Phoenixz @ phoenixz @lemmy.ca

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Not really, this is more like an obvious statement like "certain activities like sports may cause you to burn twice the calories. Yeah, doh.

John Deere is another one of those companies that started out with high quality products and then got overrun by managers who care about money and nothing else and will lie, steal, and cheat to get it

I get what you're saying but that definition of yours is lacking at best

dwarfs what happened in communist dictatorship

You're kidding, right?

Communist dictatorships aren't famous for being ecologically friendly, quite the opposite, really. One example that springs to mind is the idiot Chinese dictator that thought that birds ate too many seeds so he just decided that the entire country would dedicate itself to murdering all the birds. When all was said and done, millions of birds were dead, all the insects went nuts on the grain plants and China got itself into a famine that killed millions.

That is a SINGLE example

Capitalism can be really really shitty but it doesn't even come close to the horrors of communism

And yes, yes... Yes, I know, you will just either deny facts or just claim that millions of dead people is a good thing because of some mental gymnastics, but communism suuuucks. Wanna try https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes?

How about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism?

Yeah, I know, it's all whataboutism if you point out that for the hundreds of thousands of deaths that capitalism has caused, communism has caused tens, if not hundreds of millions of deaths

But down to the core,you seem to hate capitalism because of the abusers. I fully agree that these abusers are assholes that should be locked up. But guess what, though? These abusers exist in any and every system out there, including in communism! At least capitalism gives the freedom for us to call these assholes out, a luxury you won't have under communism as by design it has to curtail freedoms.

So how about you look with an open mind at capitalism and communism (but not too open, don't let your brain fall out) and try to understand that "capitalism bad, communism good" is just horribly short sighted and naive

Edit: to add to your point of "my point is that under capitalism....", uneer communism they did the same. You had a richer class and the plebs. The fact that the current 1% is so much richer really shows the success and power of capitalism, people can abuse it harder and leech out more, so they do. How about instead of Communism, we do capitalism with taxes done right? Anyone with a net worth over 10 million has all the excess go to taxes, 100%. You'll end up with people who are slightly richer or poorer, but nothing excessive. The state receives a shit tonne of money which it can use for a socialist system that protects everyone, free healthcare, free education, free housing, we can even do universal income! Sounds a lot better to me.

The instability?

You're giving it too much credit, especially the altcoins that didn't look beyond "existing". I know, I made one like 7 years ago or so and I ain't proud of it.

The instability of the worth of these crypto coins is just inherent to the instability of it, and actually not that different from currency fluctuations. You don't think the entire world works with US dollars, no?

You're forgetting the crystals and small pyramids to place under her bed!

As powerful as it is, it's still bound by laws of physics and all. They need to go there, setup camp, plan, execute, etc.

The US Army is strong, sure, but it ain't a god

That's the sound of the joke going over your head

Search for Hawk Toah girl

Pussy! Teach your kids some basic ducking and covering!

Oh sure. Everyone deserves the trial that they didn't wanted to give to others because we are better than them, we WILL give them the rights they denied to others

They are inherently bad. By design.

At the very basic level, everybody needs to execute eachothers transactions. This means that if a billion wallets make a single transaction that you end up with 10^18 transactions being calculated. To call it inefficient is the understatement of the year.

This, incidentally, is also the reason why the wallet data file is just ridiculously stupidly enormously big. I've been out of it for years now (minus the bit that I'm using now as an investment) but a real Bitcoin wallet required terabytes of data

All this culminates in Bitcoin using more electricity than a modern country to support a tiny fraction of the world's financial transactions, something you might want to think about with climate change and all.

None of that is "by design" its just the result of an unstable system. Crypto sucks for a long list of different reasons.

Crypto is not a scam, it's just plain stupid.

The entire idea behind it is what a third grader might come up with and think it's a great idea. It's not.

It literally requires every connected wallet to process the same transactions as everyone else. Can you imagine doing billions of transactions per day this way? It is extremely inefficient and yes, this is one of the reasons why even the relatively low amount of transactions that Bitcoin processes costs more electricity than a small modern country.

It's in a way comparable to a cpu doing 6+7 in a single CPU cycle whilst AI needs to burn down a forest to answer the same question

Crypto is stupid.

I get what its trying to replace and i agree that the current system sucks as well for a long list of reasons, but crypto is NOT the solution. A fundamentally different system must be designed to be able to solve the issues that crypto is trying to solve

This

This is how you deal with companies lying and cheating. You jail the owners or C suite.

Monetary penalties won't change anything, won't stop anybody, jailing those involved will.

Any organization called "blah blah shield" is telling you that it's a piece of shit organization

I hate crypto and the entire technology behind it is embarrassingly stupid but ngl, I bought Bitcoin as an investment and it was not a bad idea so far. Even if it falls to 50% of its today value before I pull out I'll still have multiples of what I invested.

Not trying to goad anyone into doing the same, just saying that I'm trying to make something good out of a bad situation

The US armed forces might want to have a word about this tho

is an environmental all encompassing disaster for children pretty much everyone alive

FTFY

And that list isn't even complete

Wikipedia burn