Thats the system. Its designed like that. There are books depicting this stuff from 100 years ago.

We’re arguing on the assumption that living in western europe isnt “rich”. Even the people living from state welfare with running water are better off then 50% of the planet because they even have clean water.

Notch btw started as a programmer at the age of 18 (wikipedia) and lived in sweden, one of the richest countries in the world. Having the time to learn programming at that age is already a sign of (white) privilege.

There. Is. No. Self. Made. Wealth. Period.

That on the other hand is not saying that notch wasnt successful, he undeniably was. But he is an unethical prick for keeping the money and engaging in debauchery. He does not deserve praise, neither does any rich person. You know who deserves praise? Dr. Ernesto “che” guevara does.

Not inherited is also wrong. Because more than 50% of americans live paycheck to paycheck, one can assume that private schools, elite universities, etc are also inherited wealth.

They dont spawn with billions but they started at the top and just built exploitation empires.

The is no such thing as self made wealth and an insane majprity of it is already being very comfortable and just going full bore.

I’m not saying financial success has nothing to do with capabilities and discipline but surprisingly little.

Or to quote jay gould, who said it before:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Exactly. On top, we have this everywhere not only in media. Cost of living is insane and we are used to barely existing service for all the money we pay.

But dont dare to make an app that doesnt do the “swoosh”, “shaky screen” or otherwise isnt “polished” enough. Its “Go corpo or go home.”

I wonder if there is any solution? When will we have extracted enough profit? Should we do 16 hr work days? Maybe then corporate overlords will be happy?

No need. We have corporate mind control which tricks people into thinking only brown people are terrorists, non nato states are barbarians and socialism doesnt work, etc.

We even have accounts on lemmy who exclusively post nato propaganda and use multiple accounts to cancel dissent.

That is correct but also only half of the story.

Reddit shut down dissenting voices which is huge in thought control. They shut down alternate apps, making poor people gobble up propaganda. The awards system, popularity contests, etc

Thats not all of it but definitely enough to not touch it with a ten foot pole.

Cool username

Great thinking. It wont ever happen though because that would be sOcIaLiSm.

Yes, hi. I have fully abandoned antisocial media.

Stuff is not important anyway, no matter where it is posted. I get input here, which is okay. But the most important part is: I dont get centrally controlled propaganda and am able to form my own input as I can handle it.

You might wanna watch dont look up. Its pretty spot on in that department.

And I dont think anything will come through people’s apathy - besides a world ending comet maybe.

I think people will get upset enough to get off their butts and do things. The issue I see currently is that demonstrating likely wont bring change but if people start disrupting harder (not more violent, although I’m not a pacifist at all) it will definitely bring change.

Yeah sure. Because a company paywalling functions has anything to do with network configuration.

What people like you dont understand is that there is no minimum requirement of knowledge to selfhost. It is completely braindead how often i have to tell people how a network works and now i have to explain to people why software configuration is not network configuration.

Good question.

I think I have to distinguish between my opinion on what a legal system should be vs what i think it is first.

Imo a legal system should just elaborate on justice, ie equalizing between opposing parties on the fixed principles of ist foundation. For example if you have the rule that nobody shall be harmed, that includes all harm and no matter for what reason, except necessary to keep harm from others etc.

What I think the legal system is in most countries (or rather has become, but i’ll explain why that was the only choice anyway) is a way for the rich and powerful to excert power over the masses. You need to be insanely privileged to work in the legal system or to influence it, you need a lot of money to hire a lawyer, etc.

The country i live in is infamous for its complicated and blown up legal system. It is exactly what I explained before.

Why is it systemic? We have the issue that we live in an unfair system that thrives on inequality and left by itself it is cruel and heartless. A legal system needs to try its best to keep the cruel parts at bay which osnt possible long term. In socialist systems, despite their flaws, that is much easier because the system is based on similarity.

I think we need a better system (you can guess) and then the legal system will collapse to the most basic stuff like theft, fights and such. The whole “legally stealing from customers” shtick will be gone.

You can just add them and start them. If it doesnt work immediately, you can look at protondb which solution works best.

The issue is that you are comparing david to goliath. Its okay to compare the two but lets not act as if we’re not comparing the homemade go kart to a ferrari that has gotten trillions in funding over the years.

Linux could be half as good and still be the unbelievably better choice. With them trading blows is like the only time in history where david actually has a chance at winning.

Resilience. Federated social media is resilient against censoring and corporate takeover.

It.does however not help with eee attacks which I why most of us block threads and a lot will block other fediverse sized (or larger) single instances of eg bluesky etc.

Other, less important (to me) benefits are no algorithms, no profit motive, no ads.

The fediverse is just better in any way.

I did not make a “first” or “second” post about this. This is it.

Neat. Thanks for suggesting.

So close! Gen AI is not the ememy. Capitalism is. Gen AI is the tool.

Already done. Thanks for the suggestion though. :)

You’re pretty hostile. Good luck with that attitude.