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@admitsWrongIfProven copy and paste, of course! we can’t get enough of you!
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@Wolven (sorry! will do!)
@dymaxion @Wolven @why0hy the financial system does finance real world production, and provide goods and services like payments, insurance, and retirement savings.
i think the melange of oligarchical interests, more broadly-based uses and constraints, and intentional or unconscious conflations of the latter with the former might not be so dissimilar.
@Jonathanglick hopefully the space is larger than what i can spitball, but i’d expect we’d do better with one that relies less on attaching tolls to artificially sustained scarcity and probably more on public coordination of how support and rewards get directed. state-funded audience-directed voucher and match systems might be a good place to start.
subscription streaming platforms are a bad way to organize the collaboration of artists with audiences. we should replace them with better models, public or private.
@dymaxion @Wolven @why0hy we saw the same dynamic in the financial crisis.
it was true that bankers had expertise into the systems and technologies they had built that outsiders could not replicate.
it was also true the solutions they would consider, what they would consider serious or even thinkable, were constrained to a space that privileged interests they instinctively saw as universal but in fact were disproportionately theirs.
it was a hard situation. it worked out poorly.
@admitsWrongIfProven i’m sure that’s right, but i suspect even by their own definitions, the proposition often holds.
much less good comes of organized murder than its perpetrators often imagine.
@solar_chase happy birthday!
you don’t have to go too far into the abrahamic texts to find the line, “am i my brothers’ keeper?”
@darwinwoodka “‘your’ music. bwahahahaha.”
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“A fine is a price.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/24/cursed-bigness/
@Transportist lots of Apple One inflation Two. Not quite as dramatic in percentage terms, but a big price increase there too.
"Apple TV+ will now cost $9.99, up from the prior $6.99. Apple TV+ originally cost $4.99 when it first launched in November 2019." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-raises-prices-on-some-subscription-services-including-apple-tv-155224791.html
// The Apple TV+ inflation rate is 19% compounded over four years.
// That's fair, right?
@SocialistStan@mymastadon.link @LeftistLawyer the people (plural, not "a people") face a challenge, but so does the state.
states are in my view the most important and consequential of all human inventions, but like fire, they can and often do burn us into pain and ash. the most important human project is improving states, so they simultaneously act well on behalf of the publics they serve, and retain the approval of those publics (which, surprisingly often, may prove to be conflicting imperatives).
@SocialistStan@mymastadon.link @LeftistLawyer if you say so. i think some formal states are authoritarian, other are not, and i support the "not" kind.