• ronigami@lemmy.world
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    1. They can be more or less free. You aim for more and don’t achieve perfect freedom but it can be close.
    2. This is why bodies like the FTC are supposed to exist.
    3. Fuck you
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        1. If they’re all in different positions then they aren’t all antithetical.
        2. Free and fragmented. When you let things get too consolidated and centralized they stop being free.
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          But the point of capitalism, a system where capital (ownership) is valued is centralizing. So if you let it do the entire central point of the thing it’s anti-democratic

          You can’t create strong values and pervasive systemic imperatives to behave a certain way and then jyst arbitrarily switch on a dime. Thats not how human behavior or physics or literally anything besides fuvking magic works. That system will always crush the rules made to bind it, thats its nature, thats how it was designed and what i have been told its greatest virtue is. Expecting you can make it behave differently without a power differential so spectacular that this system cannot be a substantial factor in anything (like, a step or two on the kardashev scale) is clown shit, and nobody who thinks like that should be considered competent to operate heavy machinery (like cars) or consent to sex.

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            This is like saying cars are designed to go fast, people driving them want to go fast, the entire purpose of them is to go fast. Adding speed limits defeats their entire purpose.

            If you believe systems always destroy themselves there is no hope for you because that isn’t the point. You will die someday, that isn’t the point. The point is to live.