A few words about Karl Marx. They're comically topical, especially if we start with the most mindless version of communist politics. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
... It would be the absurd, straw-man version, if it weren't that people are idiots, so the most stupid version of anything tends to prevail
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... in the absence of an efficient, impersonal, competitive mechanism (capable of doing the intelligence sifting). *Ahem* capitalism. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
... So here's communist politics for dummies: a) The masses are being exploited b) [*some magic thing*] c) Communism! Don't laugh ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
b) is the workers take ownership of the means of production. Silicon Valley already has a working prototype of how.
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Replying to @iamtexture
Oh, sure. Silicon Valley Capital is drawing up the plans for its dispossession by "the workers". Meanwhile, on this planet ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
billions of dollars worth of ownership has been inarguably disbursed to workers.
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Replying to @iamtexture
Inarguable, a few "workers" will become capitalists. That's how it has always worked. Churn is good. ...
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... It's when worker interests start commanding over capital that it becomes dysfunctional. That will always be corrected.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Blockchain provides a platform for decentralized non-market based solutions to that problem.
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Replying to @iamtexture
Markets dissipate entropy. There's no other mechanism for that at the social scale.
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