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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

I would argue that the next step forward is to formally design an economic system that uses the principles of both. America's Constitution was based on the Magna Carta and other concepts, but went a step further and made dedicated rules for how political power interacts. While badly dated now, those rules lasted 250 years for a nation that exploded beyond a mere 13 colonies into a continental superpower.

I think making a clean ruleset that incorporates socialism and capitalism would allow them to excel at the things they do, while keeping their worst aspects at bay.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

My favorite lefty take to hit a capitalism/libertarian shill with is that I don't really think a communist/socialist project like the Soviet Union is the future. And honestly, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who does want that.

Its becoming a pretty common take these days that capitalism is fine IF human and environmental needs are met first.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The way I get downvoted when proposing UBI for free necessities (shelter, basic car, basic food, utilities, healthcare, ect) and using capitalism for luxuries (boats, bigger house, gambling, vacations, ect), it often feels like that neither side of the aisle are happy about conceptualizing a hybrid.

Much like Newton, I feel that Adam Smith's writings on Capitalism had limits, because there is only so much that he could observe and measure in his time. Ditto for Marx. Both seem valid, but the question is in what way, and how we can use them to put together a theory of economics that is actually helpful.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago

The trick is to talk to real actual human beings and not people terminally online enough to know about Lemmy.

Find a lefty book club and you'll find reasonable people.

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