PeriodicallyPedantic

Why does everyone hate snaps? I mainly just use Ubuntu for work, but snaps seemed to work well enough.

I think the concern being solved is: In capitalism AI makes owners lives better and workers lose jobs. In communism AI makes workers lives better because they're all the owners.

Certainly not all the issues. And in theory.

Ok, not all. The concerns OP was referencing were likely concerns related to mass job displacement and unemployment.

I better not play games else I won't get to bed until 4am. I'll watch YouTube/tiktok instead because it has lots of stopping points and I can pause it.

Not me watching YouTube/tiktok videos until 4am

Capitalism is about taking everything you can, to act as a balance against everyone else doing the same, because the fundamental assumption is that greed is the natural state for people and we shouldn't try to fight it. Under capitalism, competition doesn't just apply to businesses in markets, it extends to everything: people must compete with those around them for resources (be it jobs, or food, or retirement investments), making human connection a primarily adversarial relationship.

Now nothing says that you must apply capitalist principals to every aspect of your life if you live in a capitalist society, but it slowly becomes the norm. Eventually, the reason people take care of eachother because is indirectly benefits themselves, rather than because its a good thing to do... And when that's your justification, it's easy to stop doing it.

It's all about establishing norms about how people should treat eachother. Under capitalism the norm is adviseraial by design, but under communist it was supposed to be cooperative. It didn't even up working that way, but that is the ideal we should strive towards.

Edit: fix typos

It's an unfortunately nuanced subject, where people don't agree on the underlying definitions of words. For instance, I think you're confusing "capitalism" with "democracy". You can have authoritarian undemocratic capitalist countries, where you can't talk shit about your government.

For me personally, I think communism has too many issues to actually try, but I like some of its theoretical tennants when compared to that of capitalism. Those goals are something to strive for. The spirit of communism is helping eachother and rewarding work, and the spirit of capitalism is sacrificing others for personal gain

Don't get me wrong, capitalism is still evil. On the employment end they're still extorting people because below a certain level, in the current society, money becomes a basic human necessity.

But for the purposes of this discussion, from a consumer perspective, most businesses in the world don't trade in human necessities. Landlords, grocery stores, hospitals, energy companies, and a few more are the select few who do.

Yes really.

I absolutely agree with you about grocery, energy, and fuel companies being evil. But most companies aren't grocery, energy, or fuel companies.

That said, I still hate capitalism. But for the purposes of this discussion, landlords are listed among the worst because they're part of the select few who withhold basic human necessities over profit.

Typically most businesses aren't profiting from the threat of withholding basic human needs.

I'm still unfamiliar with Lemmy etiquette, wasn't sure if posting the same thing in multiple places is acceptable.

Thanks! I didn't know about that community.

Is there a good way to cross post in Lemmy? If I set the URL to this post, will it figure it out with a preview and everything?

For context (tried to add it to the post, but it didn't seem to like both an image and a link at once)