Although Lemmy’s userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.

    • @nikaaa
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      36 months ago

      From the link:

      It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

      Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

      Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

      • Flying Squid
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        46 months ago

        Look, I’m all for the squid to control the means of propulsion, but it’s hard convincing others…

        • @nikaaa
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          16 months ago

          I’m introducing the theory of an “r-factor” that measures how capitalistic a country is.

          r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.

          r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.

          in-between them, there’s a linear interpolation.

          (i invented that “r-factor” as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)

          i’m for r = 0.5 btw.