Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.
Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.
Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.
It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.
Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.
That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.
Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.
The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.
@RtrnSanity I like Spencer’s style. He just says “hey, that’s not good. let’s fix that”—instead of “MSM is lying to you! Where is Hunter’s Laptop? It’s all rigged.”
I really don’t care about the Political Crusades.
I just want the homeless people off the sidewalk.
I’m a lifelong Democrat
I don’t care if an idea comes from the left, the right, or anywhere in between. I care if it works
Vote for ideas first
People second
Parties third
LA is collapsing under ideology and incompetence
This man actually wants to solve the problem
People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers
SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY
NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world
Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA
"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein
Walking it back while claiming people are wrong for calling her out is crazy. Like she can just say we should stop companies from taking advantage of the system and no one would have a problem but she chose to villainize everyone and ruin her credibility instead
The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.
If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.
The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.
We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.
Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.
Computers -> Internet -> AI -> BioTech -> NanoTech
The current advancements in AI are going to fuel much bigger revolutions in the next phases
You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me.
Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious?
You are the fraud.
SpaceX going public in June would be the single largest venture outcome in startup history.
It may create 10k+ liquid millionaires.
These people are scientists, engineers and motivated by big ideas.
This is an incredible outcome for society that will have positive ripple effects into the future.
About once a week a waymo gets stuck in this alley for no reason. Sometimes just sits there for half an hour, sometimes backs all the way back down the alley. Been happening for over a year
About once a week a waymo gets stuck in this alley for no reason. Sometimes just sits there for half an hour, sometimes backs all the way back down the alley. Been happening for over a year
Worries that software developer jobs are going away are backwards. There is SO MUCH software to build right now, that previously wasn't possible (uses AI directly) or wasn't cost-effective (too niche). We're going to have more developers, and orders of magnitude more software.