750
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
750 points (98.6% liked)
World News
39396 readers
2979 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_propaganda
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
https://truthout.org/articles/pedagogy-for-profit-education-under-capitalism/
The capitalists own major media, the capitalists influence curriculum, as they've captured the state governments that set them, from K-Colleges of Economics to say "free market" capitalism is the only way kiddies. It indoctrinates millions of non-wealthy Americans to advocate against their own interests. Hi.
They use their power over government not only to deregulate their own industries for profit, but to defund social supports and then use their media to shriek "see how government doesn't work?! Privatize everything!"
You can sing the praises of capitalism if you want, but capitalism not straight jacketed/draconianly regulated is a social blight that removes all humanity from society. A society shouldn't be in service to an economy, an economy should be a lowly tool to distribute goods and services for the benefit of society.
Actually it was my economics classes in university that highlighted how bad things are and how corporations need to be highly regulated. Even the professor who attempted to show us we couldn't regulate corporations and thus shouldn't try used a simulation that made it apparent corporations would strip the land and ocean of everything if they could.
It definitely depends on the university you go to, there's ideological differences in economic schools of thought. But the observed science is very simple and repeatedly proves demand driven programs at the bottom of an economy are far more powerful than supply driven programs at the top.
I will sing the praises of capitalism because I understand it in a way most people on this site do not. It has done more to improve the standard of living and bring people out of poverty than anything.
Yes there are poltical issues in our society, especially America which isn't the world and isn't the only capitalist country. But that is a political issue.
People just need to think more about politics and understand how the economy works more. That's where the issues lie.
That's fine. Our trajectory is pretty well set anyway. We'll keep insisting more growth/metastasis is the solution for the consequences of reckless growth/metastasis.
Have fun blaming everything except the root cause on the way down.
If someone comes up with a better alternative I've love to hear it.
So far no one has.
There are many.
That's a co-op.
They exist in capitalism. There is no reason they are seperate to capitalism. They aren't.
Plenty of co-ops have existed. But in a modern world with globalisation shares are easier to manage than co-ops.
So many alternatives to capitalism.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
So many alternatives
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I'm not watching a 30 minute video from some randomer youtuber.
You'll have to condense it and tell me why if this alternatives are better than capitalism have they never been used and why aren't they being used now?
Well no tankies on this site wants to learn basic economics so why should I listen to some random guy rambling on for 30 minutes.
I don't think it's too much to ask for you to explain coherently and succinctly your point.
The fact you can't shows you're more interesed in spamming easy to copy links in hope that you can overwhelm me with content and beat me into submission. It just shows you have a poor defense and are resorting to other means to win an argument that don't rely on the argument itself.
You’re not worth the time.
It's very easy to be a contrarian if you just point out issues without understanding the system as almost everything in the world has some form of issues. But it is a lot harder to understand than system and fix it and it's a lot harder to understand that system well enough and come up with an alternative. You don't understand capitalism and you don't understand the alternatives.
I think you should learn some economic theory. Maybe go out and buy a economics 101 book or watch some YouTube videos.
Great advice. Maybe I’ll give Das Kapital a try.
Maybe this
I did some research and couldn’t discern if the author was a classical economist, or a proponent of Keynesian or neo-Keynesian economics. Regardless, until the “invisible hand” remedies poverty from wealth inequality and homelessness nonexistent; I’ll stick with Marxism.
Homelessness can be fixed with government spending and capitalist countries has largely fixed homelessness. There always going to be some people that don't want a home forwhatever reason so never going to be 0 unless you lock certain people in their homes.
Well yea we will all have equal weather when we have nothing under Marxism. Not sure that's ideal though.
It is ideal to me. Overconsumption and Climate Change. Something’s going to give. And Mother Nature doesn’t bank at Wells Fargo.
Communism is inefficient though it leads to more waste. And not to mention most of the biggest ecological disasters have happened under communism.
Good luck short-selling during the water wars.
Technology and science is pushing humanity forward.
And despite capitalists claims, it's the government supplying both, not the corporations.
Take billions in public funding, sell the result for profit, claim no one else could do that and no alternative exists.
Tale as old as time.
You need to look up the amount of funding corporations do verses government.
Also government spending in a capitalistic society is a good thing. It's like education. Governments put money into education and get "nothing" back for it. It just wastes money. But Governments do not work like businesses. Governments work through taxes so anything that can increase the amount of taxes they make is a good thing.
So something like education or funding is a cost that is recuperated in taxes.
Getting business to do things is just more efficient then doing it state controlled. That's why America did so well from the war and Germany had issues.
The understanding of economics and capitalism is very low on this website.