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Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 45
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LLM as in Large Lorem-ipsum Mangler?
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cuba doesn't stand a chance, it's been strangled for decades. makes one wonder what it is that the US fears so much to keep the stranglehold on. something to hide?
the problem with your theory of market regulation limited to taxation is, as I pointed out, it doesn't stand a chance against global corporations that can corrupt even the most powerful nations. that kind of corporate power, that is the obvious end goal of capitalism, is toxic and destructive.
now, let's take, for the sake of the argument, your claim that the socialist practices in nordic countries are better capitalism. why, then, do most capitalists reject proposals to adopt them in other capitalist countries by arguing that they would amount to socialism? (or, invisible hand forbid, communism!)
now, we seem to agree that mythic communism has never been tried, but can you give any examples of this mythic pure-breed regulated capitalism, that I've never seen tried anywhere either? I mean, the cases we know of capitalism are either poorly regulated, that sucks, or well-regulated towards socialist practices, that sucks a little less and not for very long, because the unregulated havens enable corporations to grow like cancers than proceed to destroy anything that stands in the way of their growth or that would threaten the ideology of deregulated capitalism. so they sabotage those who explicitly reject capitalism first, and twist the arms of those who attempt to regulate them. it can't end well
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well, yeah, it didn't have much of a chance. humanidade can translate to either humankind, humanity (as in being human), or humanity (as in being humane); but desumano is more strictly inhumane. desumanidade would normally translate as inhumanity, but I put it in a context that I hoped would suggest an inhumane humankind
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specifically, norway has strong government control over key (if legacy) industries such as oil (including facilities in Brazil, that used to be state-owned), and strong taxation directed towards public services (education, health, social security) in line with social(ist) democracy. it's these social(ist) democratic traits that improve quality of life there, while market regulation of multinational corporations remains a distant dream that risks bringing the whole thing down, not the least because the world's environment doesn't care much about borders
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I got quiet about norway as soon as I pointed out that capitalists deny the presence of competing systems whenever there are signs of success and you didn't respond to that. I figured you acknowledged it as true
now, you appear to conflate socialism, a transitional state, with communism, the conceptual model of a radical democracy that has never been tried before, despite plenty of propaganda from all sides labeling things as communist.
now, if you think norway is doing better than the us in terms of human rights and general well being because of market regulation, let me break some news for you. the "success story" of US's hoping to regulate Amazon does not speak much for capitalism, really. first of all, it's by no means certain that even the most powerful nation in the world will succeed at that, and, if it does, it will be within its own borders, where it has jurisdiction, and globalized capital won't have much trouble moving its HQ elsewhere to keep on exploiting the rest of the world while moderating slightly its exploitation within US borders. that's the best case scenario.
now, if the US, the most powerful nation, has failed to regulate Walmart, and is now struggling to regulate the more powerful Amazon, what are the odds that Norway's market regulators could get even close?
what makes Norway superior in well being and human rights are, well, elements of socialism, that capitalism pushers relabel as social democracy for propaganda purposes
(tbc)
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yuck. how did it mangle "desumanidade"? did it get even close to "inhumanekind"? :-)
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BTW, I wouldn't have guessed that you're not a native speaker of Portuguese
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what you describe as (theoretical) capitalism is even more unachievable than the radical democracy of a worker-controlled economy in (theoretical) communism.
in case you've been living under a rock, you may want to read about all the choice, leverage and advantages customers enjoy under capitalist Jeff's rule and inevitable enshittification. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/opinion/amazon-ftc-antitrust-monopoly.html
do you really have any illusions that capitalist states can contain multinational corporations while they buy legislators, judges and whatnot with pocket change? if you fear a command economy, you should really be worried about this, because the trend has long been for concentration rather than competition. though you may still get the illusion of competition, and of democracy, if you don't pay much attention.
in terms of human rights, people having to live in bondage one paycheck away from being kicked from their homes or from going bankrupt over a health crisis is not my notion of respect for human rights. that's not an exceptional situation under capitalism, it's the end goal.
capitalismo é o sistema mais cruel que a desumanidade já criou
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have to? no, absolutely
can reasonably choose to do for defensible reasons? sure!
eventual consistency is a lot more efficient than globally synchronous lockstep operation in distributed systems
there was a time when SMTP servers hadn't got so centralized, and policies and decisions may have been made at a time in which such delays were an inherent part of the system, and people cared and complained about such things
the fact that now people lacking (or forgetting) that context expect instant reactions doesn't justify rebuilding systems designed and implemented based on earlier assumptions that remain reasonable
and unless you're paying for their angry (former) subscriber support, maybe you could give them a little more credit for trying to set reasonable expectations, and not assign to malice what can be explained by (others') stupidity ;-)
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a estrutura de decisões que você descreve é a de companhias capitalistas e outras ditaduras autocráticas. achei que estivéssemos debatendo os méritos de estruturas de governança verdadeiramente democráticas, não as de mentirinha de um lado ou de outro.
é um barato que os defensores do capitalismo adoram projetar defeitos do próprio capitalismo nos sistemas que o desafiam, mas quando o sistema desafiador mostra que dá certo, negam até a morte que sejam outro sistema que não o capitalismo.
tudo bem, vamos comparar quantas crianças não têm casa pra morar em cuba e no país vizinho? quantas falências médicas em cuba e no país vizinho? quantos desempregados passando fome em cuba e no país vizinho? quantos jornalistas presos e sob tortura na europa, por pedidos encaminhados e sob acusação de publicar crimes cometidos pelos governos de cuba ou do país vizinho?
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isso, começa fazendo a economia funcionar como uma empresa capitalista, com planejamento centralizado. só que não, porque quem comanda as decisões é a população, numa democracia radical, não o CEO, e em benefício da própria população, não dos acionistas. isso comparando os modelos teóricos, já que nem a economia ultrademocrática do comunismo nem o livre mercado dos capitalistas foram jamais testados. mas o planejamento estruturado é a parte que o capitalismo adora criticar, mas adota.
já se você comparar alguns extremos reais nos dois sentidos, o que se vê são as coitadinhas das crianças sem educação e sem saúde nos países socialistas como a noruega, em contraste com os trabalhadores bem remunerados, bem educados e com excelente saúde como no país pináculo do capitalismo. né?
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no, they can't, that's the point I was trying to make. have you never got a complaint from someone who unsubscribed from a mailing list, then complained that they still got email from the list on the next day, when they brought their SMTP server back up?
you have to advise people to expect messages for the maximum time your outgoing mail pipes will keep on retrying, or people will think their request wasn't honored.
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this bank has proprietary apps for GNU/Linux/x86_64
but I don't wish to be stuck to an increasingly hostile and (for me) dying hardware platform
and they have no business dictating what hardware or software platforms I'm required to use. I hired an interoperable service for good reason.
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thanks for filing those reports. the issues seem important to you. have you considered contributing fixes for them, whether by implementing them yourself or hiring someone else to fix them for you?
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*nod*, the bank is also trying to require me to be tracked by a mobile telescreen, and that's part of the problem, but so far they've allowed me to use a hardware OTP device as part of authentication. the main problem for me is that they've been removing features from the web site to force users to install apps that purport to provide equivalent features, and that must run as privileged users on desktop computers. of course I won't let them break into my computers, and I won't install any nonfree programs on any computers under my control. the problem for them is that the banking services I hired served me well until they bought that bank along with the obligation to offer the service I'd selected and hired.
good luck in your struggle! I hope more people join us in rising against this sort of abuse
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.oO the bank I sued for demanding me to install malware lost
https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota.en.html
they told the judge they were in compliance with the court order to stop requiring malware, while admitting to still requiring it
today, in celebration of GNU 40th, my lawyer is initiating the procedures for the bank to pay the fines imposed by the judge so far, denouncing the bank’s contradiction. I hope it doesn’t take another 40y for me to get internet banking in freedom
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why would you mislabel a longtime feminist as sexist? because some corporate shill said so? because a bunch of gullible people believed it and spread false accusations without checking?
because people like you are well meaning and care deeply about injustice, but fail to check facts, to the point of becoming exploited vectors of the very injustice you hope to oppose?
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interesting that you prefer to believe a hate-fueling campaign promoted by companies that have long sabotaged the movement and attacked its leader, than someone who set out to defend your freedom from their attempts to undermine it. why would you engage in such self-defeating behavior?
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you seem to be asking the question under some misconception. there is no incompatibility between "free software" and "devs' eating". most software developers and businesses make money by selling services, and respecting users' freedom is entirely compatible with that. why would you imagine that it isn't?
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TBH, I don't like much the notion of "giving freedom" present in so many other articles. freedom is hardly ever given, it is earned, conquered even.
but we do share presents at celebrations, which is what this post was about.
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
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