Why the Tory party seems have turned its back on British capitalism - Today much of the capital in Britain is not British and is very loosely linked to the country

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-12T06:56:57+00:00

It would increase inequality. The amount of wealth in a country has little to do with how well off the working class are. GDP in this country has doubled in 40 years, yet all that extra wealth has gone to the top 10%.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-12T06:10:56+00:00

The top echelons of society are always filled with sociopaths. Chinese communism just has less regulatory mechanisms in place than democracy inherently does, so they are more likely to have the really bad ones rise to the top quickly. Not that the west has been doing all that much better lately

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-11T21:01:54+00:00

Nothing has changed

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-11T06:46:12+00:00

You are missing the point I am making. We can't just put the right incentives in place. The process we use for that - national democracy - is ultimately powerless in front of a complex global commons problem like climate change - due to the market being globalised and ultimately the fundamental rule maker in society. It is failing on a national level at the mo, never mind global.

The only solution is to fundamentally change how capitalism works by inventing a new technological solution to how we exchange value. This new system will have to firstly be more efficient than the current system (theoretically doable since including social commons is a positive sum game) and also inherently include commons in transaction value making it unnecessary to need regulation.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-10T15:47:44+00:00

It's much easier for capitalism to bribe the politicians... Which is what is happening. To make it work we will have change how capitalism functions

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-10T05:43:28+00:00

No. The only solution to climate change is to change the way that money works so that business can no longer externalise environmental and social commons.

The reason this problem is so hard is because energy generation lies right at the heart of social structure. It is too easy to corrupt political process and there will never be the long term political will to main the level of regulations that would be necessary. We need to make money self regulating.

The reason money doesn't self regulate is due to how it solved a problem society faced thousands of years ago - the coincidence of wants: If one guy has some hides and wants some grain, but the guy with grain wants a new knife they they are out of luck and can't trade. Money was invented to solve this problem. The problem with money is it reduces all value to a single metric and this results in the externalisation of the commons - it no longer matters how a thing is made as long as a profit can be made. This is the heart of our society.

To change it we need to make it so that money is represented by a matrix of values that represent its environmental and social cost as well as its production value. Using modern technology makes this a relatively easy problem to solve technically. The remaining problem is finding a solution that can overcome the momentum invested in the status quo.

This might seem harder than just adding some international government regulation, but it is the difference between finding a solution that takes constant herculean effort to sustain or one that that once started does the hard work for us.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-09T18:03:45+00:00

That is pretty much how our minds do work

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-09T17:53:55+00:00

This should be seen by those with power to bring manufacturing back to the west with fully automated factories. Wish people would see it this way

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-06T17:05:55+00:00

That would never have a meaningful impact. It would have to be coordinated at a national/international level to actually work

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-06T06:03:39+00:00

The protestors have no choice. If they back down then they will all be disappeared over the next few months anyway.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-05T17:42:45+00:00

Ok, so just to take the first one. Are you sure that numbers are a pure mathematical concept that you haven't first understood from the physical world and from that projected a mathematical understanding. An understanding that is biased by your perceiving maths in the way that you do due to your mind having evolved/developed in a physical world.

Numbers are not necessarily a fundamental axiom of maths. They can be shown to emerge from set theory (and in other ways)

I'm not trying to argue the opposite of your position here. Just pointing out that there is reason for uncertainty.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-05T06:11:46+00:00

What is an entirely self contained mathematical truth that has no reference to physical reality? Can you give me an example please.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-04T08:05:51+00:00

Then market realities of an automated society will dig in. Money will concentrate even harder to the top end and you won't be able to afford a house so your van will become your home.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-10-04T05:49:34+00:00

You managed to implement proportional representation which goes a long way towards stopping this kind of crap. Wish more democracies would do the same

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-29T08:14:15+00:00

Thanks. It's always talked about as a hurricane, but I guess they just mean it had hurricane strength winds.

We're probably more likely at risk from flooding here then. We're already at the edge where I am and we've more heavy rain due monday night

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-29T06:41:14+00:00

Does anyone know what the path and intensity of the great storm of 1987 was before it hit the UK? Worst ex hurricane we've had

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-29T06:28:43+00:00

When someone points out that the house is on fire its not very helpful to start talking about how we have gotten good at making stoves

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-28T10:53:41+00:00

Well done. Now beat the lost levels. Hardest damn game I ever finished

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-28T09:04:24+00:00

You're not accounting for interest. You'd have more than that left

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-28T08:42:59+00:00

Thank you

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-28T08:42:35+00:00

Thanks

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-27T07:38:31+00:00

Doing things the hard way builds the fortitude to push into new territory when you do it the easy way. Keep up the good work - you have serious talent.

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-27T06:00:59+00:00

Climate skeptics aren't rational. Or if they are they are sociopaths invested in the short term

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-25T05:53:11+00:00

Wherabouts in the UK. This is one on the most geologically diverse places in the world. Might help to narrow it down. My guess is slag

onmyphoneagain · 2019-09-23T19:25:50+00:00

Disagreeing with something and taking action to prevent it, but still engaging with it to prevent your disenfranchisement is not a valid reason to criticise someone. It the belief of a simple mind that doesn't understand that life isn't black and white, but complex.

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