This is so dystopian
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This makes sense, thanks for explaining. A follow up question: how is “democratic socialism” a form of socialism then? Because it doesn’t really sound like socialism. It sounds like capitalism with some wealth redistribution
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You can block keywords like ‘trump’ so those posts don’t show up in your feed
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Wearing glasses strongly correlates with how much time you spent outside as a kid. Less time outside = more likely to wear glasses
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My sense, as a Canadian, is that Canadians generally don’t like this idea. We wish the best for you guys down there and hope you manage to figure things out, but we don’t really want to get involved
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Whereas anthropic have shown decent signs of “diversifying” as it were.
How is Anthropic diversifying?
I think its based on Gemini now
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That’s super interesting. I like that model of governance, seems much more stable the the alternatives
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As a non-Indigenous unperson
Whats an unperson?
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The each according to their labour versus needs distinction is helpful here
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Universal health care - more successful than private health care
Trade unions
Maternity leave…
I know Europe is famous for this but we have that here in Canada too
This is interesting, thanks for sharing
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But we still prohibit children from having drugs. Legal drugs (alcohol, nicotine, cannabis) are illegal to sell to children, even though we can legally sell them to adults.
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That’s fair enough. It would be nice if on all the other mediums the filmmaker could say “hey the best way to watch me is on Peertube.” But unfortunately it looks like the only way to monetize on Peertube would be through crowd contribution platforms, such as Patreon, which might cause issues for some people who want to put their videos up there. The upside to this tho is that there’s no ads and no paywalls, so I think its a tradeoff is worth making
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but it’s nowhere near what anyone who relies on an audience would consider adequate.
Well, we’ve got to start somewhere. If we more people post there then more of an audience will come
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It’s not that risky to become a doctor. It’s true that it requires going into a lot of debt but when you’re guaranteed a starting wage of 400k minimum once you graduate, then that’s not a major concern for most people. That said I do think more can and should be done to recruit people from rural areas, especially people from indigenous communities
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For example, a democratic socialist society could follow in the Swiss
Is Switzerland a direct democracy?
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Thats interesting. Where do you live if you dont mind me asking?
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I agree a communist system could make good hospitals (in Canada, all health care is run by the government and private hospitals are illegal, so even though we aren’t communist our healthcare system in isolation more or less is). That said I still think you need a state for this. Do you still think you could make this with a culture of giving, like you mentioned earlier? Genuinely asking
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How would it even be possible to have a stateless society on the scale that communists envision? For example how could China become stateless (I know that might be their ultimate aim but still, it’s a useful example)? It doesn’t at all seem feasible to me
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The historical context definitely helps illuminate the issue. I’m not sure why you’re getting downvotes, this was an interesting analysis
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On top of that, if there was no money incentive to go be a doctor in a big city, far more people would be good doctors near small towns.
Here in Canada you get HUGE pay bumps if you agree to go practice medicine in a rural community, yet rural communities are still chronically understaffed (granted, we dont exactly have a capitalist healthcare system, but the point still stands).