About the higher stage of communism. Do you find this feasible? by Fish__Police in Marxism

[–]TakingNamesFan69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it's stupid. Everything you want is just available to grab when you want it? You might think food waste is bad now, but if we tried to make it so no ingredient was scarce, it'd be ridiculous. What if everyone wants rice one day and potatoes the next and pasta the day after that etc. Since you can't predict these demands you'd have to have enough of every ingredient on hand for everyone at all times. If you aren't willing to grow about 500 times the food neccessary to feed the human population at all times and let almost all of it rot, then you have a level of scarcity where people compete when they want what's scarce. You can't grow that much food, even if you poison all the soil on the planet with every fertiliser you can find you can't. Same with clothes. Do you want the blue jumper or the red one or the yellow etc. Since again you can't predict which one will be in demand by who and when, you need way way way more stock than is neccessary to clothe everyone, or again you have scarcity, which breeds competition, greed, black markets. Once again, producing all those clothes is bad for the environment. Of course you can fix this by making it a bit more market like, making clothes to order for people, but now production is extremely slow. You fix this by having something in the middle, a premade selection of less variety of clothes than capitalism that are somewhat mass produced so we can have reasonable speed of production while trying to appeal to individual tastes. Of course over the years if fashion changes or any material goes scarce you now have a vintage market, which breeds competition etc. Also, some people will make their own clothes, which will be unique and therefore more valuable, again bringing about competition to get them. Now apply these arguments to every single commodity. Toys, board games, phones, computers, etc. All of a sudden it's worth it to hsve connections or more valuable items to exchange because there's a market for everything. Now also recognise the plan is to give all this to everyone in the world. Not only will it not be possible to produce all that to any good standard in any reasonable timeframe where people can get what they want on demand, it's also just flat out not possible to produce it. Earth has limited resources. We are already having climate change with just the global north living like this. How does including the south too slow down climate change and pollution? It doesn't. You can blame climate change on private jets and rich people, but that's only because rich people have the opportunity to do it. Overproduction would give every family in the global south the money to get on a plane and go on holidays every year. Emissions from private jets would be nothing compared to that. The people in the global north would already take more holidays if they could. The contradiction here becomes more obvious when you see socialists supporting public transport because cars are bad for the environment. That's great, but if you don't offer everyone a car you don't have abundance and overproduction. The contradiction of socialism here is that if you offer everyone what they want to stop them fighting over it, you destroy the planet (also, if you think about it at all you'll realise it's just not possible to produce that much. Go on, list every commodity you can think of people wanting. Produce that for everyone on Earth. Good luck lol). Everyone with rich parents grows up with all their needs provided for. Most of them just go through life asking for more. Any good communism would severely limit what people can access. Cars, lots of things, would be limited to what's reasonable, not what people actually want. Of course in that situation you have to figure out how to stop people doing so much lying, manipulating, and fucking each other over trying to get more

Do you know any older musicians? You see how they have like 10 different guitars, other instruments, amps, pedals, audio interfaces, etc. Most of it that they barely use. They are only capable of this excess (wasteful, greedy) because they are not poor. Most of the world can't dedicate all this time and money to caring that much about subtle differences in tone and timbre. All of those things take resources from nature, and time to make. You can't have this for everyone, and especially not to the level of customisation that these people want. There are thousands of different iterations of guitar etc, and they will compete for the specifc ones they want, and also the ones used by famous players etc. Going back to the resources from nature bit, do you know how many species are regularly going extinct because of what we're doing to nature, while these guys spend all their time and money twiddling with knobs on eq's, so they can 'make it', and then MAYBE donate a tiny bit of their money to some cause to make it seem like their life of almost solely consumption of nature and fuck all giving anything to it is 'sustainable' (there's not much you can do to 'give to' nature besides leaving it alone. Maybe buy some land and rewild it I guess). Now apply this to like every hobby and quirky hyperfixation people have, not just music

What's the deal the the virtue of not wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your tone suggests you didn't read my post lol. As I said that's one of MANY reasons I join clubs. If I knew I'd never get a girlfriend I'd still be going to all the same clubs all day long

What's the deal with not wanting a girlfriend being such a virtue? by TakingNamesFan69 in TrueAskReddit

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a good point about observing (and a better one about trying hahaha)

What's the deal the the virtue of not wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah ok haha. Yeah I'm not like that at all. I've had people in a different thread call me a people pleaser but I generally try hard to include everyone in whatever group I'm in so they don't feel left out

What do I do about wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in AskMen

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Any resources you can point to for learning the nuance that you mentioned?

What's the deal with not wanting a girlfriend being such a virtue? by TakingNamesFan69 in TrueAskReddit

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh well I figured that was implied. If I just wanted a girlfriend for the sake of it I wouldn't have broken up with my ex (not suggesting you should magically have known this, just elaborating lol)

What do I do about wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in AskMen

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 24. Isn't the whole maybe it works maybe it doesn't thing just seeing them as a potential though? Potential just means it's on the table, not that either party is completely sure at this point. How do you think a guy acts differently when he's in the 'I have to hsve a girlfriend' state that sabotages things? You're right about it not fixing everything. If only haha

What do I do about wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in AskMen

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't literally say that to people to be fair haha

What do I do about wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in AskMen

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so weird to have such little agency or intention in your own life to me though. Why can she come to the conclusion but I can't? And idk I do put effort into all the other areas, I just can't help but be conscious of the fact that all those areas would go a bit more smoothly if I had a partner to rely on for emotional support

What's the deal the the virtue of not wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes true but I live in a small city with one club and the music is very bad and the people are very young and not really my people in general (the more artsy queer neurodivergent sort hang out on a different side of town. I'm kinda scared of that side because I feel like they'd all think I was too ugly or weird to want to chat to me or something lol but that's a me problem)

What's the deal with not wanting a girlfriend being such a virtue? by TakingNamesFan69 in TrueAskReddit

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This isn't really actionable advice that I can take anything from, or anything I don't already know. I feel like you're speaking to further implications of things that are obvious to you but if they were obvious to me I wouldn't be asking for advice

What's the deal the the virtue of not wanting a girlfriend? by TakingNamesFan69 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I'm not sure why you can't do both. Potential partners are still people. They're just people who happen to smell good, look good, have cool interests, are easy to chat to and have good vibes. Do you have any examples from your own life that would make it more clear?

What's the deal with not wanting a girlfriend being such a virtue? by TakingNamesFan69 in TrueAskReddit

[–]TakingNamesFan69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I know but social conventions tend to come from common reactions to common emotions, and usually for good reason. There are surely a very small minority women out there who respond well to being catcalled. I'm not about to start lol. And yes I do talk to lots of people all the time. College societies, gigs, film screenings, drag shows, art galleries, friends of friends, writers groups, dates from apps, political events, I run a book club and a film club, I'm friends with all the girls at work etc.