I think these laws are not for we’ll just get around it or not use services that require it, for now at least.

slice it like a salami

What if it was a proponent of elected democracy?

Why cull the population? Not to offend you but this is such a flat-earth level of a conspiracy that doesn’t even make sense if you spend more than 5 minutes on it.

Divide and conquer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood etc. etc.

Our society is degerating towards america republican view of “means to an end” in sense that there are no bad actions just good or bad people and since trump is bad everything that is against him is good. This is so tiring and we should not accept this.

This seems like an organized propaganda campaign to simply disrupt and people are falling for it.

It’s likely not fake but Russia and China have official policies for spreading firehose of falsehoods whenever anything happens. They don’t even have to invent anything just amplify enough for grifters and memers to take off from there.

We are so fucked and people have just given up on finding reality sadly.

Even journalists are losing it. 60 minutes doing interview immediately without any research or preparation or time for story to develop is peak nail in the coffin for our information landscape. It’s literally the slow journalist group and they couldn’t slow down. We didn’t even need AI.

But low approval rate would also increase like hood of an assassination attempt right?

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Cheers! I’m a fan of anarchy as well :)

Market capture is one of the major goals of capitalism because it allows for continuing, unconstrained profits.

I feel like you’re going a bit into the weeds here. That’s goal of any participant in game theory - capture and win as much as possible. So it doesn’t matter what economic framework you’re using every participant will try to claim the biggest piece of the pie. At least capitalism tries to address this with “checks and balances” of competition while other systems just blindly work on faith that human virtue will be stronger than game-theory which it absolutely might be, at some point?

To be fair, the kind of capitalism you’re talking about is/would be heavily regulated

Any system ought to be. There’s no system that you can just let loose and have it self correct for itself, that’s a fairy-level of a delusion. People are very smart and will always figure out how to game a system.

In other words, a non-intelligent system will always be conquered by an intelligent participant, always.

Where capitalism extremists do delude themselves here is that “capitalism can be a sufficiently intelligent system” (the invisible hand) if it defers intelligence to game-theory level competition: because we all check ourselves we end up low-key giving intelligence to the system. Unfortunately this is just impossible to stabilize without unified borg-like society where everyone plays under this unified system but it also doesn’t mean there isn’t value of introducing some intelligence to the markets under intelligent supervision.

nope, shitty people and authoritaniasm is destroying our planet. Often quite literally too.

Dumping is the natural end of overproduction or under consumption

This doesn’t make sense in this context of dumping. It’s intentional overproduction for market capture not some inbalance in the market.

It’s also a tool to secure new markets. Capitalists employ it to get new customers and minimize losses. That’s why Walmart exists in small towns and why previous season’s stock goes on sale.

This is fundamentally opposite of capitalism, in fact as I said in the original comment market capture is inheritly anti-capitalist. Walmart, China etc. use abuse of power for an unnatural capture of markets. This is closer to authoritaniasm than capitalism.

Most capitalism haters fundamentally misunderstand what they’re hating it for. It’s valid to hate capitalism for it’s insufficiencies (it can be gamed and needs intervention) but it’s silly to attribute everything to some magical all powerful capitalism in the sky - this just reeks of low brow scare tactics like the red-scare.

We are not in “capitalist society” that’s a bit of an immature take as we have many ideologies and systems at play. We should identify weaknesses of all systems and use a buffet style policy making not subscribe to religion of specific rule. There are many great things in capitalism, there are many great things in controlled markets, there are even some great things in authoritarianism (i.e. wartime readiness).

Personally I don’t believe system design is all that important — it’s human virtue that drives all of this. A sufficently virtuous society would thrive under any policy framework as it would be capable of identifying faults and self correcting towards a more balanced interpretation and enforcement of any rule.

sadly not available in my region

I’ve been in the market for a decent Japanese EV for like 10 years now and still drive my 2004 toyota around. Sure China is dumping but Japan has been sleeping so hard it’s hard to have any sympathy here.

This is not capitalism as China is net-lossing market acquisition.

This is called “dumping” and is not a feature of capitalism in any way. In fact, every single economic school that likes capitalism is against it. Generally net-loss market acquisition is very bad thing for our society as it privatizes gains and socializes losses. i.e. if EV market suddenly implodes many people would be holding the bag and if EV market succeeds then only a few people profit.

Marxists themselves classify net-loss acquisition as a failure of late-stage capitalism (which is fair) but when .ml’s favorite flavor of authoritarians do it then it’s ok lmao

The whole point of EU that it’s a single economic zone

Why would economy crash for the rest of us if it’s all mostly vc funding and funny money?