Risk

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Good analogy, as long as that candy jar is the only food available.
- Is it though?
  The 70% roll is a one time at birth and you still live.
  The average piece of candy is ~60 calories. But let's call it a 100 and since the average adult needs 1600 kcal on average - you've got a ~16% chance of just dropping dead everyday.
  After 7 Days, the chance of you still being alive is 29.5%. 30 Days is 0.54%
  
  The theme being you have 1 option and it’s a bad one.
- And the previous candy jar that this replaced had even more death in it.
  
  False, the gap between rich and poor has never been bigger in all of human history.

Left fella has played XCOM
- 93% success chance has never given me so much anxiety lol

There is a theorem that relates wealth distribution and individual risk, so this is a great analogy.

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.
  
  You don’t have faith in the audience’s intelligence?
- I myself prefer unholy capitalism in lieu of pure capitalism

Who in the 30% gang here woop woop
- I am! I love getting a bigger crumb!
  
  Beats getting the smaller one for sure
- /s imagine being poor am I right?
  
  It's pretty awful, that's why it feels good to be in the 30%

Is there any way to avoid capitalism though
- We can move beyond capitalism and into socialism, several countries already do that.
  
  Are there countries where there aren't people living paycheck to paycheck? I really can't think of any, unless we count some social safety net things but some capitalist countries have that
  
  So voting? I think it wouldn't happen in my country where majority of people are stupid enough to keep supporting capitalism
- 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.
- 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 (??)

And what other choice do you have?
- To eat an entire jar of poisoned candy

People dont realise there are other ways of doing things and think the alternative is just soviet communism.
Liberal capitalism has only been defacto since the 80s/90s and it only benefits the 1%. They dont want the gravy train to stop so are working very hard to keep the masses stupid and compliant.
- Sure, I've explored a bunch of other ways. I wound up agreeing that communism is the correct path, guided by Marxism-Leninism, which has various forms in real life such as the former USSR, Cuba, PRC, DPRK, Vietnam, and Laos.
  Capitalism has been in power a lot linger than 30-40 years.
  
  USSR, Cuba, PRC, DPRK, Vietnam, and Laos
  Its interesting you've picked those as examples when most of them have failed. PRC/Vietnam aren't exactly Marxist-leninist these days.
  Capitalism has been in power a lot linger than 30-40 years
  Well an ideology can't really hold 'power' but you're sort of correct. The reagan-thatcher flavour of capitalism gained popularity in the 80s.
- Liberal capitalism has only been defacto since the 80s/90s
  ????
  I do not understand where you people get these insane ideas
  
  I do not understand where you people get these insane ideas
  Not sure what you're on about mate?

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.
- Not sure what you mean to be honest. People don't like being poor where I live either
  
  Having a job that pays your bills isn't "poor" by global standards.
- enough money to pay all your bills until you have to pay for a medical issue.
- 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.

Like we have a choice with society. I love calling peers bootlickers because they are trying to survive and possibly having more success than you.
Hate the game not the player. What's the economic equivalent of an incel?
- You can accept the material conditions of your life without simping for the people who are actively making it worse you know
  
  Where do we live if we accept the material conditions of our life? Like I work for a very small company that treats us great but that’s still capitalism. So if I reject that do I just move out to the local bus stop?
- We do have a choice as long as enough people stand against it, but people keep acting like this is the only way, your comment included.
- Chud
  
  Don't hate the player hate the game
- I prefer complaining and screaming loudly while 'barely surviving'.
  
  To be young again 🤣
- Not sure why the downvotes and comments.
  Like if we don’t participate in the capitalist system what should we do?
  Every motherfucker on here is part of that system unless they build their own phones or PC. Where is Lemmy hosted? More likely on AWS or some other cloud provider.
  Where do you buy things from if not capitalist businesses.
  
  The downvotes are from a misunderstanding. I didn't say to reject capitalism or go live in the woods to escape it or anything like that.
  I'm saying you can accept that you are nothing but a cog in the capitalist machine without simping for the very machine that's crushing you.
  People seem to be reading what they want to read in these comments.

Life is good. Life isn't about getting more of what you want. Its about wanting more of what you have.
Start a gratitude journal and rework your brain.

... 4 Chan leaking again I see.
Yall really couldn't come up with a better idea than the ones from 10 years ago? Your dog whistles like fucking fog horn
- Since when was 4chan anti-capitalist? What dogwhistles are you talking about here?
  
  https://www.npr.org/2016/09/20/494700850/taste-the-outrage-donald-trump-jr-s-tweet-compares-refugees-to-skittles
  More smooth sailor q anon bullshit.
- completely normal socially progressive post*
  the worst liberal you've ever met: "errrm this seems a little sus 👀🤓"
  
  Yea I have no idea what Tavi is talking about here, lol.
- Thanks for letting me know you're a worthless account that I should block

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