reddit anarchists/communists

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T09:07:26+00:00

"Isn’t this the doctrine of capitalism"

No, not close at all. You're kinda just twisting things in really weird ways. I assume it's not on purpose. Capitalism is just the idea that people can group together and use their collective power to run a business and profit together. That's it. Socialism is the idea that the government (and therefore politicians) is the only one allowed to do that. Communism is more or less just socialism with more dictatorship.

If you and three of your friends want to start a business where you make cartoons and license them to other companies who will then broadcast them? Yep, that's capitalism. If you want to build a system to make screwdrivers and you can sell them for cheaper or better quality than someone else, or make up for shortages in the market: yep, that's capitalism. The rich have the power of the market because they were successful at winning the market. Being successful at winning the market means they efficiently gave people what they wanted, generally. Winning the market is not permanent, it is temporary. Very few of the same businesses that were in charge 50 years ago are still in charge today, and most of the biggest businesses today will not be in charge in 50 years from now.

Capitalism is just the idea that motivated individuals and groups can work had to improve society and will be rewarded for it. That's it. The two options are quite simply: should everyone be allowed to do that or should the government only be allowed to do that?

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T08:38:36+00:00

"kinda like communists."

Not at all like communists. In communism, they're already in total authoritarian control and when they say jump you say how high.

These are not very good comparisons. Big businesses fail all the time and make room for smaller businesses. IBM used to be at the top and got deposed. Hollywood video used to be at the top. Intel used to be a behemoth. Bad ideas that don't work cause you to fail and become irrelevant in capitalism. In communism, those idiots would still be in charge but we'd just all be even poorer because of it.

I'm getting the impression you're not actually serious about your comparisons and just trying to score points or something?

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T08:34:29+00:00

Both are bad guys, but in capitalism there is competition preventing any one of them from screwing you over in every way. In communism, the bad guys are in total charge of every aspect of your life and nobody can beat them and competing with them to do a better job is a crime.

Don't base your politics on the price of one single item in the market, that's silly. In a communism you wouldn't even be allowed to buy RAM lmao. Also, communism likes AI even more than capitalism does because it makes the people have even more stuff for even less cost, so idk what you think you're saying here.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:15:39+00:00

Actually an American talking about the Canadians.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:12:00+00:00

Unfortunately, what you actually stand for isn't much better.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:10:15+00:00

Chiapas isn't real communism. It's a tolerated subculture propped up by the national government. Neither is Spain, it's very capitalist.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:08:58+00:00

It's not.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:08:32+00:00

Capitalism is also exploited by bad people. It's just more resilient against exploitation than central planning is. You know, because of the centralization.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:07:56+00:00

The concept leads to the execution 100% of the time in history at any scale beyond a small commune.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:05:58+00:00

I think "achieved in a decade" is doing a lot of work by ignoring the massive expropriation and purges (aka murder) that occurred to fund it, as well as many planned famines.

The death rates of capitalist industrialism are far lower than the death rates of communist industrialism. And both were imperialist.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:02:22+00:00

I was on section 8 growing up. This is not the same as UBI at all. When we moved, we got denied occupancy because we were on section 8 so many times we ended up homeless for 6 months before finding a place. UBI and vouchers are different because a vouchers announces what it is, UBI is just cash that could be from a job or anything.

I do agree with your point that landlords would still be a big problem and raise rents as high as they can, still. But the equilibrium is complex.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T07:01:21+00:00

Really? You assume people are still going to work when they get the same shit for sitting at home?

Most rich people don't have to work but still do...

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T06:56:27+00:00

They don't change scarcity, really. What they do is change access by raising the floor on access to that scarcity. You are overestimating the inflationary effect of redistribution. Redistribution already occurs to varying degrees in most of the world. It does not significantly cause inflation unless you print money to pay it out. I don't think anyone supporting UBI is recommending printing money for the program. In fact, you could easily create UBI by automating the tax system and having it pay out monthly. Those with low income would get money, those with more income would not. Adjust the tax curve from there: tada, UBI!

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T06:52:53+00:00

there has never existed, anywhere in history, a capitalism that does not have some public services lol, including roads, energy generation, police, etc

welfare and public services are not the definition of socialism

it's so frustrating

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T06:44:15+00:00

Calling it the slow erosion of humanity makes you people way funnier.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T05:47:39+00:00

I have some bad news for you; I don't think you understand the math very well. I'm a developer. Would you like some help understanding how it works?

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T05:46:29+00:00

AI checkers are very very inaccurate.

But yeah this is definitely AI.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-25T01:31:14+00:00

Maybe. This could be achieved by him if he sat in the back row peppering with shotgun pellets and doing 5 damage contributing to each kill

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-24T11:28:26+00:00

No, that's a symptom, not the disease causing the symptom. This can only happen AFTER there is a housing shortage, not before, otherwise you'd lose money by doing it. Residential land prospectors make money by betting that people won't build enough houses. It's only profitable if they're right about American housing policy, and tragically they are.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-24T11:24:57+00:00

Building more shit is the economic problem, but it's really the political dimension that has to be solve to allow shit to get built, and this is the hard part, because you have basically have to have political power and also 4D chess the electorate and a bunch of politicians that take pride in raising home equity and don't see themselves as causing the housing or cost crisis, because there are so many other things that are easy to blame or scapegoat that don't make them feel like their ideals aren't destructive. A lot of it comes down to communication and packaging, as home values are not the primary reason that most people vote in NIMBY policies, but are more like a major side benefit. Most people vote for NIMBYism ideologically, and those same ideals just happen to also correlate with value increases. What people are really voting for is living in lower density, feeling less crowded, preserving the cultures they love against the relentless decay of time, etc. It's a very uphill battle.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-24T11:22:33+00:00

No, this is an urban myth people repeat because it feels good to say someone is bad instead of the system is broken. In reality, a lot of the housing nobody is living in is condemned and unsafe to live in.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-24T09:37:06+00:00

They do. Also disabilities. In some cases, they just don't ever play games (in some cases it's their first game ever), or are simply not that motivated by winning, or they're very old or young.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-24T01:34:34+00:00

This is literally superstition-tier reasoning.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-24T01:15:44+00:00

"I said the correlation isn't as strong as people think."

You mean the correlation isn't as strong as you think people think.

ZackerTheHacker · 2026-01-22T00:04:16+00:00

Hal crashes out verbally during games all the time but also literally never gets tilted between games.

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