Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

  • kadu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Now sum up deaths by capitalism :D

    Start with food insecurity and starvation, then labour related deaths, then homelessness, then the increasing effects of global warming…

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      1 year ago

      Food insecurity and starvation? Brother I much prefer working 5 minutes for a loaf of bread rather than queueing half a day to hopefully get 2 slices

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        You can probably work 5 minutes and buy a chocolate bar under capitalism.

        The farmer working 12 hours a day under conditions we wouldn’t allow for a farm animal can’t afford the cocoa they’ve grown, and probably have no idea what their kids will eat tomorrow, under the same capitalism.

        If you are trying to pretend people aren’t dying of hunger, or that they’re too lazy to work 5 minutes for a loaf of bread, I sure hope you’re never in a position to see first hand how wrong you are, how stupid that comment is, and what hunger actually means.

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        I wonder what you think the motive behind colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade was.

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          Colonialism - you mean a collectivist institution for the “social” and “communal” good (the state) - disrespecting others private property rights? nb. Private property is a principle of the Free Market. All private property rights are an extension of self ownership. To hell with slavery - which includes the collective slavery of Communism!

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            The federal reserve banks in the US are privately owned so even with your stupid definition of communism being “government does things” you’re wrong. The fed is supposed to act independently of the government.

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              Privately owned and in kahoots with the government - in the USA. Other central banks are government institutions. They all force the tender upon those within borders and demand payment in that tender - taxes. A true Free Market would have market derived currencies that people would voluntary adopt. No force. The very heart of ‘Capitalism’, that being capital, is not free, not libre. It is captured by private and/or state entities and controlled. True, although central banks are a tenant of communism, the situation in the USA is more akin to that of Fascism - the partnership of state and private business. The term Capitalism itself in its original meaning, as defined by Marx, is what we would more likely now call Crony-Capitalism. We need to abolish Capitalism/Crony-Capitalism and embrace Laissez-faire. Libre Software and libre markets!