SkyNTP
Listening to others, empathizing and earning their trust, and then being insistent about facts is the only proven remedy to any kind of tribalism. Doesn’t matter what tribe.
How about we ban software in cars in general, beyond basic engine control.
Is a corner with an angle of 180 degrees a corner? If yes, then all shapes have infinite corners and infinite edges.
I think there is a very fine line between prescribing language because of a world view that insists on conformity, and correcting grammer and vocabulary because being clear and understood is kinda the point of language.
The insulation was supposedly improperly installed. There, saved you a click.
So by “encouraging”, I take that to mean a mixed system? I’m all for the Nordic model. I think a hard-line approach is ultimately too disruptive and unpalatable to a majority of people’s current personal situation, and I feel like it’s important to communicate that for buy in.
Genuine question. How would a transition to socialism work in practice?
Eating the billionaires and “nationalizing” publicly traded companies is the easy part. Saying “you can still possess your car” is also easy. The hard, and ultimately unpopular, part is everything else in between. Summer cottage? Family farm? What happens to pensions/retirement savings, land ownership, inheritance, small businesses, the apartment your are renting out to pay for your own rent…
Yeah, I know, these things tend to be out of reach for younger folks these days, precisely because of hyper wealth concentration. So with billionaires and mega corps out of the picture, the question still stands.
You can have a capitalist economy without billionaires. It just requires a wealth tax and welfare state. Nothing wrong with small businesses and anti trust.
All that said, UBI is inevitable with the rise of automation, as the value of labour drops to zero. The only question is: will the labour class fight for their share of the pie, or will they roll over and just die of hunger.
Free markets are rarely naturally sustainable. Left to their own devices, they converge into monopolies; it’s explained pretty simply with a bit of game theory and the advantages afforded by the network effect and economies of scale.
This is exactly why the US had historically adopted anti trust laws, the FTC, and the Competition Bureau. The public used to know what’s up. Clearly many people haven’t gotten the memo, and are all too happy to drink the ancap cool aid.