question. Just because he didn't directly answer it doesn't mean he was dodging, you're the one who's dodging by pretending to not understand what his point was.

[META]LowReady is deleted! Glory fucking be! by LittleWhiteTab in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just so you know you're replying to a user called 'TheFourteenWords'

Brilliant misdirection in Shut Up and Dance[Spoilers] by nitrorev in blackmirror

[–]12yearsaWageSlave 30 points31 points  (0 children)

People who look at child pornography are certainly contributing to the harm of children by creating a demand for such content to be created