If money can buy fame etc and he clearly has plenty, perhaps it’s a lack of caring about it. Would seem consistent with his behavior overall in the last couple of decades.

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True, the rewards will naturally flow to the top, and it’s important to keep that from happening in excess.

And that the current time period is pretty great even if you’re kinda middle income rich.

Yep.

The lesson every left-of-center person certainly takes from this is that nearly everything has become dramatically better in the last 200 years. And will presumably continue to get better in the future.

Rather, you feel annoyed by the political leanings,

No, that’s close to describing the problem, but doesn’t quite describe the issue accurately. The problem is that the quality of the propaganda from that instance is distasteful to me. Consistently so. This post is an obvious example.

Also the level of discourse by the users from that instance is problematic as well. You’re right that the problem is more subtle than with people from hexbear and lemmygrad, but there clearly are plenty of problematic and loud users in lemmy.ml as well.

You probably wouldn’t call the level of discourse in Twitter “annoying” either, would you?

Instances may be blocked in your user account, in case doing so makes your personal experience feel more relaxed or productive. You may also consider restricting your participation to communities that enforce a conformity you find suitable.

Yes, I have instance-level blocked lemmy.ml long ago. But the block doesn’t seem to be doing much. Definitely not the same effect as when an instance blocks another instance.

All that said, you may be right that I shouldn’t be so harsh against lemmy.ml. There are also many high-quality posters in there, and blocking individual users might be enough.

Exactly. Many 40+ year olds do have the money.

Yes, that’s the reason. Not your incessant peddling of obvious bullshit into everybody’s mouths. I’m also defending your freedom to block obvious shit instances, whatever you might think that means.

I wish instance blocks would also block all posts from people from the instance.

What does it even do, actually? Just block the communities in the instance?

As somebody in that age class, having worked for about 20 years, I might go study if I got fired even if the job market was awesome. It’s just an attractive pivot.

I cannot know about “horrible”, but at least many control-seizing attempts ended up bickering about who actually gets to control things. Anarchists vs Communists in Catalania for instance.

I’m guessing you’re not defining large-scale attempts at Communism like early Communist China and Soviet Union as worker paradises. Those experiments clearly led to worker suffering though.

Devil is in the details, a lot of seemingly conflicting things can work badly or they can work well depending on how well things are run day-to-day. And then there’s the problem that even if you start with a good system, you also have to maintain that system every day to the future or things will slowly (or sometimes rapidly) start going to shit. Some worker-controlled workplaces are good places to work, I’m sure, and some privately owned enterprises are as well.

None of these things is the reason why communism is extremist and horrible. But you probably knew that.

Why would I read Citizen Santa Claus’s book?

They don’t care. They just read from some place that Chappelle is evil now so he must be shunned.

We got rid of fundamental religion with somebody telling exactly how to think about everything, but I guess some people just cannot live without one.

glm-4.7: I fixed it

That sucks when the dice roll for you this badly, but just as a number, 15 is practically nothing. Millions of people drive a Tesla every day.

Paraphrasing Louis CK, the things you can do if you ignore basic human rights is pretty awesome.

How does complicating the door locks make the cars more profitable?

I know this might be a bit controversial, but it seems to me that Epstein was a better person than Trump is.

I don’t think he was Trump’s friend.

I also think Osama bin Laden was a better person than Trump is. That’s probably not as controversial though.

Threads? Eugh