GhostOnTheHalfShell @masto.ai opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.
Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.
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I drink Philz.
I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.
Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.
It’s a matter of time before some variant mutate and enable fall on human human transmission. When was the Spanish flu pandemic.. 1918
Yeah, I may need to stick my nose back in to that side of things because I view mastodon is sort of a stream of thought forum.
If you don’t mind my asking, how is Lenny doing these days? I sort of sampled I kbin, when Reddit was busy lady pissing off everybody under the sun, but if some sort of retreated back to mastodon here which is easy.
If you know the history of the game of Monopoly, it was designed to illustrate that point. It was created around the time of the great depression in the post stock market crash, maybe.
It would be a fabulous time right now in the midst of this insanity to start reviving then re-watching movies and new stories commentary from the 20s and the 30s.
History is rhyming up a storm
The competition itself is a factor in economic instability and crisis, and it is in crisis that the ultrarich and the larger companies gain the most advantage because often by no fault of their own, the smaller or the unlucky run into a Cash flow problem and must sell their business for pennies on the dollar.
Competition also means over capacity.
This is why the ultrarich just love, economic crisis; they will make a killing off of other people’s economic distress.
because they only become monopolies, because they’re “satisfying” the market best. If they start doing evil things, then magic market pixie dust will make a competitor.
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Seriously, Mr. Champion of capitalism argued that wasn’t necessary to actually have competitors competing in a marketplace. The man should’ve been removed slapped out of University as soon as he said bullshit like this.
At best you can say if you have a system of profits and markets that that system is exquisitely fragile and soon becomes something entirely different.
These simple observations are why I relentlessly mock mainstream economics, particularly neoliberal ideas.
Uncle Milty Mr. free market fundamentalist himself, was paid to say things that like monopoly are just fine,
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The funny part is the capitalist are just as fond of centralized command and control economies as they said they never were.
And the capitalist well they’re giving the whole system very bad name at the moment much more than say in the last 10 years.
I shouldn’t really express my extreme hatred of these two, but these are nation destroying assholes