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  • plyth@feddit.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldAddiction is a disease
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    2 days ago

    Especially because of the fact plenty of them are rigged.

    Arguably the safer bet if one wants to gamble is stock investing

    Haven’t you seen Wolf of Wallstreet? How do you avoid paying commissions and how do you get information before the big players have already cashed in?



  • I think it could help to approach the game differently.

    There is the anecdote about chess in which two kings are about to lead their armies into battle, but they play a game of chess first and start to appreciate their opponent and end up not fighting the battle.

    There is the entire history of colonialism that suggests otherwise, but I think that capitalism is more than a means to oppress the masses. The masses are oppressed to achieve cultural progress. There is no need for our current form of capitalism if we find a way to create progress in another way.

    State capitalism was not bad, but I think it is a dead end. We should try to come up with, and try other ways.






  • Without the expectation of being taken serious I want to double down.

    In feudal times, peasants were controlled by the sword. They didn’t have access to swords and couldn’t change their situation.

    Capitalism has the militarized police, but the main weapon is the control of the markets. Profits are made with the prices that the peasants are willing to pay.

    At least in theory, it’s within reach of the peasants to influence those prices because those prices are living in their heads.



  • Those who through systemic and continuous effort shield themselves from capitalist influence. It discredits them, brands them as enemies,

    I am curious how NEET will handle this. They tick all the boxes.

    We’re living under the totalitarian rule of capital.

    What I meant to say is that the totalitarian part comes from our brain doing value judgements. If it wouldn’t, Capitalism wouldn’t work. Capitalism is a reflection of our mind.

    If that makes Capitalism inevitable, could it be that we need more instead of less Capitalism for a better society?




  • not the strongest individuum has prevailed but the most kooperative group

    yes

    people have zero real influence on their lives.

    Which means that they haven’t become the most kooperative group.

    Many places are building horizontal, base democratic communities. Some ideas of people are either solely worker owned companies, full blown democratic socialism or base democracy with federation.

    Are those going to be the most kooperative groups?

    If we assume that it is possible for society itself to become the most kooperative group then something seems to be missing to make that possible.

    My personal hunch is that there must be a more efficient way to resolve in-group conflicts that stand in the way of cooperation. So maybe we should look very closely at what is wrong with the current NEET situation.


  • How to change human nature? People could stop being pawns and redefine the game but they don’t do it. Here, NEETS stop playing the game and they are immediately shunned by society. People can’t stand to see in others what they have to suppress in themselves.

    The end of capitalism would require some benevolent people to be in control or a majority of society that doesn’t fall for manipulations.

    The best that I can imagine is that those who don’t like capitalism create their own island, kind of like the situation in brave new world. Fortunately I am not that clever so I hope that others find a better solution.


  • :) But don’t hold that in my favor.

    Burning the board reverses development. Which decision in the past was wrong that could have led to a better society?

    We would make the same mistakes again.

    We could create a white pill. When groups of humans become enemies and it’s ok to hate them, then somebody is playing a fascist playbook and it becomes time to offer an alternative to all participants. (Which is just other words for ‘pawns of capitalists’.)