Which specific economic model will scale globally and is better at distribution of scarce resources than capitalism?

Literally every ideology-driven argument falls apart when it’s time to talk implementation. Theory is nice for winning Internet arguments with incels. The real challenge is making it work in the real world.

I submit that, if we normalized the notion of ethical capitalism - a capitalism that intelligently recognized all systems have limits, and eternal growth is impossible and pursuing profit at any cost is inhuman. Governments can put necessary checks in place, but society needs to change its values. Ethical capitalism requires a population willing to go without when the real costs of convenience sets the world on fire.

Now show me a society with values that supports delayed gratification as a moral value. I’ll wait.

Who’s european in this conversation? I’m not.

Projection ain’t just for the cinemas, my guy.

Maybe instead of making assumptions, try asking questions instead. You don’t know as much as you assume.

Shits too important to waste effort on lost causes.

If you really believed that, you’d be focusing your efforts elsewhere.

2025 was the first time since 2017

Your timeline is misaligned by at least a decade and missing the forest for the trees. In 2025, we’re on the brink of WWIII. The DNC has been hand-in-iron-fist with the GQP since 9/11 and the Patriot Act. Both parties merrily marching us to fascist authoritarianism. The only disagreement being who’d be the eventual Fuhrer.

But shit changed, and if Martin paves the wave for FDR 2.0

This is the problem with Dems. They’re fixated on repeating the mistakes of the past because they’ve only read the sanitized versions of history used in public schools. FDR 1.0 caused the double-dip in the Great Depression with his New Deal. Friedman’s Economic History of the United States covered it thoroughly. Maybe try reading some more modern economics strategies, like UBI, or wildly crazy shit like re-enacting the prohibition against Congress owning securities, enacting anti-gerrymandering legislation, and open-auditing of all electronic voting machines, plus enacting a general cap on all campaign expenditures of a nominal value with any remainders automatically allocated to the federal treasury to restore impartiality to our elected representatives.

The anger you’re seeing is because not only is the process long, but the outcomes are stupid and not worthwhile. Biden put on a demonstration of what competent leadership looks like. It was impressive to watch the things his cabinet was accomplishing. If it were any other yesteryear, it would have been an administration lauded for its competence.

But literally the one thing they didn’t touch was any of the linchpins to their lucrative kleptocratic establishment. All of the mechanisms that could have prevented allowing a known pedophile a second term in the oval office would have required addressing systemic corruptions that would have disturbed their seats of power. Instead, the Biden administration had other priorities instead of preventing what did happen - a rigged election. Thanks for the “assist”, Elon. As a reward for his help, Elon gets to rummage around in federal databases destroying evidence of this and other crimes. And Dems get to watch once again, as the minority party plays them for the fools they are.

You might not think this is the time to quit. I don’t think you should have ever started because you’re still pulling for the wrong team. There is no evidence to suggest your efforts are anything but too little, much too late.

At this point, I am incredibly skeptical that America has a peaceful way out of the current situation we’re in. Dems are very much not anti-authoritarian. They will not give up the executive powers that the GQP has so graciously secured for them. That’s the one thing you can always count on. Power, once centralized, is only ever decentralized through violence.

Nobody said that was the only step. Don’t be daft.

The rest of this will get fixed (as much as it can be considered “fixed”) after November, when the impeachments start. Everybody with a handful of neurons to rub together knows that. Steve Bannon’s been chirping about how they’re all going to prison after November for months now.

Between then and now is damage control. Starting with getting the pedo out of the White House.

Iran’s going to be a problem for years to come. There’s very little we can do about it now. We can stop the aggression. We can’t force the strait open. That’s up to the Iranians. And they’ve been spending recent weeks dragging neighboring countries into this mess. So, now nearly the entire middle east is involved. When we pull our folks out, we cannot guarantee what happens next. Israel seems fairly intent on continuing to pursue their goals in the region with or without us.

Plus, now China’s playing games in the South Pacific in response to threats from PedoTUS and there’s recent information that Russia’s entire military effort in Ukraine is propped up by China as well. Iran, similarly, is propped up by Russian and Chinese munitions. This entire fiasco in the strait is part of a much, much bigger US-China conflict that we’ll be dealing with for quite a while.

The global balance of power has irrevocably shifted.

I don’t understand how people keep falling for billionaire propaganda.

Because there is, quite literally, nothing else. Who is talking about it being fixed besides you? Anybody with any credibility?

The DNC’s problem is exemplified by the old joke - If a Democrat found a magic lamp, rubbed it, and got three wishes from a djinn, they’d negotiate down to one and then wish for whatever the nearest Republican wants.

The DNC doesn’t stand for anything beyond lining the pockets of insider traders like Nancy Pelosi. Same as the Republicans, just minus all the goosestepping, conspiracy theories, and shilling for supplements. They aren’t the same, but being the only alternative doesn’t inherently make them better by default. They lost the plot trying to make the Clintons into a dynasty.

Fixing the systemic problems at the root of this goes all the way back to how these parties responded to Ross Perot and the elimination of third party viability. A strictly two party system is not a functional democracy. It’s a one party system masquerading as two parties.

There’s really one political party in the USA - the monied party. Which is why there’s so much billionaire propaganda for people to fall for.

Call your representatives. Demand they invoke the 25th amendment or Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution. Demand they remove an obviously demented and incompetent President from office.

The point is, literally nobody reacts to subway malfunctions with, “and we call this progress???” as if returning to previous modes of transport is somehow the right answer to problems with far less drastic solutions than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

LLMs are a new technology that people are still figuring out how to use effectively. Part of that process is becoming reliant upon “the new way of doing things” to prove that one can rely on it. Clearly, there’s more work to be done. (My dayjob includes working on this same reliability problem.)

One can argue the wisdom of being an early adopter in any new technology. Some thirty years ago, I was told I was insane for going all-in on Linux. The times change. The sanctimoniousness of the peanut gallery hasn’t. The lunatics betting the farm on all that wacky open source stuff three decades ago turned out to have been largely right, despite the numerous failed ventures involved in getting to here.

This is just how the new technology cycle works. With every new tech, a whole lot of people discover all of the ways it doesn’t work before somebody figures out the way to make it work more reliably than any alternative.

Funny how nobody seems to use this argument every time there’s a problem with the NYC subway.

You were also likely taught that the genocide of indigenous Americans was a past event, too.

I have met people who did not realize that indigenous Americans still exist.

Nice. Good for him.

I first met Chris around 2006 or so. Always been a decent person and very dedicated OSS contributor.

Oh good. Next wave counter-culture is starting to name itself. This is a fun period in any movement.

I was present for the early copyleft era that corporate software development exploited then squashed with more “business-friendly” OSS licenses. Now we’re seeing the mega-scale tech companies enshittifying their products necessitating a new wave of open-information counter-culture to fight the Big Tech birthed from the post-dot-com OSS movement.

History doesn’t repeat itself. It often rhymes.