Listen, I'm not pro-Reddit. In fact, I've stopped using it.
But claiming that the users provide all of the value to Reddit by being their volunteer content creators, and Reddit itself adds no value, is a bit like when libertarians pretend that infrastructure plays no role in facilitating private corporate profits.
It also implies that all the work that someone like @ernest and the other devs at Kbin and Lemmy and such contribute no value.
"It is not difficult, indeed, to see the absurdity of naming a few men and saying to them, “Make laws regulating all our spheres of activity, although not one of you knows anything about
them!” "
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread #communism#socialism#anarchism#libertarianism
"Citizens were challenging big business, holding them accountable, demanding governmental oversight, exercising their democratic rights. To [Lewis] Powell, the corporate lawyer and perennial corporate board member, this was a bridge too far. The chorus must be killed, power returned to the kings.
The future Supreme Court Justice went on to outline in detail how the corporate world must retake control and influence over every aspect of American life."
One of the most successful parts of the Powell strategy has been the reframing of "liberty". From it's original meaning; freedom from tyranny, to the freedom to be a tyrant (eg ZuckerBorg, Bezos, Thiel, Musk etc). Buying into this framing...
"Limitarianism v Libertarianism"
... implies we can only have economic justice at the cost of political freedom (a la China). I call bollox on this.
#Objectivism is a peculiar #philosophy formulated by novelist Ayn Rand. It sports a range of convoluted tenets, but is most infamous for redefining #greed as the prime moral virtue — and, to take things even further, literally redefining altruism as evil. The name "objectivism" was chosen because, as Rand was the single smartest person in the history of the world, anything she said had to be "objective".
As one might imagine, objectivism is very popular amongst those who already hold a rather egocentric view of the world. It lets them say, "Hey, I'm not being a selfish jerk, I'm following a philosophy!". Of course, this incredibly short-sighted and narrow outlook — only seeking short-term gains no matter the cost to everyone else — will not even maximize long-term individual gains (let alone short- or long-term societal gain).
High-functioning autistic people should come out of the shadows.
They should openly say that they are best suited to rule and have the best ideas, i.e. libertarian ones.
This should not be an insult to Korwin or Mentzen that they are autistic (Asperger's), it should be an open advantage, and only such people should be admitted to the party.
Tittar på en vanlig gatlykta och tänker på hur mycket logistik och infrastruktur som krävs för att få den på plats och att fungera. Visa mig en "entreprenör" som fixar det ensam.
"f you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, Covid vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism."
Think about the destruction of this unique community treasure the next time some libertarian is glibly trying to persuade you that minimizing constraints on private property will maximize social welfare.
Radical pay-what-you-can restaurant faces eviction from mill it refurbished | Environment | The Guardian
Workers unite! Form unions to gain collective strength against bosses. Recognize that harm to one worker reflects the systemic exploitation affecting all workers. We have a world to win!
#SiliconValley#Billionaires#Libertarianism: "The big idea: “Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle.” Normal people define that as the imperative of seeking to prevent and contain certain potentially civilization-ending potentialities like nuclear holocaust and pandemic. Andreessen, conversely, calls precaution “perhaps the most catastrophic mistake in Western society in my lifetime … deeply immoral, and we must jettison it with extreme prejudice.”
What ought be embraced in its stead, naturally, is markets, because “they divert people who otherwise would raise armies and start religions into peacefully productive pursuits.” (The opening of markets, as all students know, having everywhere and always been the most peaceful pursuit known to humanity.)
What stands in the way of the recognition of this so self-evident truth? Ideas like “sustainability,” “stakeholder capitalism,” “social responsibility,” “tech ethics,” “trust and safety,” and “risk management,” which must be eliminated—“with extreme prejudice.” According to the logic of the piece, I suppose, this must happen in order to nip in the bud the armies we can expect the avatars of ethics and responsibility to raise any day now.
Basically, the manifesto is an argument, dressed up in the raiment of morality, about power: Andreessen and people like him should get to make decisions to reorder life as we know it without interference from anyone else. Which will be quite relevant to know for the saga ahead, once you see the style of moral judgment this most powerful of human actors displays behind closed doors." https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/
"It is certain that the coming Revolution — like in that respect to the Revolution of 1848 — will burst upon us in the middle of a great industrial crisis. Things have been seething for half a century now, and can only go from bad to worse. Everything tends that way — new nations entering the, lists of international trade and fighting for possession of the world’s markets, wars, taxes ever increasing."
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread #communism#socialism#anarchism#libertarianism
JFC. The brazen and naked hypocrisy of the leader of a third party openly using the party's platform and funds to support a different party's candidate is just revolting. That the candidate being supported is a fascist with polar-opposite ideals to #libertarianism is just icing on the cake. The #Libertarian party deserves better. McArdle is a pathetic crony MAGA sham.
QT: https://mastodon.social/@fakertarians/112554694716492550
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