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If humans weren't greedy dicks then capitalism or any other form of government would work perfectly. You can't force humans to not be greedy dicks. No matter what system is being instituted it is susceptible to greedy dicks.
We can regulate greedy dick behaviour
Madame Guillotine can help with that
Yes we can, via laws & regulation (which are also laws). You have no clue about what unrestricted greed does to people especially, on the recieving end
Nope, doesn't work because power obsessed sociopaths worm their way into government and change the laws
How naive are you?
Yes if you don't enforce it, but you don't want to enforce it now, do you. You love greed until you are on the receiving end
You can't even understand your own mother and here you are making bold assumptions about the personal values of someone you met on the internet half an hour ago. Fucking classic reddit right there man
Greed is the source of nearly all human misery and it is not necessary for life at all, and I have personally witnessed what it has done to people
I do not love greed in any form and the fact you just stated that with such effortless confidence tells me our society really isn't worth saving.
And now these statements, despite being only minor glimpses into my value system will of course immediately fill you with ten thousand assumptions as to who I am or what I think.
That's mental illness friend
< Bold assumption about all of humanity >
<Name calling/Labelling>
They're coming out with some really weird blazor libraries these days.
Dammit, missed the code tags
I mean, nobody has to reply on a public internet forum.
Unless you are being forced to reply...wait...that would explain a lot.
Ok, if you are being forced to reply to internet messages against your will, try and add some sort of code in the replies so we can try get you out of that environment, it sounds awful.
Also electrons don't die, don't be silly.
There is, of course, the electron cycle of transmigration of states.
It's like they don't even teach basic electrotheism in school anymore, smh.
Are you familiar with anti-trust laws ? Anti-corruption laws ?
According to you they shouldn't exist, because a crafty psychopath will get in anyway & yes you do love being greedy as long as it benefits you, why else would you be defending capitalism.
Socialism HAS been tried & it works. You see I want everyone to get welfare, because with it you can have a safety net against the abusive owner-class. BTW, I've never been on reddit (I don't even have a twitter account)
So I'll be upfront and say i don't know shit about socialism as a concept.
Do you have any examples of socialism that has worked (or is currently working) at modern nation scales ?
I'm genuinely not picking a fight, just looking for examples to read up on.
Cuba, Laos, Vietnam & the state of Kerala in India. China too (but they shifted to state-capitalism). Most of Latin America were electing socialist leaders as well. (Until some coup came along)
Thanks
oh no, an internet report !
this might even go on my permanent internet record, egads.
But capitalism isn't a form of government tho.
Nor is communism of even feudalism.
Oops you're right I meant economic system
There are human societies were greed is not accepted.
I welcome you to inform us of this utopia you speak of.
Which ones? Which ones don't damage their land or steal children from enemies or rape or steal? Please don't try to say any indigenous tribes because they are all guilty of one or more these.
Proof that lemmy is a failed experiment already, this asshole has five upvotes
Any indigenous tribe. But seriously it was not long ago that no professional fishermen anywhere would ever overfish.
Only because they weren't capable of it lmao.
There's at least some evidence supporting human driven extinctions as far back as some of the earliest 'modern' (ie Homo sapien) hominid populations.
this is only true to the smallest of extents, there were plenty that had those behaviors, survivorship bias is not a good footing for an argument.
Survivorship bias is so important to remember when talking about human societies. Even our perceptions and knowledge of indigenous tribes is limited by survivorship bias. Consider that there may have been many more "peaceful" or "non-greedy" tribes, but they were conquered by groups of people that were more violent and selfish. There must be so many tribes that have been wiped away without a trace, tribes we know nothing about.
But the real barrier to this hypothetical "non-greedy population" idea is the matter of scale. A peaceful village of 100 people is easier to create and maintain than a peaceful global population of 8+ billion. Even if indigenous villages managed to build such utopias where greed doesn't exist, their models wouldn't easily scale to the world we live in now.
Amish
The Amish are highly discouraged from getting an education of the high school level and beyond.
Members are shunned by the community and family of they decide to leave the faith.
duck chasing meme Which human societies?
Our entire schtick is co operation, it's literally why we're the dominant life form
Your generalization is false
The majority of humanity are not greedy or obsessed with profit
The problem is that the few ridiculously greedy sociopaths that do arise per-capita are just so FUCKDAMN good at amassing power and wealth that we assume it's the natural lot of all people
So we just test and dispose of sociopaths at birth, problem solved. We already have the tests for it.
Don't look at me like that
and thankfully those sociopaths have enough money to get rid of idiots with those ideas that get too close to power.
Yep, which is why we need to use nontraditional power tactics like leveraging drones and cyber attacks as well as flashmob tactics and social media control
Money buys you a private army but not loyalty, we need to start early and get idealists positioned in those private armies
Make inroads with the children of billionaires tired of their parents' excesses, this was a valuable vector during the French Revolution that almost no one talks about
More than anything we need to accept the fact that no amount of signs or shouts are going to stop the ultra wealthy from destroying everything for more imaginary numbers in an already unspendable bank account
It's still objectively eugenics to target people based on genetic conditions, especially if the genetic condition has a not wholly undesirable result.
You're putting the cart before the horse. Capitalism uses the threat of poverty and the profit motive to condition humans into being greedy dicks.