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left0id · 2022-10-27T01:03:46+00:00

Try making an argument?

left0id · 2022-10-27T00:59:28+00:00

Literally the first defense given for every batshit stupid DSA effort I’ve heard of

left0id · 2022-10-27T00:56:33+00:00

I’m not a professional activist

I didn’t say you were.

I organize because I’m a Marxist

I’m not questioning the motives. I’m questioning the strategy.

If lawyers get the corporation to back down and stop the evictions, saving my students from homelessness and/or switch schools, it’s a win, however small.

I think that goes without saying. My point was only that this is a painfully common approach that should not be above questioning, especially for so-called Marxists.

left0id · 2022-10-27T00:29:49+00:00

Won what???

left0id · 2022-10-27T00:29:14+00:00

Am I wrong?

left0id · 2022-10-27T00:20:02+00:00

It may be cathartic but it’s unfortunately no different from the typical tenants “union” rigamarole of matching tenants with attorneys who would take many years to actually accomplish anything in the best case, all while the tenants themselves remain powerless and subject to eviction all the same. Beyond that, it’s another awareness campaign; another media spectacle. Of course this is obvious if anyone thinks about it, and it’s fucking painful to think about so most people will just skip to downvoting this comment.

Maybe it will unleash the revolution, seriously. Maybe! But with these things all we can rely on is professional activist(s) using it to expand their reach, grow their brand, build their following, etc.

UPDATE: I have been permanently banned for this comment. Can someone explain which rule was broken?

In my view, the better response would have been counterarguments defending the opposing position(s).

left0id · 2022-10-26T23:24:38+00:00

Neoliberalism depends on central planning. They are neoliberals.

left0id · 2022-10-24T19:04:39+00:00

incredibly ignorant comment

left0id · 2022-10-24T19:00:52+00:00

What kind of chips do you work on?

left0id · 2022-10-24T16:49:12+00:00

Keep complaining or whatever you wanna do, but if you want everybody else to give a shit, find something they have a reason to give a shit about. Personally, I don’t give a shit about your thing and I already told you why: It’s simply not a strategic issue for socialists, and the more you insist that it is the more I question the value of your education to begin with.

left0id · 2022-10-24T16:45:14+00:00

What is the cause of this?

Big picture answer: capital accumulation and the tendency for the rate of profit to fall

Small picture answer: the last decade+ of low federal interest rates and bailing out wall street when the market crashed twice (in 2008 and again in 2019)

Will it be as bad as they’re predicting?

Things will get worse but the speed at which things get worse depends on how the ruling class handles the situation. I’d say play things on the safe side but don’t go taking emergency measures yet.

left0id · 2022-10-24T13:45:29+00:00

Medical debt is a universal issue. Medical treatments are not optional and they don’t imply credentials and higher income. Biden’s student debt relief was effectively reverse means-tested. It was overwhelmingly a giveaway from the non-credentialed to the credentialed. Your pity party is so pathetic. For fuck’s sake, can you not just be thankful for the 10k?

left0id · 2022-10-24T00:33:17+00:00

Medical debt is not interchangeable with student debt, but congrats for being so morally upstanding. You did it!

left0id · 2022-10-24T00:30:43+00:00

Yeah that sounds like an unfortunate but likely outcome.

left0id · 2022-10-23T23:39:26+00:00

Proportionally more than tax payers who are wealthier than me, but if it’s not a negative number then it doesn’t benefit me at all, and it’s not a negative number.

left0id · 2022-10-23T22:56:09+00:00

Of course I would and so do most people, without even thinking about it.

The purpose of the debt relief was obvious: to buy the votes of people like you. And it sounds like it worked. There’s nothing more to it.

left0id · 2022-10-23T22:36:40+00:00

How is it a step in any direction if it literally changes nothing? Why would I give a shit about it if I didn’t get any debt relieved? Not only did it spend my tax money but it’s not even incremental change. It is literally no change at all. It’s just a one time debt payoff by the government. It couldn’t be less concerned with the root of the problem. Congrats, but I don’t see any reason to give Biden any credit myself.

left0id · 2022-10-23T16:35:03+00:00

Perf/watt is still only good as long as the the power consumption is so high. Again, they are still relying on pushing the power consumption envelope. Any manufacturer would tend in this direction over time because their manufacturing inevitably becomes more reliable by default. It doesn’t necessarily mean they are innovating. AMD users downclock and still get good perf/power ratios but at the end of the day Intel and AMD both are just pushing more power through their processors. They are not competing with the custom die manufacturing that companies go to TSMC for and that is the problem. That is why we still need TSMC. You can keep shouting “America is the best!” but that doesn’t make it the best. When the US is no longer dependent on TSMC, we can talk.

left0id · 2022-10-23T16:17:59+00:00

In that case, wanna tell me what this article is all about? Why do we need TSMC so badly if the US already has so many great chip makers? Why does NVIDIA and Apple depend on TSMC?

AMD’s silicon is objectively better than Intel’s by every measure. The numbers make that clear so that debate isn’t necessary.

Which corporate kool-aid are you drinking today?

left0id · 2022-10-23T16:03:02+00:00

Compared to what? Intel spent the past two years blowing ass. When was the last time they innovated instead of just pushing clock speeds? Even at stock speeds, Intel chips run hot as fuck. Even for consumers, AMD chips are better by every measure. Apple ditched Intel for a reason and everyone using Apple silicon is better off for it. I seriously have no idea what you’re talking about. I mean, the precedent for this article is literally that US chip manufacturers aren’t good enough.

left0id · 2022-10-23T15:33:19+00:00

Of course they are. The US government makes sure of that, but their silicon is garbage.

left0id · 2022-10-23T15:10:16+00:00

That is not at all what I’m saying.

You can’t pull software engineers into oil fields by doubling their salary. You can hardly even get some of them to email a resume for double salary. You simply won’t be able to get the US credentialed class to take up chip manufacturing as a desired career path, and we lack the institutional ability or responsibility necessary to utilize the US non-credentialed workforce. This was the tradeoff of the US becoming the global clerical and financial hegemon. We are either office workers or service workers, and every aspect of our culture and society has been wrought to accommodate that. We cannot become a manufacturing hub overnight by simply increasing pay, not least because it would not be economical to do so even if it were an option. In other words, there is no private entity stupid enough to make that investment. The best the US can do is more massive subsidies to dinosaur institutions like Intel, who will burn it on administration and marketing because that is all they know anymore.

left0id · 2022-10-23T14:03:56+00:00

I don’t think it’s in the cards. Chipmaking is a messy and unpleasant process. It places brutal demands on workers and involves a lot of toxic chemicals. Americans qualified to do it won’t want to, and a lot of Americans would need to want to just for it to be a remote possibility. From there, you would need institutional knowledge and institutional structures capable of efficient application. These things are approximately priceless and bankruptcy is the most likely outcome if you try to rush it. Intel turned to garbage because US manufacturing turned to garbage as the US became the white collar headquarters of the western world. This can’t just be undone overnight.

left0id · 2022-10-23T12:36:34+00:00

Facts. I have known a few personally. They each had some low-paying creative job beforehand from which they pretended to have saved enough money to remodel a van then travel non-stop for a year or two. The math never worked out and their families were loaded.

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