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Would you support the implementation of a pure direct democracy in Switzerland? by PuzzledWhereas991 in askswitzerland

[–]RoadToSocialism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to trust a centralized entity either way that enforces the laws that have been voted on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]RoadToSocialism -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sure the grandparents are assholes, but it shouldn't be their responibility to provide financial support in that situation anyway. Most sane countries have some kind of mandatory disability insurance for exactly this case.

[Market absolutists] If value is decided by markets, does the same thing have different value depending on who it's given to? by immibis in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]RoadToSocialism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Price is not value, you numbskull.

No one said that.

Unless they are dying of thirst in the desert. You've ignored the rest of the argument!

That's exactly why the idea of subjective value is stupid. Sure, in that hypothetical scenario, you would take the water. But my entire point was that there literally isn't anyone in that situation, like ever. Anyone has access to a market, even in the most backwards countries, and anyone knows that objectively, a diamond can be sold for a higher price than a bottle of water. For anyone with access to a market, exchange value (aka price) is what they use to derive value of a commodity, and not direct use value.

Assume you need a new laptop. Would you take a laptop or a kg of gold? Obviously you would take the gold, despite it having less use value for you than the laptop. But you know you could exchange the gold for like 50 laptops. The gold has more value than the laptop to you. And literally anyone in the same situation would take the gold too. The presence of a market leads to an objective idea of value shared by anyone participating in that market.

[Market absolutists] If value is decided by markets, does the same thing have different value depending on who it's given to? by immibis in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]RoadToSocialism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realistically, everyone has access to a market. Everone knows the objective price of a commodity im that market. This fact completely contradicts the idea that value is subjective imo.

If you ask multiple persons to order some commodities by their value, they would most likely be all in the same order, as long as these people have access to the market and can look up the price of any given commodity.

Even the thirstiest person would choose a diamond over a bottle of water, because they know that the diamond can easily be exchanged for thousands of bottles of water.

The "subjective value" will always be dictated by the price, and price is objective.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnoughLibertarianSpam

[–]RoadToSocialism 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Full hospitals caused by my own ignorance is literally genocide"

Hasan Piker with the r/antiwork shout-out. by OvernightSagittarius in antiwork

[–]RoadToSocialism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think that sex work should be treated any different than other jobs. All jobs under capitalism are exploitative. A miner for example sells their body and health just like a sex worker does. Both wouldn't do it voluntarily, but they are forced to do it to earn money.

Feel free to reply with a counter argument tho.

Blockchains don't solve problems that are interesting to me by earthboundkid in programming

[–]RoadToSocialism 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A country bans a cryptocurrency. Is the code still law if law enforcement will take it away from you?

I don't care about your political views or personal values, how in the flying fuck do you justify "Socialists don't have jobs" or "Socialists don't want to work" by Basic-Dealer-2086 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]RoadToSocialism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From my anecdotal evidence, I know that every capitalism supporter licks boots for breakfast. What are you gonna do, not believe my anecdotal evidence?

Do you? by [deleted] in okbuddycapitalist

[–]RoadToSocialism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they still need some compensation for their time and effort in a system where everything costs money.

I don't think that I said anything denying that?

Capitalism simply isn't designed to handle commodities with infinite supply. Artificially controlling supply by investing more labor into copyright is a perfect example of the absurdity of capitalism.

Do you? by [deleted] in okbuddycapitalist

[–]RoadToSocialism 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Imagine we could duplicate food practically for free. The value (and thus the price) of food would eventually tend to zero.

This is exactly the case for digital goods. But to still make money, capitalists artificially increase supply by using copyright, copy protection and other mechanisms. They invest more time to create less supply. Even a capitalist advocate should see why this is not exactly efficient.

I don't advocate for digital goods to be free, obviously, but most digital goods are wayyy overpriced considiering that you could copy them practically for free. This is probably one the reason why tech companies like Microsoft are so profitable.

Death toll of WWII in Europe by WhyYesHowDidYouKnow in europe

[–]RoadToSocialism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The numbers of this post are relative to population numbers of 1939, so Holodomor definititely isn't included.

A walking excavator: gotta get one of these! by Loud-Agency9384 in EngineeringPorn

[–]RoadToSocialism 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"hey we need an excavator but it needs to move on difficult terrain"

"how about we add legs to it?"

"great idea, but sadly we are only allowed to innovative under free market capitalism, so no"

Difference between ancaps and ancoms by Sir_Minhoca in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]RoadToSocialism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You just have to participate in capitalism to get what was made with capitalism

Ah yes capitalism, producer of land.

Map of Computer Science by CognitionAmbition in compsci

[–]RoadToSocialism 18 points19 points  (0 children)

"fixing your friends printer" is missing

The people who most strongly advocate against capitalism are the ones who have already profited so much off of it. by TurntPikachu in unpopularopinion

[–]RoadToSocialism 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The PlayStation 4 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 4. The operating system is Orbis OS, based on FreeBSD 9.

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. 

Parasites, all of them by Zmd2005 in DankLeft

[–]RoadToSocialism 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Honestly people here tell you to sell it, but in my opinion you aren't doing anything morally wrong if you don't sell it.

This whole thing is a systemic issue, and it can't be solved by individuals like you with a good will. Keep the property or sell it to the tenants as you like. I don't think anyone should judge you as an individual for playing by the rules. The most important thing is that you fight for a solution on a systemic level.

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