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False dichotomy. Centraur is when the neck of an quadruped animal gets its neck replaced by an human upper body... So the giraffe centaur would have neither a long human stomach, nor a long human neck. It is reductionism to say that something isn't a giraffe, if it doesn't have a long neck part. Shame on you! 😉

On the other hand, Stewarts is also right. An Instagram feed is not free speech, it’s brain rot and propaganda and ruins society and lives. It needs to be regulated. Just letting then go on as they are while promoting alternatives misses the mark as to the threat posed by these platforms. Cohn seems to have a blind spot here. I don’t think so. She said she wants to make them unable to continue with their business like they did before, with regulations. Just not outright censorship, but instead go fight their data harvesting, decapitating their business strategy.

You do know that this is a slippery slope argument, right? You would have to demonstrate that there is an intention there to require third party services to validate the age of users using Linux… Or that there is an intention to do so by systemd and the broader open source developers. I don’t think it will be easily possible to lock out every Linux system from the internet that doesn’t implement some kind of hardware DRM mechanism to make sure that the user cannot just change the date of birth with root permissions.

What? You played hanging from the ceiling or doing a headstand?

No, but it can crush it.

Basically, I couldn’t claim capitalism is perfect, but whether replacing the system or not, you need to address the greedy human culture beneath it. Chicken, egg.

No. There are no perfect systems. Every system will require constant vigilance and adaption to work. The point is that the goal of disincentivizing greedy behavior is actually clearly stated and done.

I really don’t think it’s just “economic culture” as you’ve described. I didn’t say it is just economic culture that is the issue here… I really don’t think people are accurate about the feeling that “Obtaining and hoarding valuable things” is an act borne out of the laws of our current society. Also true, but what is? Is your point that it is human nature? I would disagree there, humans have the capacity of acting against greed and selfishness. Question is why they are so often acting greedy and selfish then? My answer would be two options with both apply to some degree, and there might be more: Resources are scarce and distributed non equally. So hoarding gives power over others The system incentivizes greedy behavior, by it’s structure and rules. Either by actively, by giving greedy people direct rewards, or passively by not punishing greedy behavior. Other ideas?

Destinction without difference. Government and economic culture is part of the economic system.