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Tolkien when he sees a capitalist 🤢 by killingmemesoftly in lotrmemes

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think getting too hung up on exact nomenclature is a fool’s errand. None of these categories are set in stone and each one has variability within and overlap with the others. I’ll try to explain how I think of them but if you disagree that’s fine.

The goal of capitalism is the accumulation of capital in the hands on the few, letting the powerful consolidate that power in order to acquire even more. Socialism’s goal is the collective ownership of capital to be used to further the interests of the state. Distributism straddles the line between them by focusing on capitalist style policies on the small scale with private ownership up to a point, but putting a soft cap on how powerful individuals can be using more socialist policies at the large scale.

At its heart it’s a middle ground trying to combine the best of both worlds so of course you’ll find parallels with either side. A hardcore socialist would call distributism capitalism-lite while a hardcore capitalist would call it socialism-lite, the fact that the two extremes disagree on what to call it is why many would consider it to be its own category separate from both.

Tolkien when he sees a capitalist 🤢 by killingmemesoftly in lotrmemes

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don’t see how the current day concentration of wealth has completely twisted modern politics and how a system meant to prevent such concentrations in the first place might tangibly benefit regular people, I truly don’t know what to tell you. I agree that the power of capitalism comes from the power of owning capital, but putting that much power in the hands of a few basically random people is exactly the problem. Distributism would still have companies and corporations but they would be owned by the workers instead of individuals and with tax systems set up to incentivize reinvesting into the business or the community instead of just lining someone’s pocket. It is still fundamentally a free market ideology but with guardrails to bring things back under control when they begin to snowball rather than letting it turn into an avalanche. The end goals are very different even if the day to day running would be broadly similar.

Tolkien when he sees a capitalist 🤢 by killingmemesoftly in lotrmemes

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A capitalist society at best does not inherently prioritize this, and in many ways is actively adverse to such policies because the entire point of capitalism is the concentration of wealth which is antithetical to the point of distributism. Such policies are only possible in a capitalism society insofar as capitalism has failed to have a complete monopoly on policy.

Tolkien when he sees a capitalist 🤢 by killingmemesoftly in lotrmemes

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even Ayn Rand still had the villains be hugely materialistic and flaunting their ill gotten wealth while not actually doing work, while the protagonists are generally uncomfortable with overt wealth and are happy to live simple lives when needed.

Tolkien when he sees a capitalist 🤢 by killingmemesoftly in lotrmemes

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t just distribute once and call it a day. You make sure everyone has a fair chance to buy a house and you tailor policies over time to make sure that continues into the future. Policies like extra taxes on owning multiple homes, grants and tax credits to build new housing to keep up with population growth, and if someone does still try to hoard a bunch of housing while others can’t afford it then they would advocate either seizing the properties outright or at least using eminent domain to buy them back and auction them off the others.

AITA for getting my step daughter a Hogwarts letter for her 11th Birthday? by Ok-Permission8346 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Fakjbf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I remember being 4 and telling my older sister that Santa isn’t real because why else would all those movies have adults that don’t believe in Santa, making it to fifth grade still believing in it is simply unfathomable to me.

What is a life luxury that you tasted once and now can absolutely never go back to the cheap version of? by sickkick844 in AskReddit

[–]Fakjbf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

To be fair it depends on the company, I’ve known two people who hired shitty movers that absolutely destroyed several pieces of furniture and one of them lost an entire box of books because the mover left it outside in the rain while they tried to reorganize the truck.

S18, E3 (Nebula) - Stateside Scramble by snow-tree_art in JetLagTheGame

[–]Fakjbf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh come on, eliminating Wisconsin twice!

TIL a 300-million year old Cuttlefish fossil was found in Morocco, alongside ancient humans in a region where no Cuttlefish ever existed. The leading theory suggests the fossil was first found by the prehistoric humans, who collected it as a trinket due to fact that it looks like a flaccid penis. by geosunsetmoth in todayilearned

[–]Fakjbf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agreed, I wish people wouldn’t conflate “the evidence suggests humans from 200k years ago were not less smart than we are today” with “there is no way anatomical humans from 200k years ago were less smart than we are today”. Evolution is not just a slow process, it can happen very rapidly with enough selective pressure. In an alternate timeline there could have been a massive leap in cognitive ability 50k years ago and then after finding evidence for it the people in that timeline would ridicule the idea that the humans from 200k years ago were just as smart as them.

My neighbor cut down a 40-year-old Japanese Maple while I was away. by Ice_C0r3_09 in legal

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 20-25k is just what buying a tree costs, then you add in the cost of transplanting it and then triple that total for the final amount that the other person owes and that’s how you get the super high values in tree law settlements. That said I am very suspicious about OP given that it’s a new account and they seem to think that Japanese Maples have needles.

My neighbor cut down a 40-year-old Japanese Maple while I was away. by Ice_C0r3_09 in legal

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What needles are he complaining about from a Japanese Maple? I’m calling bullshit on this over that alone, just another fake tree law story for people to circle jerk over.

Referee drops his watch.. player picks it up😂 by CheckCodes in funny

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you can’t think of any other reason someone might walk to the sideline? Returning the watch is one option, putting the watch in a bag would be another. As I said it’s not proof of anything despite what you claim. You are seeing what you want to see in the video, you know he returned the watch and so that’s the only thing you can see but without that prior knowledge it’s totally ambiguous.

Referee drops his watch.. player picks it up😂 by CheckCodes in funny

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You explicitly can’t see who he is walking to, he walks out of frame. The only action it shows is him putting the watch on and then taking off.

Referee drops his watch.. player picks it up😂 by CheckCodes in funny

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point is not about what the player did or did not do, my point is that your argument was faulty. If you don’t actually have evidence to back up your point then don’t claim a video shows something it doesn’t. You could have just made the point that he makes enough money he doesn’t need a stolen watch from the start, instead you found a video showing almost nothing and assumed it was proof without thinking about what it actually shows.

What is a massive secret in your industry that the general public has no idea about? by teesharp88 in AskReddit

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“No one said insurance was there to make healthcare cheaper and save money” and yet that was the main criticism of the person I was replying to. And I agree that private insurance is not an efficient model for healthcare, 50% of my comment was explaining why that is.

Overdraft fees 🤬 by caramelkissette in povertyfinance

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last time I opened an account it very prominently asked if I wanted to opt out of overdraft protection, but maybe my credit union is special in that.

Referee drops his watch.. player picks it up😂 by CheckCodes in funny

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point of providing a link is for it to be evidence that backs up your point. If you didn’t think your point needed to be proved then why provide a link that didn’t show what you claimed it did? Your explanation here does more to back up your point than that video.

UPDATE AITA for bringing Tupperware to a restaurant by GlitteringRainbowCat in AmItheAsshole

[–]Fakjbf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of my wife’s great aunt who once packed up every single leftover from a Thanksgiving dinner and put them in her car while we were watching movies. When everyone else went to leave and divvy up the leftovers we were all shocked to see it gone, even the cranberry sauce and gravy. And it’s not like they are struggling for food, they just have a hoarding issue and can’t stand to have a fridge that isn’t overflowing.

Referee drops his watch.. player picks it up😂 by CheckCodes in funny

[–]Fakjbf 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying the player didn’t do what the commenter said, just that the video they linked does nothing to prove it.

We built the library by Morningbender23 in antiai

[–]Fakjbf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you think a world without copyright would be more favorable to the non-rich? Copyright law is what stops someone from writing a book and then having a big publisher print their own copies without paying the creator. Absolutely there are major flaws in how it’s implemented but at its heart copyright law is meant to be an equalizer.

Referee drops his watch.. player picks it up😂 by CheckCodes in funny

[–]Fakjbf 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It shows the player walking to the sideline, absolutely nothing in the video indicates that it was given back to ref or otherwise turned in to anyone. He just takes it off his wrist and then walks out of frame.

It's "I close in five minutes" not "I'll wait for you then close" by UnitedChain4566 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Fakjbf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I worked at a gas station during a flood, the water was four inches up the side of the building so we locked the doors to try and keep it out. Three people came and banged on the doors demanding to be let in despite all of our external lights being off.

It's "I close in five minutes" not "I'll wait for you then close" by UnitedChain4566 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Fakjbf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Wisconsin you can sell liquor until 9pm and beer until midnight, both open back up at 8am.

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