pazukaza @ pazukaza @lemmy.ml

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Any system becomes scary when it reaches dystopian levels.

Going back to the main point, I thought you meant that the problem was wealth accumulation in general. In cooperatives, accumulating wealth is necessary for handling complex services. However, the same issues that happen in capitalism can also happen in large cooperatives. Companies can start bribing the government for their benefit, even if it goes against the environment or the interests of the majority of workers. Like a cooperative that does AI could bribe the government to relax AI restrictions, which could fuck the market for other cooperatives.

So I think even if we don't agree in how to implement a more socialized system, we both agree on:

• competition is important for a healthy environment.
• public sector should provide basic services that guarantee human rights are met.
• screw individual billionaires.
• wealth should be re-distributed, corruption screwed capitalism in the largest economies.
• Companies need wealth to provide complex services, even cooperatives. Wealth is power and this makes them prone to corruption.

We're just in a different point of the spectrum. My perspective is that we need to start moving towards a social democracy, it is the best migration to improve the conditions of the workers without being disruptive on what works today.

Python without type hints is torture. I always need to have the fucking docs opened for anything, and if the docs are bad you're screwed, get ready to read the source code. Like fucking hell man, just let me autocomplete this shit...

Well, it's not like you have any option. Browsers only run Javascript, right?

My problem with it is that it gives people too much freedom. They can write the code in very, VERY ugly ways... And they do. It's a language that let's you write a mess pretty easily.

That's really my only complaint. The ugliness happens mainly in:

• callback hell. For some reason some people still do callback hell in 2023.
• functions as objects. This is pretty neat actually, one of the best things in Javascript, but some people just abuse the hell out of it.

Come on, Javascript is pretty nasty. Trying to read that shit always gives me brain tumors. Why do they need to wrap every fucking thing in a function inside a function inside a function that is passed as a parameter to a function inside another function?

Like, bro, you know people are meant to understand what you just wrote?

It just gives too much freedom and people forget they need to write code that is easy to read for people who aren't totally familiar with the code base.

They even bring that shit into typescript. Like they are already using a language that is meant to fix that shit and they are like, nope, let me create 5 nested functions just because.

Why would they need you to send a message to collect your IP? They can send any request to their servers. Plus, what can they do with the public IP? Just know your general location, that's it. It's not like it tells them exactly where you live.

Oh man, that's not all, she's the first person to give me hell when I'm gaining weight.

It's like I'm a psychology experiment or something. I already know what to expect so it's fine.

Yeha, those games are kinda like a choreography, you're not totally free to do whatever you want. You're very restricted in what you can do and usually you have 1 or 2 options when you need to react.

Based on your input, you should give Breath of the Wild a try. It's a game in which creativity is the only limit. I didn't enjoy it that much because the combat is too easy, but then I saw what people can do when they get creative. It's really insane. I completed the game playing like a noob, never expected those things to be remotely possible, because nobody tells you what to do. Nobody tells you "here's how you do this insane combo". People just piece the mechanics together. I guess that's the beauty of Nintendo in general

Lol, that was actually pretty coherent.

My mother knows I'm not eating junk food... She comes to my apartment with a bucket of ice-cream and says "I brought this but I can take it if you don't want it".

It's like she enjoys seeing me crumble to temptation.

They created a business model around violating user privacy. Imagine if I asked "if slavery is no longer legal, how will the cotton fields be profitable?"

So, now being more realistic, just do ads without tracking people. Maybe ask people which types of ads they want to see instead of fucking spying on them to know every detail of their lives.

In that scenario, the only aggressor is the business owner then. Legal immigrants should be paid the same as native workers.

I thought the post was talking about illegal immigration.

If you haven't, it is pretty good. Somewhere between 8 and 9/10.

Wait until I bring my baseball bat to the rally.

Yeha, that's why I said the worst aggressors are the companies, but this doesn't mean that immigrants are free of guilt.

First, they are immigrating illegally, which isn't right. There's a lot of honest immigrants patiently waiting to be accepted, and these guys just say "fuck it" and break all the rules.

Second, they know they'll accept a low paying job as soon as they get their first offer. The money they are getting is a lot of money back home. It isn't a bad deal for them. After a few years they can go back home and be wealthy, even medium-high class. So it's not like they are in a bad deal.

Just because there is a big aggressor, doesn't mean there is a single aggressor.

I think the immigrant isn't a victim when they leave their country with the intent of being hired for a low wage, so they can send money to their families even if they live like shit in their new country. They'll be living by themselves in the developed country, so they don't need a salary to take care of a whole family, unlike the natives. They know what they are doing, they know what's up, it's all part of the plan.

Obviously, the company is the worst aggressor in this scenario, but the immigrant is no saint.

Yeha, it's fine. Everyone is allowed to have preferences. Why do you feel games like God of War are a waste of time?

Yeha, that doesn't sound bad at all. But in that scenario:

• cooperatives would still need to accumulate wealth in order to provide complex services, like car or chip manufacturers. Innovating on engines, processors, GPUs, phones... Requires large investments and risk.
• Everyone wouldn't be paid the same in those cooperatives, so workers still depend on their company being fair.
• Like any democratic system, it would be prone to corruption. Internal bribes could happen to benefit some members over others. Low skill workers could vote to have a system that removes personal incentives from high skill roles, pushing them to other companies.
• Cooperatives could still bribe the government.

Just because they are a bit more socialized, it doesn't mean they won't break when corruption touches them.

Public companies providing the basic services with no competition is another problem. No competition means no incentive to improve or be modernized. There's no frame of reference on what's a good service.

Plus, there's nothing scarier in my opinion than a corrupted and authoritarian government. A corrupted and absolute power? No thanks, not a risk worth taking. Every government can be corrupted but when it happens to an authoritarian one, shit hits the fan.

Yeha, I think that was the joke.

First, to clarify, I'm a social democrat, so I do believe workers shouldn't be exploited but I also think private property has a valuable purpose. I'm not far-right or a billionaire supporter.

Everything positive you're saying about communism is just about the idea of communism. Everything negative you're saying about capitalism is about its implementation in the real world. I don't think Venezuelans are escaping the country because they are happy, their human rights are being violated.

Again, I don't like talking about the problems of implementing these systems because it is just a reflection of human corruption, not the system itself.

I think the problem in any system is the government being corrupted. Right now capitalism is going wrong because the government can be bought by private interest. In an authoritarian system, corruption is an internal problem because they already have centralized power. In both cases, the worker class suffers.

If in capitalism the governments weren't corrupted, companies wouldn't become that large mostly because they are monopolies. Also, the government would severily punish them for exploiting their workers. None of these things are "normal" or accepted in capitalism, the same way a corrupted government denying people their basic needs is not normal or accepted in communism. But it can happen.

I don't know what the solution is. Human corruption fucks everything, I don't think changing systems will actually help at all. But that's not the point. To be honest, I think we're already fucked, corruption is too widespread. Anyone in power, left or right, just wants their cut. And if they actually try to do anything positive, they'll be sabotaged by the corruption forces that remain.

We have a real problem. I don't think capitalism is the root of the problem, and I don't think socialism or communism are the cure.

God of War, Dark Souls, Elden, The Witcher... All of these games have a system to optimiza your character without the need to grind for hours non-stop. Armored Core will also have a complex build system for the mechas.

The problem with Diablo for me is that it is just that, just building a character that hits hard. If you have a good build, everything is waaay too easy unless you are going into dungeons 20 levels above yours. And even then, it doesn't feel rewarding because killing the enemies isn't hard, it just takes too long. Like, it was taking me 10 seconds to kill a basic minion, and even that felt better than going into a dungeon and obliterating everything.

Maybe I could enjoy building a character if I didn't need to spend hours and hours grinding to level up and to get the right items with the right affixes. The grinding is just a torture, I feel I'm wasting my time.