• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I feel like half of the blame capitalism gets is valid, but the other half is just society. I don’t care what kind of system you’re under, you’re going to have to deal with other people.

    Oh, and if you try the system where you don’t have to deal with people, that just means other people end up handling you.

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      14 days ago

      In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.

      The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.

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      14 days ago

      It matters a lot though what kind of goal the system incentivises. Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits.

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      14 days ago

      Could you clarify on what you mean with “dealing with people”? I’m not really sure the point you’re trying to make with that

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        14 days ago

        The complaint that got blamed on capitalism was:

        The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

        and if there’s one entity/person most responsible for that, it’s Putin or the GOP. Most of it is political, and very little to do with capitalism itself. Except that capitalism surrounds and is intertwined with everything.

        Still, if you get rid of capitalism, it doesn’t get rid of politics. I’d argue that the root of the issue is the GOP trying to hoard power (money and otherwise), and power is going to exist with or without capitalism. Is North Korea capitalist? Do they have issues with disinfo?

        This Christian Sharia Law movement doesn’t exist for money.

        • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          12 days ago

          Capitalism itself is political. But the point I was making was that capitalism was the driving force of enshittenfication of all our technology that could be used for helping us all but instead it’s only about profit. Which is capitalism…

          • Serinus@lemmy.world
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            12 days ago

            Two of the largest drivers are religion, christians wanting their Sharia Law, and Russia taking political control of the US.

            Capitalism is in the top three, sure. It’s also part of the driver of that technology.

            I don’t think we should worship capitalism as we have, but I don’t think getting rid of capitalism as a whole solves more problems than it creates.

            Give me capitalism with heavy socialist controls and political separation please, thanks. The general idea of using money as a measure of what society owes you isn’t terrible. It’s allowing that measure to get so out of whack and have such inordinate control of everything that is the problem.