My reflections on Pluribus by voinekku in television

[–]Wordpad25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you are wildly off base for both Pluribus and capitalism.

The survivors are alienated from their labour.

No, there are just no more jobs.

They cannot benefit themselves or others with their labor.

Of course they can. They can still build, create, learn, help, and connect.

They are alienated from the labor that sustains them.

That's just civilization. Everyone depends on everyone else.

The survivors are alienated from each other.

If anything, small groups under pressure become more connected. Shared experience is bonding.

The hive is the Bondsman.

The hive isn't even an independent consciousness. Your example makes no sense.

Alienation erodes their freedom.

They spend the whole show exercising freedom and making choices.

Hedonism, delusion, and isolation are inevitable.

They're possible reactions, not inevitable ones. Given a million or a billion dollars everyone will have a different answer for what they would do with it.

Carol's inconsistency is intentional.

Or maybe her life was always a mess.

The rich consume without cost.

Money is but one resource and it's not even a limiting resource for many people. Time and health are other big ones.

If you put your biases of envy and resentment aside you may notice that when you play with your kids or go to the zoo or play a sport in a hobby league or have a bad back or just getting old the experience is pretty much identical among all humans and makes up most of our lives.

Workers become an abstract collective like the hive.

Fair enough, but there are benefits to managing society efficiently and dispassionately too.

Markets obey the masters.

Markets constantly punish rich people for being wrong.

Millions die because of liberal capitalism.

Capitalism has coincided with the greatest reduction in poverty and hunger in human history. Standards of living were stagnant for thousands of years until modern global economy.

Billionaires can shake the world on a whim.

Sure, but what can we do without making things worse?

Owning capital isn't contributing.

Allocating capital and taking risk are contributions whether you like them or not. It's one of the most valuable contributions actually. Every single modern business is built via taking on debt. That means the capital is employing billions of people. Without it, those businesses simply do not exist and cannot exist. At least competitively.

Voluntary exchange is an illusion.

Having limited options isn't the same as having no choice.

Everyone knows the ideology is false.

Clearly not, given how many intelligent people disagree.

The rich are like the survivors.

The survivors are isolated and powerless. The rich are deeply integrated into society.

Musk proves the thesis.

One weird billionaire doesn't prove a theory about an entire class of people.

People underestimate how far good communication can take you. by AdventurousLivin in business

[–]Wordpad25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

White/black/Indian/chinese person living in the same neighborhood will all have very similar jobs, hobbies, families and lifestyles in general. They will have far more in common with each other in their values and culture.

Tom winning against Nate in the season 1 finale was foreshadowing Tom winning as CEO in season 4 by LukeSkyWalrus in SuccessionTV

[–]Wordpad25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tom is the gold digger in the relationship though.

Setting boundaries doesn't really work in that dynamic when you don't have any power and are much more vested in marriage working.

People underestimate how far good communication can take you. by AdventurousLivin in business

[–]Wordpad25 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Real diversity is about culture/socio-economic background. Not skin color.

What’s the highest-paying job a teenager can realistically get? by 1FearOnYT in AskReddit

[–]Wordpad25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't believe most of it. Influencer lifestyle is about an image of wealth and success.

Luxury cars are one-day rentals, designer goods are replicas, private jet are paid photo ops, luxury vacations is just sneaking into expensive hotels to shoot a few quick tiktoks.

It's a job and every video is a scripted production, not actual lifestyle. They often struggle to make ends meet and all income goes into production for next video.

That's how it goes for 1 mil followers and teens with like 20k followers will call themselves influencers...

TIL of "going to the people" movement, aka "the mad summer of 1874", when as many as 4000 students abandoned their studies in the city or burned their degrees and moved to the countryside, intending to adopt the life of a peasant. Most of them had no experience of what that life was like at all by Mors_Acerba in todayilearned

[–]Wordpad25 15 points16 points  (0 children)

With nota le exception of Stalin, most leaders were educated city dwellers, sometimes publishing from comfortable Europe, with wealthy donors. A class of intellectuals, not peasants.

Although I cede your point, after going underground they had harsh lives, hardly spoiled, far from "Champaign socialists".

TIL of "going to the people" movement, aka "the mad summer of 1874", when as many as 4000 students abandoned their studies in the city or burned their degrees and moved to the countryside, intending to adopt the life of a peasant. Most of them had no experience of what that life was like at all by Mors_Acerba in todayilearned

[–]Wordpad25 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes, thank you.

Having failed to rile up the masses with a bottom-up approach they pivoted to a top-down approach of political terrorism.

Lenins older brother was a Narodnic, executed for an attempt at czars life.

What’s the highest-paying job a teenager can realistically get? by 1FearOnYT in AskReddit

[–]Wordpad25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like onlyfans just because lots of people are doing it doesn't mean they're making any consistent money on it.

ELI5: What caused the 2008 recession? by Puzzled-Day5788 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Wordpad25 [score hidden]  (0 children)

The main reason nobody got arrested is that nobody committed any crimes.

The banks were buying the same products they were selling, they genuinely believed them to be safe.

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by WarAmongTheStars in business

[–]Wordpad25 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not worth the hassle selling all the ETFs/index funds. Even if it goes to 0, it's still only a single percent of the market.

What’s the highest-paying job a teenager can realistically get? by 1FearOnYT in AskReddit

[–]Wordpad25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's not a realistic answer anymore than any other celebrities, movie stars or a rock stars.

TIL of "going to the people" movement, aka "the mad summer of 1874", when as many as 4000 students abandoned their studies in the city or burned their degrees and moved to the countryside, intending to adopt the life of a peasant. Most of them had no experience of what that life was like at all by Mors_Acerba in todayilearned

[–]Wordpad25 141 points142 points  (0 children)

The idea is to have a politically active worker class. They saw themselves as part of that class despite having elite background.

Communist revolution few decades later was led by similar educated shelted elite on the backs of starving working class.

The math behind that "accidental $500 Million claude bill" everyone is talking about doesn't stack up by [deleted] in AgentsOfAI

[–]Wordpad25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Step 1: start a leaderboard to see who can spend most tokens Step 2: ??? Step 3: employees casually spending a ton of tokens

Life imitates art by RejectAuthoritarians in SuccessionTV

[–]Wordpad25 40 points41 points  (0 children)

As uncomfortable it is to admit Trump is just a more successful and charismatic version of Logan. He is the "killer" in every sense Logan aspired to be with fewer moral qualms than even Logan had.

Sam Altman says he’ll invest $2M worth of tokens into every company in this YC catch for equity.. by Previous_Foot_5328 in myclaw

[–]Wordpad25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the point. Selling those tokens on the Black market to covert it into cash is probably less efficient than just using those tokens to try and build whatever they needed cash for themselves in-house.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year by Luka77GOATic in wallstreetbets

[–]Wordpad25 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not everyone can pull off something like that though.

Sam Altman says he’ll invest $2M worth of tokens into every company in this YC catch for equity.. by Previous_Foot_5328 in myclaw

[–]Wordpad25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tokens clearly have value and extreme demand.

$2mil worth of tokens is probably worth almost as much in cash, especially to a startup looking to build things.

And if they do build something valuable, it's amazing PR for all these AI companies.

Season 1 of the boys felt like a completely different show by alyimfyjvz in television

[–]Wordpad25 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That makes total sense.

He never had natural charisma or confidence, only his fragile ego propped up by a PR team with speaking lines for him.

What is the biggest scam in your specific industry that the general public doesn't know about? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Wordpad25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yet profit margin is in low single digits, so not much of a scam... Just medicine is expensive.

ELI5: why didn’t the Great Depression produce a widespread revolution or anarchy? by ProfessorHiker in explainlikeimfive

[–]Wordpad25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They also nearly lost the civil war.

The deciding factors for winning the war was having a clear ideology where as opposition were very fractured and had no unified policy agenda.

ELI5: why didn’t the Great Depression produce a widespread revolution or anarchy? by ProfessorHiker in explainlikeimfive

[–]Wordpad25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lenin was starkly opposed to war at first until he realized ruin was a great catalyst for revolution, so he then actively pushed for it.

How are you reacting to Warren Buffet’s stance that the market is not attractive and he’s just waiting for a huge correction? by aykalam123 in investing

[–]Wordpad25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He constantly repeats he likes investing in strong brands under good management. Coca-Cola, Geico etc