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0 pointsEGreg4mo ago0 comments

Capitalism and competition produce the results I describe further down the comment. It escalates to planetary catastrophe

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groundzeros20154mo ago

Let’s focus on the specific claims in your comment.

> People got canned for resisting the corporate overlords. That’s capitalism

Being told to do things by your boss is a problem as old as time. Except with capitalism you can change bosses — a luxury which has not existed throughout history.

EGregOP4mo ago

Okay great. Now keep going with the rest of my comment and address the rest point by point. You’ll find that it expands from that first point, and describes the consequences of capitalism and competition as an organizing principle.

hex4def64mo ago

We are discussing UI/Icon design, not the geopolitical implications of AGI or the Holocene extinction event.

Why should someone that disagrees with you on whether capitalism is uniquely responsible for bad icon design now be forced to defend it for every sin / shortcoming ranging from the social inequity to ecological collapse?

groundzeros20154mo ago

Sure, I guess I’m here.

Why is capitalist competition worse than any other form of competition? Wouldn’t wartime competition over land and sovereignty be far worse? Didn’t the Soviet Union have extreme forms of political competition?

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groundzeros20154mo ago

Let’s focus on the specific claims in your comment.

> People got canned for resisting the corporate overlords. That’s capitalism

Being told to do things by your boss is a problem as old as time. Except with capitalism you can change bosses — a luxury which has not existed throughout history.

EGregOP4mo ago

hex4def64mo ago

We are discussing UI/Icon design, not the geopolitical implications of AGI or the Holocene extinction event.

groundzeros20154mo ago

Sure, I guess I’m here.

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