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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • From one socialist (me) to another (you, presumably), the lemmy.ml hate comes from:

    • Conservatives who dislike socialism
    • Liberals who dislike socialism
    • Socialists who think Stalin and Mao were anti-democratic fuckheads, and don’t enjoy being around “socialists” who like them.

    I like Lemmy, but can at the same time dislike people who like things I consider to be authoritarian, even if those people created the platform in the first place.

    Viewing lemmy.ml content on ‘All-Top’ is a rather happy medium for me, still get to see some of the best memes





  • I’m with you on being against capitalism, but UBI isn’t convincing as a solution to me.

    UBI pre-supposes that the rich and their corporations should have a monopoly on the means of production, and you still have capitalism, just that the population are guaranteed an income via high taxes. But the power structure, and undemocratic nature of capitalist controlling everything still exists.

    UBI is some dystopian stuff if you don’t combine it with getting rid of the ruling class and the other tools of capitalist oppression.

    But yeah, I agree with you that we certainly ought to be working less than we are (yes, even if standards of living were more fairly distributed to poor countries), and in the future I also agree with you that we ought to be working way, way less of technology allows for it.