The spectre of communism is haunting the Fediverse

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  • This question comes from the “what if everyone just wants to do nothing” to justify the existence of a system in which if you are not able to work you die.

    Everyone is guaranteed a job, so if they don’t want to then they will just have less money to go around, or maybe they wouldn’t even need to if what they did is automated. However, regardless of whether they work or not, they are guaranteed food and housing. So they just get to do whatever they want. In a communist system someone livelihood is not tied to a job.












  • Spectre@lemmy.mlOPtoTechnology@beehaw.orgSo, Linus Torvalds is a jerk
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    4 months ago

    And it feels very naive to believe that people change just because they are called out on it and they have to say so to save whatever is left of their reputation. It is even more naive to believe so when the guy hasn’t improve a tiny bit.

    Saying that he improved and we should just shut up about it just because he said so, it is literal gaslighting dressed in “just put the other cheek” masochism and giving green light to abuser just because they lie about their supposed improvement




  • Spectre@lemmy.mlOPtoTechnology@beehaw.orgSo, Linus Torvalds is a jerk
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    4 months ago

    Believing that basic human decency must be earned on the basis on intellectual achievements is “good principle”?

    Saying “respect must be earned” but giving disrespect freely and abundantly is good principle?

    This argument is just a cult of intellect even to the detriment of society, low-key eugenics.