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    1. Kind of. The market can have Capitalist entities and Socialist entities, but the market itself isn't Capitalist.
    2. Not necessarily. Co-operatives are more difficult to start in a predominantly Capitalist system, and Capitalist entities usually can exploit their workers more in order to gain temporary competitive advantage. I don't believe this is sufficient reasoning to value Capitalism over Socialist entities.

    I'm not a Market Socialist, for clarification, as I do think there are issues. However, Capitalism isn't markets.

  • The Soviet Union was anti-trade union, and pro-Soviet, ie worker councils. The Soviet Union had numerous problems, especially with beaurocracy, but fundamentally it was a Worker state, owned and run by the Soviets, and thus can be considered Socialist (regardless of my personal issues with it).

    There are several attempts at replicating some form of Worker Democracy in Capitalist countries, but ultimately short of ownership none of this functionally makes a massive difference. Definitely a step in the right direction, but without worker ownership it is more to appease workers and uphold Capitalism, than actually giving workers control.

    Don't misunderstand this comment to say that codetermination is bad, it's good, just not as good as it could be.

  • Ownership of Capital. Capitalism has markets, but not all market systems are Capitalist.

    Market Socialism, for example, has competing worker-owned entities like Co-operatives in a market system, with no Capitalists.

    Capitalism is a relatively new phenomena in the grand scheme of things.

  • For one, I wouldn't recommend a clown that supports removing the minimum wage, or argues that colonization was a good thing. Recommending a far-right Chicago economist, who is far-right even by Chicago school standards, is laughably absurd.

    I have many positions of my own. Decentralization is key, as is democratization, and this extends to production. I think protecting worker power is key, and I think Imperialism and colonization are terrible. As such, I can't agree with recommending Sowell.

    All of those are reasons why I'm a leftist and am on Lemmy, rather than a Capitalist site like Reddit.

  • Yep, that's why decentralization is so important, and why leftist organizational structure ie decentralization and democratization of production is going to be so critical moving forward.

  • I literally gave the KCIA as an example, the ROK itself is designed by the US.

    You're clearly not interested in answering honestly or directly, just dodging and justifying Imperialism, rather than sovereignty.

  • The ROK was built by the US, and modeled as they saw fit. You're making the same argument that the US constitution doesn't impact modern American life, because George Washington is dead. That's a fallacy, it hasn't been restructured in any meaningful capacity.

    Yes, the ROK has peacetime control. They don't have wartime control, despite posturing. The US still keeps the ROK on a leash, and is waiting for the time when they don't even need to directly control the ROK as they will be subservient regardless.

    You really love Imperialism, I guess.

  • Bethesda has been going downhill ever since Morrowind, to be fair. It's just that with each release, the number of disgruntled people have been growing, and with Starfield its finally the majority opinion.

  • Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution are inseparable from one another. The failure of 20th century Socialist states to adequately address green energy goals can be attributed to rapid industrialization to attempt to keep pace with Capitalist entities.

    Going forward, the reason why Green Energy isn't the standard in the US is due to oil companies, not efficiency. The profit motive stands in direct confrontation with the good of all.

    That's just Climate Change, too. Capitalism's failures of hierarchical and consumerist nature will exist as long as Capitalism exists.

    Not every problem is because of Capitalism, but many are, and at the end of the day this is just a meme.

  • -Moves goalposts the entire time and refuses to admit that the US has power over the people of South Korea

    -baselessly claims I'm a liar for touching grass and talking to people who have been directly impacted by what I'm talking about

    Lol

  • It really isn't, which is funny. It does many things far better than Skyrim or Fallout 4, such as quest design and role playing, it just can't rely on fantastic lore written by people that either no longer work for the company or never did. Now that they are given the opportunity to be wholly original, the issues they've been having ever since Morrowind are shown at full force.

  • What have I made up, exactly? That I touch grass and am close with many South Korean immigrants? If that's what you take issue with, I can walk away from this convo knowing that I was 100% correct the entire time, and you just cope and mald, calling me a liar, despite me being 100% correct about everything I've said leading up to this recent comment.

  • Yes, I have. The majority of my knowledge of South Korean politics comes from South Korean immigrants, and confirmation via independent research on my own. You aren't introducing any cognitive dissonance, you're just giving me the opportunity to yet again prove you wrong.