There is a theorem that relates wealth distribution and individual risk, so this is a great analogy.
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Good analogy, as long as that candy jar is the only food available.
No one has tried pure capitalism before so this argument isn’t in good faith.
I really think sarcasm needs to be properly marked in text formats.
Reverse italics would work so well.
However I feel like to be truly good sarcasm, it needs to fly over someone's head.
underrated comment; got a good chuckle
Sarcasm doesn't need to decieve, it needs to make a point IMO.
Making it obvious with a /s or similar takes a away from that I feel
/s doesn't take away from the point, it's just an indicator. In this day and age, it's legitimately impossible to tell otherwise sometimes.
You don’t have faith in the audience’s intelligence?
Even though the view you expressed is a joke, there are people whose real life politics are a joke.
They have a point though.
There are some cogent points in there, but the author fails to realize that the problem with capitalism is the capitalists themselves. The issues they complain about are the inevitable consequence of allowing capitalists to own the means of production rather than the people. Capitalists care less about being patriotic and doing good deeds than they do about their capital holdings, and an investment in corruption and cronyism is one of the safest bets capitalists with sufficient power can make.
Poe's Law exists for a reason. One person's sarcasm could just as easily be another's genuine take.
Poe's Law isn't even codified in most countries.
Sure, but even the most backwards countries at least have some version of Cole's Law
The question you should be asking is does the audience have enough faith in some random commenter's intelligence.
I do, generally, but I also know that people may not get it not through lack of intelligence, but through neurodivergence. At the bare minimum, if someone asks for clarification it should be given.
At the bare minimum, if someone asks for clarification it should be given
How far are you supposed to take the clarification?
Enough that the other party can understand.
Does this apply to authors and artists too?
Should all metaphors have an explanation?
There's a pretty big difference between literature and art, and online comments.
Do neurodivergent people not get to enjoy literature and art?
They do, sure. They also are able to know that what they are consuming is literature and art, and not a random user being deliberately obtuse.
I disagree.
I feel like if you’re able to enjoy literature and art you’re able to read internet comments too.
Have you spoken to neurodivergent people about this? I won't pretend to speak for them, but the idea that tone should be clarified upon request is something I've seen in neurodivergent communities. It harms nobody, if clarifying ruins the joke then the joke wasn't actually funny to begin with.
But if that’s what you’re advocating for why is literature and art exempt?
It isn't exempt, and moreover some art is unfriendly to neurodivergent people. Certainly you can understand the difference between watching a movie and talking to someone, right?
There’s also the fact that my comments are art.
Maybe not at the level of Ernest Hemingway, Britney Spears or E. L. James but definitely on par with someone like Georg Lukács.
Whether or not someone considers what they do to be art doesn't excuse choosing not to clarify your tone when requested, just like you can't just go around using slurs and excuse it by saying your words are art.
Quentin Tarantino would disagree.
I bet he would.
I myself prefer unholy capitalism in lieu of pure capitalism
Is there any way to avoid capitalism though
Maybe not about your main employment, but I don't understand why some people feel forced to do some other things:
- They love web advertisements, get attached to specific products, prefer using company names instead of general words
- e.g. "I'm in Zoom call"; just say "a voice/video call" or whatever, why do you have to advertise the company and perpetuate the mentality that "voice calls" → "Zoom calls“ and that there's only one product people should use
- same with sodas, medicine, browsers, search engines, tissues, copy machines, cleaning products, etc
- Social media posts: they feel the need to advertise themselves (I'm not just talking about work-related stuff); some people can't just post a nice vacation photo, and need to use it as an opportunity to act as influencers etc
- I would say that some types of "I have to do a bad thing to someone else, otherwise they will do it to me" could be classified as capitalistic as well; no, Bob, no one is forcing you to undercut your coworker (except if you work in a company that uses KPIs etc maliciously)
- The mentality that your hobbies can/should be used for profit, and that profit is the main reason anyone would do something that requires some time to do
- I've written some open source stuff (code.gkak.la), and when I mention something I made to some people, their first reaction was "that's great; so how are you going to sell it?"; and when I try to explain about open source (especially for personal scripts etc), they just can't comprehend why would anyone do something like that, if not for profit
- I've seen the same mentality online, around people being makers (e.g. knitting, 3d printing)
- People adding advertisements to their super low-traffic personal blogs, and people arguing about the "lost income opportunity" or sth (??)
We can move beyond capitalism and into socialism, several countries already do that.
So voting? I think it wouldn't happen in my country where majority of people are stupid enough to keep supporting capitalism
No, revolution. Canadians don't support capitalism because they are stupid, but because Canada is an imperialist country and as such a large portion are bribed by the spoils of imperialism.
You can kindly ask the candy guy to remove the poisoned one (it makes him a lot of money though) or you can reach into the jar and take it out yourself
While living within it? No.
Your options are too go completely off grid, and homestead. Or to start a revolution and brutally enforce anti capitalist laws.
Even then, you're bound to some system of trade. But if you can cut yourself off from financial institutions you're doing pretty well.
Trade isn't the same thing as capitalism, to be fair. Socialist countries also exist.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but only in America do people view having a job and ONLY enough money to pay all your bills and keep you alive to be a fate equivalent to death.
Living paycheck to paycheck in the US often means working over full time hours across a few part time jobs and still not always being able to pay all the bills every month. No one should be ok being a wage slave no matter where they live in the world.
enough money to pay all your bills until you have to pay for a medical issue.