Says while paying money to the person they’re telling about for a blue marker
How many Lemmy instances are hosted on AWS?
Curious! I am very intelligent.
All these people shitting on you acting like there aren’t a bunch of easy-to-use alternatives. This is one of those cases where a boycott is actually feasible. So many people here with more opinion than knowledge.
As long as a single human being is homeless or hungry, billionaires should not exist.
Billionaires shouldn't exist. Period.
Technicaly That is very dependent on the value of currency current or future one
Americans be like
So we're going to support a democratic system to tax people and service the underprivileged, right?
We're going to do that, right?
Sounds good to me
No objections here
We got all the dystopia and none of the cool futuretech.
Low latency cell phone coverage anywhere on the planet using LEO satellites is undeniably cool future tech.
I would like this but also have those phones have a no logs policy so they cannot be used to track you or figure out where you were previously, at least without your consent.
Exactly. I would like cybernetic arms and legs and eyes that let me scan everything. But instead we get the most boring dystopia.
I do somewhat disagree with this. Don't get me wrong, I'm very much on the eat the rich train. But, while not due to elons personal "brilliance" space x has cut the cost of going to space by a huge amount. And so many amazing things have come out of the space program
Sure, if by "Elon's brilliance" you mean decades of Congress forcing NASA to outsource plus a whole lot of engineers none of whom are also CEO
while not due to elons personal “brilliance”
Why can't we do both? How many billionaires are there? How many of them have their own space company? I'm no mathologist but something doesn't add up.
The real question is how do you define best system. I bet those billionaires think this is in fact a pretty good system. Though they are probably never satisfied, so they wouldn't say best until they could snap thier fingers and a million people would start working to make whatever idea popped into thier head happen.
Gatcha addicts.
All of them. Gambling addicts addicted to watching numbers grow.
No, see, I made all my money by inheriting it, and because I'm rich and wealthy that means that god must love me, and therefore I must be a good person inherently. People are poor because god doesn't love them, therefore they must be bad people. Duh. /s
[Moe throwing Barney out meme with label "divine right of kings" on first panel and "oligarchy" on second panel]
The plan is going well. Now all we gotta do is convince all those sonobabiches to get on a Tesla rocket to Mars. As soon as that shit is outta here, we cut off communication and problem solved.
Sharing twitter posts in a meme sub isn't the best system either. Don't expect anything to change with the current quality of discussion.
The fact that progressives have decided to hate the space industry, probably because Elon is a prominent figure in it, really rubs me the wrong way. It's regressive bullshit under the guise of a moral assertion.
Honestly I've noticed a lot of anti intellectualism from progressives over the past few years. You guys hate STEM, hate emerging tech, and hate people who work in emerging tech. While they stress "being informed", all that really means is watching some 15 minute YouTube clip from a comedian pretending to be a journalist or reading an article from an obviously biased website, then adopting all the assertions as their own viewpoints.
If anyone disagrees with that worldview, they are ridiculed for being either morally or intellectually inferior. Usually there's some literal schoolyard level insult thrown in. I don't like the cyber truck, but calling anyone who drives it a "cybercuck" is the kind of shit I would expect from middle schoolers.
It's absolutely exhausting.
There's a way to do things, and then there's a way to do things well. It may be that many progressives are no longer interested in progressing for the sake of progression. Rather that they're trying to create not just a more "advanced" world but a better, more beautiful one.
Billionaires and starving people tend to live in different countries though. What ever makes someone a billionaire in the US isn't probably the same thing that makes someone else starve in Africa. One could even say that thanks to the wealthy westerners there's less and less starving people in those places. There's been a huge decrease in world wide poverty over the last few decades.
Go back to Xitter and say that to Elon, he likes people blowing smoke up his ass
He did say "one could say". And I imagine an argument could be made. I would love to see either side of it with some data. It would be interesting. Like one could talk about how bill gates has poured money into Africa that might not have gone there otherwise. And then the response could outline how the money was taken out of Africa to make the billionaires, though I am not sure if Microsoft makes a lot of money in Africa our not. And I would love to have an informed rebuttal for my own use.
Ironically I came to Lemmy with the hope of meeting less people like you who act like a complete jerk towards strangers for no reason.
Username checks out.
I hate to burst any utopian bubbles out there, but the problem with society ultimately isn't capitalism, or communism, or socialism, or fascism, or any other system of government or economics. The problem with society is people. We are the problem. While some systems of government are certainly better than others at protecting us from our ourselves, eventually they all crumble and succumb to our depravity.
"We have met the enemy, and they are us" -Pogo
Be the change you want to see! Load up on cold cathode tubes and shove them in your PC or wherever else you can think of!
Well if it isn't the best system why is it the system we have? Survival of the fittest, duh!
It's Neo, also I kinda agree. Though how to fix it is the tricky part.
It’s neon.
Some old book has a monologue where a character says “I am neon” and the context is that they see themselves as beautiful and transient.
The subtext is that the neon gas in a neon light is just a medium power is passed through to produce some useful outcome through its interaction with the coating in the lamp (light). The neon itself is thrown away when it outlived its usefulness and no one who receives the light of it cares where it went or what happened to it or why.
Nine out of ten people with enough money and power to steer the system to massively favour them think that things are perfectly fine as they are. Now carry on, peon.
