that’s liberals for ya

Not like minded… I’m not opposed to the principles you lay out in your abstract but the monarchy power structure isn’t what I’m interested in.

Socialism, communism, and ultimately anarchism are the way forward in my opinion.

I have such a hard time getting used to “positive anymore”

Imagine forcing this into conversation to cry about this so many years later.

Code is a language that can describe all sorts of systems, some of those systems have rigid hierarchies and some of those systems are distributed.

Software development teams also tend to work in collaborative ways, as much as Agile and Scrum development practices are bastardized in many large companies the core philosophies are very worker-empowering.

In the cases where companies use “waterfall” or misuse Agile the culprit seems to be managerial interference or very rigid and important requirements (e.g. a plane software system that must not fail)

I see your point, but per the above I would say it’s not universal and I would also counter that software architects have very open-ended solutions to choose from and are used to thinking about a system as a whole, which in my case at least leads me to questioning how our political and social systems can change for the better.

worth noting though that having more muscle mass does impact your daily energy expenditure

Fair take, and applies in every industry. Basically what I’m trying to say is it’s all about capitalism baby. The shit floats

I think you’re overlooking all of the free and open source software and people like me who work in the industry and are radical leftists.

The more likely connection here is that these are all rich CEOs…

I’m kinda far left myself, I think capitalism is a pretty cool guy

The politics community on world is even more rabid and unconstructive than the Reddit equivalent

yes a decentralized federated community is very aligned with tankies totally

You’re on lemmy.ml now, the worst part of it is the militant liberals from world coming here trying to feel smug. That’s about the worst I’ve seen at least.

you’re ruining the catchy slogan, it’s like you don’t even want this to be Reddit

thanks for participating <3

Humor is subjective of course, but I think “dog” replaced with “husband” would have worked better.

And no matter how many protectionist measures that the US implements we’re seeing that they’re losing the global competition. I guess protectionism and oligarchy aren’t the best ways to accomplish the stated goals of a capitalist economy. How soon before China is leading in every industry?

It’s not about the sweets and cigarettes it’s just about the wealth acquisition. Same then as it is now. Companies are still using slave and otherwise coerced labor to extract all kinds of wealth from foreign countries.

If any countries try to take control over their own economy by closing it to Western “investment” they get wrecked by the world bank and invaded or sanctioned by the US and/or its allies.

Global capitalism is neo-colonialism.

oh competely agreed, I’m just pointing out the dishonest framing by politicians and pundits

but how will we pay for <anything that’s not increased military spending>???

talk about social services and taxes are like a bake sale, talk about funding war and it’s what you describe

Government spending doesn’t work like your bank account. Instead of just letting banks invent money through fractional reserve banking the government can pay for these kinds of essential services with new money. Taxation isn’t like having a bake sale so you can afford to buy things, it’s one way for money to be drawn out of the economy so that inflation is controlled.

Yes some taxes raise money proportional to some other spending and are ear-marked for that, but notice how no new taxes had to be introduced to give tens of billions to Ukraine and Israel?

The government can pay for public services.