Sauerkraut
@Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 1 week ago:
Capitalism is bad at pricing in externalities. It’s pretty good at using price signals to allocate finite resources to more productive uses.
Markets == capitalism. You can have the efficiencies of free markets (worker owned co-ops which are market socialist) without the all consuming greed of capitalism.
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 1 week ago:
If so, then oaths clearly aren’t enough. We need to empower doctors to have more ownership over medical decisions.
This goes back to the heart of the issue of capitalism vs socialism: the people who have the actual expertise to do the actual work need to share in ownership over their work so that the work gets done properly. Doctors should be at the helm of the healthcare industry just like engineers should be at the helm of Boeing.
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 1 week ago:
We have capitalism and public health care im the EU.
The EU has socialist / non-capitalist parties that have fought tooth and nail for socialized medicine and labor protections. The US doesn’t have non-capitalist parties to fight for the working class.
So in other words, the US only has capitalism and our government only represents the interests of capital (our government doesn’t do anything unless capitalists are allowed to get their hands in it to funnel public funds into private pockets)
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 1 week ago:
Agreed. The US’s entire political system is broken beyond repair (money directly buying political representation, hyper polarization from our two party system) and evil beyond redemption (funding genocide, bombing other countries, and allowing corpos to kill Americans for profit)
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 weeks ago:
It is unusual and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it is bad. If I liked the person I would probably come to like the name.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
Like farmers who refuse to let the government plant shelter belts to preserve our top soil all because they don’t want to take a 5% hit on their yields… So instead we’re going to deplete our top soil in 50 years and future generations will be completely fucked because creating 1 inch of top soil takes 500 years.
- Comment on Generational differences 4 weeks ago:
I never tried that, but if you fill a bottle with water and submerge it in water then you can drill holes in the glass without it shattering
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 month ago:
Sure, but in that case they need to make the server code open source so game owners can run their own servers.
Or they need to include a lan / offline mode
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 2 months ago:
The Christian one should be a missionary actually helping people. Christian faith that only exists in church is a false faith
- Comment on Horror 2 months ago:
The rich do have flying cars. They just call them private jets. The rich own mansions (huge houses) all over the world, private islands, mega yachts that contain smaller yachts, their own submarines, and now they even have their own rocket ships
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 2 months ago:
Unfathomably based
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Lead poisoning. Leaded gasoline started in the 1930s, but in the 50s and 60s we destroyed our public transportation and then destroyed millions of black homes to build highways through our cities. So leaded gasoline peaked in the 70s.
Oh, and boomers, who have the most lead brain damage, hold all the political power because they hold all the wealth.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 3 months ago:
Like Peasant-brains defending oligarch billionaires or attacking socialists who try to help them
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 3 months ago:
Iterate. After some operations, you have five chimps who are ready to punch any chimp who would dare touch the stepladder (or curse Henry Symeonis) – and none of them knows why.
Super interesting. Is this why peasant-brains defend capitalism, our undemocratic two party system, and the oligarchy so intensely?
- Comment on no words, much feelings 3 months ago:
Americans when their taxes are given to billionaires through kepto defense contracts or when billions are given to Israel’s genocide: …😴…zzzzzzzzzz…😴…zzzzzz…😴
Americans when taxes are used to help people: 😡😡😡😡😡
- Comment on no words, much feelings 3 months ago:
I am afraid to ask, but why do you hate society and your fellow countrymen so much? If the idea of taxes being used to help people fills you with so much rage, then I hope you have access to free mental health so you can figure out why you hate people so much
- Comment on Clever, clever 7 months ago:
Disability accomodation requests are sent to the professor at the beginning of each semester so he would know which students use accessibility tools
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 7 months ago:
The US only have right wing parties. Neolib dems and fascist Repubs are both right wing parties.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 8 months ago:
I am pretty sure working from home has proven to be more productive, so I think other factors are at play here. I worry that returning to the office might be the only way to keep the capitalists from trying to send our jobs over to poorer nations. If the tapeworms think the job needs to be done face to face then it is much hardet to send those jobs to India or S. America.