oh wow that’s nice. i’ll see if i can remember it.

… for the first 20 years

it’s weird to comment “weird” on everything

it’s always seemed weird to me that aging takes 20 years in dogs but 80 years in humans. i mean, if it’s a physical hardware failure, then you would expect it to be independent of age and only dependent on past physical load.

in fact, we’re in the early days of human gene technology, hormone therapy, biochemistry tempering etc.

“but does it cause cancer” is the new “but so does a handgun” comic.

thank you for your commentary :)

admittedly i’ve never really looked into eastern contemporary economic models, largely because of how inaccessible they are to me as somebody who does not speak the native language; an important contentious point to me are the following two: what is the role of workers in cosmology, and how to deal with non-workers?

• the first important question to ask is “what is the role of workers in cosmology”? in other words, what is the reason that humans are regarded special; why do we grant special rights and protection to humans, but not to other animals and plants. Where does this special role come from, and what conditions must be fulfilled to upkeep this role?

the way i see it, humans are a kind of driving force of history in an universal market that is tended towards growth. i’m a huge fan of outer-space human settlements (such as mars settlement), and realistically, only humans can do it. other species cannot; so we have to do it and obviously get a reward for it, since we’re doing it for all of nature, not just ourselves. plants profit from larger access to land as well. this justifies putting humans on a pedestal.

• however, what happens to the humans that stay behind? i.e. those not willing to endure hardships to go on a space trip? as i see it, maintaining an equilibrium does not require humans; nature has existed billions of years just fine without us. then, what justifies that we continue to put ourselves on a pedestal? what is the deeper philosophical reason for this?

https://awebsitethatpushesmyviewpoint.org/on-orwell/

i’ll make my own opinion, thanks, based on what he said himself, not what others say about him

I mean if a company isn’t making profit then it doesn’t have a viable business model to begin with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall

a lot of economists (and me) agree that all companies should eventually become unprofitable. then what?

tbf i’ve read the book 10 years ago and don’t remember stuff so well but i liked reading it.

have you actually read it? it says the exact opposite. he warns of how dangerous hitler is because of his personal apeal, while explaining in full detail why hitler is a devastating addition to the world. did you actually read it?

uhm i can recommend “animal farm”. it has a few very iconic quotes. spoilers:

yeah i agree

pls keep it to the political_memes community

thanks. i asked you to comment because i wanted to hear your opinion.

now, i don’t fully understand your response.

about the worker cooperatives: the thing that keeps bothering me is: what if the company makes no profit? i.e. it is a common and very wrong assumption that big companies are mostly profitable. many very big companies have huge fluctuations in their income, some never turn profitable at all. now, if worker’s pay is dependent on company profitability, i worry that they’re in for a rocky ride.

government serves the interest of the ruling class which is the capital owning class

and this is just plainly wrong. i guess you’re talking about the democrats from the USA. yeah those suck but to generalize it to “all government” seems just flatly off to me. i’ve seen many government institutions do great good around the world, such as in europe.

and?

yeah you’re right, wages would still exist, UBI is just extra, i just forgot to write it in the diagram

there i fixed it

otherwise wait for 20 years until cheap generics arrive

nah actually basically all food is fermentable. (whether the output tastes good, is another story)

all starch ferments into alcohol, basically. at least all sugars. that’s why you can make wine out of everything that contains sugar. which is basically all fruit. on top of that, it doesn’t even have to be sugar. it can also be starch, in which case we call it beer, i think.

can confirm that cherry wine was the best wine i’ve ever tasted.