I feel like people dunk on the "you're criticizing capitalism from your iphone" callout without acknowledging its fundamental correctness. Innovation and the production of consumer goods are two things that capitalism really is better at, whatever your political stancehttps://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1255758942833172490 …
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The inability of the socialist bloc to make computers, even with a massive program of industrial espionage, had severe repercussions on both the Soviet military and central planning, and was one reason the whole system went belly up. It's a topic I would like to learn more about
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You're criticising communism from an iPhone manufactured in a country with a communist government?
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I'm criticizing it from a shitty machine with an unnecessary TouchBar that broke immediately on purchase. There are far more interesting avenues of attack available
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I can’t tell if this is trolling or serious. We didn’t choose to be born into a capitalist society where the best tech is both necessary and philosophically problematic. Should we be uber-principled and try to photosynthesise to avoid participating in this choiceless hell?
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This is a serious argument. My point is not to avoid technology, but to seriously address the fact that it was only a free enterprise system with significant protections on private property (one also seeded by massive government spending) that was able to produce a tech economy.
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It’s coherent to prefer a world in which the iPhone was never made, but, finding oneself in this world, to still buy one.
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Yes, that is true.
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that makes some sense
can I still use my improvised datapad to argue for a replicator-based economy, though?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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