• @Cryophilia
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    You can’t make the minimum the average lol

    • @friend_of_satan
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      302 months ago

      You can if you want to increase the average…

      • @Cryophilia
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        You thought inflation was bad before lol

        • felixthecat
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          Inflation is directly related to the amount of money being printed by the federal reserve.

          Anyone really worried about inflation should be concerned about how wallstreet and the fed are in bed together. But wallstreet and the fed both do anything they can to distract everyone from that simple truth. The day it is made illegal to hire someone out of government to any banking or wallstreet firm that SHOULD be a conflict of interest is the day you will see a monetary policy that makes sense for the average worker instead of wallstreet. So of course because of this it will never happen in the USA.

          • @Cryophilia
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            22 months ago

            Inflation is directly related to the amount of money being printed by the federal reserve.

            But not solely related. Everything you just said was beside the point.

    • @[email protected]
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      You can if you want people to be able to live in some degree of comfort, security, and dignity

      • @Cryophilia
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        That’s not how economics works. Like at all. It’s what a 10 year old would do if given control of the economy.

        • @[email protected]
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          It can be, and theres no good reason it shouldn’t be that way. Economics is man made concept that can be changed at will, it isn’t some infallible law of nature

          • @Cryophilia
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            Economics is man made concept that can be changed at will

            Possibly the most naive statement in history. Holy shit, read a history book.

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              Ive read plenty and our modern concepts around economics don’t go back that far. There have been innumerable societies that were able to create generally equitable systems of resource distribution throughout human history that weren’t contingent on modern concepts around economics. If those before us were able to do it with significantly more limitations, there’s no reason we can’t do it (and even improve upon it) now. Try reading some books that don’t lick boot

              • @Malidak
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                32 months ago

                Would you care to give an example of a successful society of the past that achieved what you are describing without slaves or other means of super cheap labor. I can’t think of a single one but I am very interested.

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                  Do the societies have to be mostly white people in order to count? Because before the white men came pretty much every indigenous society was living pretty in tune with nature and didn’t suffer a few rich cunts exploiting the vast majority of the rest.

                  • @Malidak
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                    12 months ago

                    I don’t understand why you feel the need to be hostile and make this about white men. This is about civilization theory.

                    If your point was that white civilizations made the world into the mess it is right now, I wholeheartedly agree with you. It is however not the point of my inquiry. I was generally curious about bigger societies that managed to stay relatively non hierarchial which would result in an equal share of ressources (what this whole thread was about) From what I have read, all bigger “successful” civs developed a strong hierarchy which resulted in a big wealth gap as well and/or built their empire through expansion and as a result slaves and POW who granted them free labour to built their infrastructure. Some examples:

                    Egypt (not white) China (not white) Khmer (not white) Japan (not white) Osman empire (not white) Persian (not white) Babylon (not white) India (not white)

                    Imo indigenous tribes are not helpful in this discussion because I am interested in examples or solutions for big societies and tribal structures are very different because people usually all know each other over 1 or two axis which strongly discouraged selfish behavior (it got you shunned).

                    I am very interested in African and ancient American civilizations but there is not a lot of unbiased literature out there (To my knowledge - which is why I asked for more info)

                • @[email protected]
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                  Most indigenous American tribes. Numerous central and south american ones as well. Plenty of pre-written history societies show no signs of forced labor or enslavement. Tons of early written societies as well. Currently existing examples include the zapatistas and rojava. They’ve built societies that are t dependent on a capitalist framework to persist. You can throw a rock and hit one.

                  Edit: sorry for the snark, I didn’t check the usernames before commenting and thought you were the guy who was being an ass. I’ll be happy to dig up some links for you in a new reply. If this is something you’d really like to dive into I can’t recommend David Graeber’s The Dawn of Everything enough. It’s a fantastic read

                  • @Malidak
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                    12 months ago

                    No offense taken. But I am a bit worries sometimes about the hostility towards people asking questions.

                    Tbh. So far I mostly read about western, Arab and Asian civilizations and there really aren’t many examples when you go bigger in size of small tribal living. In my opinion, tribal life is a lot different and naturally more non hierarchial because mostly everybody knows everyone and if you act too selfish you’ll be shunned. From what I read it becomes problematic as soon as the civ reaches a high number of people. Then they tended to get expansionist and hierarchial which resulted in either slaves or prisoners of war with lower social status or some kind of caste system.

                    I will read into the dawn of everything and the other link you provided on the other thread and am happy for more fodder. I will be traveling through south America soon and wanna read up upon their ancient history anyway.

                    Thanks for taking the time to look it up and edit!