Conservative makes no sense. It's not changing for the sake of lot changing. Liberalism is the same, it's change for changes sake. Both are bad, you change when a policy is a reasonable improvement regardless if its status cuo or not.

Now, I don't know if lemmy is more European or not than reddit, but the left/right leaningness of the gut feeling policies people have, will be very different than what you might expect.

I would however suggest not looking for "your team" groups as that becomes like your local football team, which never leads to good policies. It's just hive mind.

Discuss policies and perhaps join groups like that.

I do not have any direct good suggestions however.

Yes, betting a larger or smaller amount on something, and to what degree you are invested, both in terms of emotion and percentage of your wealth, does not change the fact that its still gambling.

But you now also have the additional disgusting allowed custom of that you can just buy up others work. You can be at a workplace, put all your energy into it, then a rich entity can come it and buy it all up and kick you out and/or burn it to the ground. What this entity is compromised of, a single person, many, or another corporation, is not necessarily smarter and just because it has a lot of wealth will not make better decisions.

I would say its the opposite. The larger an entity is, the more disjoint and the more dumb decisions are made. Working as a software consultant for both small and large corporations. The small dumb ones die out, the large dumb ones survive in spite of their choices, not because of it.

Authority bias is without awareness affecting any human. The more we recognize it, the more we can keep our ideas grounded.

Those banks are also gambling, but also with additional fraud.

None of this has any real value.

All good! 😊

It's not worded like that at least. It looks like he dares anyone that want to argue for that it is gambling to look at that link. But as you say, the link points to clear gambling practices. 🤷

Yes? What is your point? Does not change that the fact of the stock markets response is just a facet of gambling.

And this is not gambling still how?

Public stocks is just gambling. Some people gambling on a potential win is a given.

Imo the world will be a better place when stocks is looked at the same way as online poker. Because right now it has this high aura of validity around it which I think it really does not deserve.

What people think will result in this potential superconductor has no real effect or predictive value on reality.

You are two - CGP Grey us a good video about it.

It seems he has given up on it and was asked for his opinion.

Imo you don't need to fix the US entirely, should be doable to fix small areas you want to live in. It's nice if an entire city is well designed, but the greatest inpact is in the area you are 95% of your time in anyway, which is much smaller.

Super nitpick. Can we just use 1800 utc? Then everyone can convert to their zone directly. *signed me in a CEST zone.

So some big companies that deserve no pity will earn less. Will they be opposed to it, of course, but that does not change anything of what we should push for.

How hard it is to implement is an entirely different discussion though.

No. The more efficient the public transport is, the more money will circulate to firms. So not doing it costs more.

It's literally the reverse. You can avoid phones often to a larger degree than cars in parts of society. So, it is worse, period.

I wish they put up more requirements regarding train travel between densely populated areas.

I’m trying to use the specific questions as a rhetorical device, so that you can’t avoid defending your position with a vague out like this:

I can't avoid defending my position? I havent stated my position... How can you attack something I havent even stated. I just stated the only possible solutionspace which is valid regardless of position. Go watch Rules for Rulers by CGPgrey, it gives a better description than what I can.

This is basically the goal of the political philosophy of Marxism-leninism. Like, idk if we have much to argue about if that’s your goal.

What are you talking about? I have absolutly no idea what "Marxism-leninism" is, so this label means nothing to me. The possible combinations of political policies is WAY larger than the total combinations of a list of political philosophists.. So trying to collapse it any position into these few labels is just crude.

You state "but it’s very common for “anti-authoritarians” to support a wide range of things that are very authoritarian" and then point at my "The point is to try to find more and more democratic systems regardless of initial conditions". You are literally saying that trying to make society more democratic is authoritarian. There is absolutly no logic to this and you need to really clear up your ideas, cause and effect, because that does not compute in any universe.

So I agree, using a math metaphore, if we are discussion any solution, but you have made up your own axioms, then you can never get a good understanding, because your priors are incompatible with eachother.

You are trying to be way too specific in your counter questions for it to ever be meaningful. A better question would be, why isn't it possible to get a perfect democracy.

The answer is simple, if you have any influence over another person, it's already not perfect. As in a well spoken person at any workplace can voice their support for certain policies and create a higher influence for some stated ideas than a person being silent.

Your final question does not make sense. The point is to try to find more and more democratic systems regardless of initial conditions. Forced transparency for people in power for example increases democracy, nice, then we do it.

I have not stated any specifics on what constitutes what to what degree, I only defined the entire solution space. So it's no wonder it's not clear.

The opposite of democratic. It's a gradient. The people of a nation either has equal influence on how the nation is run, you have something in between or a very small minority has all the power.

The extreme where everyone have equal influence (impossible in reality) is perfect democracy. The extreme where a single person has all the influence, is an perfect authoritarian. Then you draw rough lines at points where the democracy is as good as you can possibly get, a flawed democracy, authoritarianism light, etc, depending on how unequal the influence is between people.

Also, I am not the one who you originally replied to.

If not, no. I really do not believe that is the case however. I personally think the ussr was as communistic as Democratic Republic of the Congo is democratic.

If you have some authoritarian group at the top going, one for us, one for the people, one for us, one for the people. It's not communism.

I personally think capitalism, socialism, communism, etc are just tools. And as all tools, you apply the right tool for the job.

The value gained from national resources for example is definitely something that should be shared equally between the people. What price you want to set for hobby wood working projects you do in your spare time should be purely up to you and a buyer.

It's the authoritarianism that makes these governments bad, not the type of economic system.

You need to ensure a good democracy, regardless of economic policy.