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Capitalism and Computers interact a lot, even though they are pretty much entirely completely causally and practically uncoupled. capitalism is an economic system and computers are just a fancy way to do math quickly, they fundamental theory of neither relies on the underlying mechanism of the other. capitalism is pretty bad tho sometimes i think everyone can agree, and computers actually pretty clearly amplify the badness. this is different than just the bitcoin thread which is about a specific negative interaction between capitalism and computers; it is like a rectangle and a square, or general and special relativity, bitcoin is a subset of "capitalism and computers together are worse than the sum of their parts." also i want to say i think that computers would actually just be straight up good if there wasn't capitalism. I think therefore that this thread spans multiple threads, and even subforums. also: never stop posting
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Stereotype posted:Capitalism and Computers interact a lot, even though they are pretty much entirely completely causally and practically uncoupled. capitalism is an economic system and computers are just a fancy way to do math quickly, they fundamental theory of neither relies on the underlying mechanism of the other. capitalism is pretty bad tho sometimes i think everyone can agree, and computers actually pretty clearly amplify the badness. this is different than just the bitcoin thread which is about a specific negative interaction between capitalism and computers; it is like a rectangle and a square, or general and special relativity, bitcoin is a subset of "capitalism and computers together are worse than the sum of their parts." also i want to say i think that computers would actually just be straight up good if there wasn't capitalism. thanks op, now you really got me thinking…
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fart simpson posted:thanks op, now you really got me thinking… that's great to hear! i love it when we achieve the key goal of the internet: to foster knowledge and discussion
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i see now that putting things in [] brackets is like an Official Thing and i'm sorry that i did it. alternately mod: i appreciate your attempt to make this thread more attractive by removing a possibly divisive joke part of the thread title
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Oct 28, 2021 13:01
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capitalism bad
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Oct 28, 2021 13:23
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Zam Wesell posted:capitalism bad Wow! this is pretty controversial! well that's how it goes when you engage the collective consciousness: you get some subversive ideas
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a woman called up and asked about her sleeping medicine. she said she read it has a side effect of making her itchy and indeed she experienced this side effect. I then said you have to weigh up that side effect against the benefit. she then said that the medicine helped her sleep amazingly and couldn’t do without it.
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Oct 28, 2021 20:07
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Zam Wesell posted:capitalism bad and yet you touch computers, curious
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Oct 28, 2021 20:10
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people who complain about capitalism are like the people who want to get government out of their medicaid
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Oct 28, 2021 20:20
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capitalism good
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Oct 28, 2021 20:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2j_GPIqRA
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Oct 28, 2021 20:39
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Zam Wesell posted:capitalism bad
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Oct 28, 2021 21:10
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great thread, voted 1
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Oct 28, 2021 22:50
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didnt read op
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Oct 28, 2021 22:56
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I voted 5 because we need more threads
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Oct 28, 2021 22:56
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if you think about it capitalism lead to linux and linux is bad
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Oct 29, 2021 00:17
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capitalism is good if you are born into a wealthy family and like touching computers
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Oct 29, 2021 00:19
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Zlodo posted:and yet you touch computers, curious i don't
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i think computers are a trap for capitalists because poo poo on computers is so easy to disrupt and when the total outlay for a worker is like a couple hundred bucks there's no way to control the means of production unfortunately computers are a trap for everyone else, too
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