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GhostOnTheHalfShell

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opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.

Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.

tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars

I drink Philz.

I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.

Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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3 min

As the Dutch would say "mooi!"

https://youtu.be/r5EJCJbZ3qQ

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Radcliffe Institute: "There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried. … There have been those days. And there are likely to be more."

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GottaLaff :blobsad:

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Kirk argued in the 1950s that if the American middle class — then under half of Americans — ever grew too large and well paid, then such access to “wealth” would produce a social disaster. His followers warned that under such circumstances minorities would forget their “place” in society, women would demand equality with men, and young people would no longer respect their elders.”

https://www.rawstory.com/mudsill-theory/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@StillIRise1963

fucking dirty sordid billionaires got their little cabal together to seize the means of government from a sovereign people. We should call it a coup.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=issmDdjBa5w

finestructure, to swift
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“With the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.

Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.”

https://tech.phlux.us/Juice-Sucking-Servers-Part-Trois/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@finestructure

After working in the nether regions of Java (for embedded no less), I approve of this development.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to random
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@economics@a.gup.pe


Sat @9am PST

starts in 2hrs

Ann returns!

https://www.youtube.com/live/MNpVQvgzn30

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@economics

18 min

MMT > mainstream theory.

https://youtu.be/IPVkNrRhFPc

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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5 min

informative: snow can increase but warmer conditions alter snow cover days. More snow fall is not the same as more snow cover in total. (because it melts faster for one).

https://youtu.be/GAMFj0IkbrQ

dlakelan, to socialism
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So, every other subthread is someone talking this and that with very poor commonality of definitions. So here's one to try on for size:

Capitalism: a system of economics in which the state determines through threat of violence a special group of people who have exclusive say in how capital goods are used.

That covers for example both the USA, and USSR pretty well. any other capitalist countries we'd like to discuss?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dlakelan @Cirdan

But that’s about as much of a social migration as any other transition. Commons capitalism would require the same legal and social evolution. I remain un moved wrt to “oh well a few people here” or that the average size is small. Or even of raising capital.

The argument feels logical fallacy-ish.

Ace Hardware is a retailer’s coop for instance. It’s a coop of small businesses. At the local level, employee owners run their affairs as they see fit.

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@dlakelan @Cirdan

Another point on this is capitalism didn’t spring whole cloth from feudalism, it grew largely organically but also with coercions (enclosures). The general sense transitions are a matter of creativity and variety to address issues as they arise.

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@Cirdan @dlakelan

That would make an interesting piece,

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@Cirdan @dlakelan

There are a couple of reasons. One enculturation. Two banking doesn’t understand them and it’s a challenge. Three they face constant pressure to sell out. Four, consolidation in the economy.

Even though co-op stores are often far more efficient, they get hammered by existing whales.

Ace Hardware is a staple of local hardware stores in the US. It’s a coop of retail shops. These are of whatever nature. But they enjoy branding and economies of scale, some thing like HomeDepot.

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@dlakelan @Cirdan

Yanis Varoufakis explored a specific kind of coop in Another Now.

It’s on my pile and partially read, but I know from interviews that bonuses, investment v distribution are all addressed. Profits don’t exist here. Net proceeds are distributed, or invested. “profits” don’t property exist here. Also equity to gain a vote doesn’t figure into this outside perhaps a trial period.

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@Cirdan @dlakelan

for operational lending or capital investment? Consider businesses embedded in community. What does it mean to liquidate a company.

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@Cirdan

Yes, I’ve pointed out the nature of Ace. I still wanna give you a wedgie.. “give employees”? Like because the unwashed need to have things ordered for them? You see where my discomfort is here?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Cirdan the unfinished business of the enlightenment was to bring democracy to the work place. The last leg is monetary system reform. Usury+pricing mechanism is a core driver of inequality. You need inflation and interest free systems, as Gessell specifies in Friegeld. Such systems existed in the past, and some local systems exist today.

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Keen worked out the math. Credit + pricing system intrinsically drive inequality in down turns.

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