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The moment we stopped working at the fields was the moment we had to stop the profit business. We should instead put in efforts into projects like CERN or anything that actually helps us improve the lives for as many as possible.
Pure Nonsense. Fascism is simply extreme nationalism. It is believing that one's race is superior which makes you hate immigrants. Makes you build up walls to keep them out. This is born out of the constant exploitation of the capitalists.
When the people stop believing the Capitalist lies, you start getting demagogues like Trump.
This has nothing to do with Marx and Socialism.
Just to repeat, Soviet Union and Communist China Vangaurdism has nothing to do with Worker-owned-and-directed enterprises.
Soviet Union and Communist China is very different from Mondragon and John Lewis. Power is decentralized as much as possible. Managers and Executives (if needed) are only in power for a few months and is subject to call any time. Unlike today where C-level persons act like Feudal Lords.
Regular boom-and-bust that keep people poorer and lessen social spending. It's very good at allowing the 1% exploit us and feed you lies.
> There are very, very few counter-examples in narrow low-growth specialised markets, but the general rule has been shown to occur countless times across economies as small as communes to as big as a superpower.
Yet we have Mondragon Cooperatives in Spain.
> but far less than in planned economies (at least all of them so far)
What I am specifically talking about is Worker-owned-and-directed-enterprises [1]. Planned economies is just state capitalism (but even that, you see China? the fastest growth in the history of mankind?).
> and capitalism tends to be very efficient at recycling that wasted capital back into productive enterprises.
Are you serious? Very efficient?
> If I held assets on either, it'd be on the chain that didn't hard-fork to reverse a single user's transaction.
Enjoy using Ethereum Classic then.
Bitcoin is an entirely different project. Although it is also a blockchain, it's like a calculator while the former is a fully programmable computer. These two projects are very different, two different groups of developers. I encourage you read into them more to educate yourself.
You have the luxury to decide what you wanna do. Not so many can do that. If I wanna stop working on this shitty profit squeezing airline software, the police will force me out of my roof and I will have to forage leftover food.
Ofc, I'm not telling you not to enjoy living. Everyone has the right to do so. But you can do that without stepping over other people.
Take your time reading Confucius or Epicurus. Good luck!
btw, adding oil over lava produces a very cool smoke effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Java_Game_Library
Whereas pyglet, seems to me like a high-level regular game engine that includes a widget library.
pretty nefarious if you ask me. we gotta own the means of production! take-over these oligopolies and turn them into worker-owned-and-directed cooperatives!
And that is on top of "The Responsibility of Intellectuals"
We've gone a long way from being serfs who have almost no rights, even the right to read and write.. to citizens who can communicate via the internet.
Advancement in technology will/have make current powers obsolete. Robots and algorithms have been taking more work since the stone age.
Better tools, means more surplus, means more time to think critically, more time to comment over the internet, or read books.
The only problem is that we probably won't see any observable improvement in one lifetime. It is however, also very possible that the incumbent powers put an end to our civilization. Hopefully enough people like these Google employees, Snowden, Assange will be there to stop fascism.
If we're talking about Ghandi, the man that fought for Indian rights (but not for Africans and in fact was a racist against them). And that is probably for the best:
I wonder if it's simply the balls to tell top management that we need to invest in training, refactoring etc. And selling it that it will payoff.
The usual answer I get when I propose this, is that "we're too busy with projects".
I think the idea is, to distribute power to the people. These cooperatives would generally make decisions that benefit the majority. Unlike what we have today where mega corporations (dictated by a handful few) keep doing whatever they can for 'growth' even if that means destroying people's lives and our planet.
> It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures, and the system boundaries are inevitably out of date by the time the next person looks at it.
Personally, I think documentation should be stored into source control like git. Any changes needs to go thru this document first. Specification by Example is one I think would be beneficial. However, all of these takes human willpower and disciple and business buy-in... and is probably why I'm stuck reading an ultra-slow confluence that is not updated.
Personally, I think the employees have the right to get ownership. Nothing gets produced without human labour. They may have ownership of the factory (by some divine reason), but nothing gets produced without labour (including management labour).