I know some of these numbers

“The mine owners did not find the gold asteroid, they did not mine the gold asteroid, they did not mill the gold asteroid, but by some weird alchemy all the gold from the asteroid belonged to them!”

Bill Haywood

Oh I know it’s not impossible, I did say virtually impossible :)

I’ve tried many times at this point, with a bunch of different groups in different places

antisocial

What you say is true, and yet there’s something more deeply unsettling. The ideology and founding of the U.S. is at its core anti-social. So is the competitive economy (and so on). It’s a dog eat dog structure of things, not just a few dip shits in the <1% (although it is that too)

With those two incredibly low bars you eliminated like 30% of people around me every day, which is a good way of illustrating how insufferable it is to keep moving through this society

Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.

I whole-heartedly agree, and yet it is virtually impossible to do such a thing as “build community” at this point, at least in the United States. There is like a pervasive anti-community dark magic / anti-matter sort of thing

This person has citied

For capitalism to be “good” basically everyone would have to be a saint. That’s why something better than capitalism is needed, because that is far from the case, and actually impossible

I agree but who knows if that will be in 3, 10, or 20 or 50 years

I’ll chip in as long as I can fly it – I have 1000+ hours in flight simulator

Yeah, that is exactly what I’ve thought of Yanis V’s “critique” as well. Well said

It’s a kind of rebrand of Marxism that is missing out on some important points, even the defining elements of capitalism which are still in place. Like, he is saying capitalism is not capitalism anymore? His idea is that capitalism has been “killed” which is disingenuous at best (if he’s just using it as hyperbole) and completely wrong at worst, since we are indeed still broadly in the thick of it. It does seem sorta like he just wanted to sell a book or hear himself talk etc.