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Man AOC is just the best.
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This is an elite win-win kinda troll
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It turns there was one mythological persuadable Republican and it was Mittens. Well done eDems, just several million more voters to go.
Eh. The earth feels like it’s moving a bit right this second. This ‘nothing gets done ever’ meta is getting really long in the tooth, and the longer it goes without a change the bigger the change generally is.
Oh I agree. I just think that the eDems and their consultants think there are more Romneys out there than their really are. I have always been a big believer in activating the base as a strategy rather than fighting tooth and nail for a tiny number of persuadable voters. That’s all.
Free markets full of worker owned co-ops sounds like it’s a lot different than capitalism with controls to me.
So where this meta in capitalism went wrong was with the anti snowball mechanics. One of the biggest structural problems with capitalism, as a game, is that with the results of the game carrying forward to each next round (any time unit), and those results granting advantages in future rounds, is that the winners begin to experience a pretty strong snowball effect.
Now in actual games the way you fix that is that you make it so that each successive win is worth a little bit less, until towards the end you’re barely gaining anything at all.
We’ve been playing without a really necessary game mechanic since forever basically.
The thing I like so much about UBI is that it’s a lot like passing go in monopoly. It gives each person the opportunity to get a certain floor under them from which to make choices without being pressured to do so.
The biggest difference between being poor and not being poor is that as a poor person you very frequently are choosing between awful options, and the choice to just refuse all of them and go live a minimalist life at home for a week until they come to their senses isn’t available. That’s how you end up with foreign women who can’t speak english and almost certainly don’t have papers cleaning your hotel room for some trivial amount of money I don’t want to know because depression.
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Nerf billionaires! Way too OP in current patch.
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Yup that’s the joke, except it’s a really good way to describe what’s actually going on.
There’s this whole dimension that the upper class gets to play in that most lower class people don’t: time. They get to do stuff like make investments that won’t pay off for ten years, when a poor family can’t afford to buy essentials in bulk for a discount.
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Dude, the capitalists are the drop. They are not playing against us, they’re just skimming the action… as we play against each other in a negative sum game.
The way you fix that is we organize our own game (“building the new world in the shell of the old”), and show the capitalists the door (“abolition of the wage system”).
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