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The soviets also had the problem that they were an autocracy who had little regard for the conditions of their people. They were also huge . Community level programs like this can …

This is the classic answer to the classic question about anarchy: "who will do the unpleasant, demeaning work?" "We only think it's unpleasant because we make it unpleasant. We can…

Of course queer as "unusual" predates "queer" as gay. :D It's a reclaimed slur. It was a negative label applied to people who ultimately decided to make that negative label a part …

Funding is a huge part, for sure, but also getting incorporated. Talk to a lawyer and your state about founding an LLC or sole proprietorship. Ezpz. Done in an hour. Talk about fou…

Would the author say, "I am a ..." and end with any of the above? If so, they identify as that group. That's what identity is , it's the set of things you consider yourself to be. …

Well, queer encompasses more than just gay and lesbian people. Non-binary people can be queer, heterosexual trans people can be queer, asexual people can be queer. Same with polyam…

I think you've both got the right answer and explained it with a very negative framing. Gender and Sexual Minority, LGBTQ+, and queer all describe a largely similar set of folks. Q…

I use the label queer as a self selected one. (Not self imposed, it's not an impression.) Queer is not the same as LGBTQ+ (queer is more overly political). My identity is both give…

A hundred percent this. I'm not a lesbian, but I'm going to the mat if needed to protect lesbians. We protect us.

Everyone is labeled by default. Unless you weren't assigned a gender at birth, don't have a skin color, don't have sexual preferences, didn't have an economic situation you grew up…

Doesn't land for me. I'm queer, my identity isn't huge, but it does include queer. That alone is enough to make some folks want to do violence to me (I have first hand experience w…

It is orders of magnitude more challenging to found a co-op. Let alone get enough capital to get started. We've set up our society to make it difficult for worker owned businesses.…

Good news then, because many of his ideas have been demonstrated!

^ case in point.

I'd encourage you to read The Conquest of Bread for some high level thoughts on other ways we could arrange things that a) aren't primitive and b) aren't capitalism.

Slavery means lots of things. Chattel slavery, yes, but also forced labor like in us prisons. Indentured labor, child soldiers, forced marriage, etc etc. The concept of "wage slave…

I love how many comments here are, "I have no domain expertise, but these seem like nitpicks". If a user provides feedback like this, listen. Getting this sort of detail from a use…

Amazon is running out of engineers too. The way that company treats workers is finally catching up to them (hopefully).

I would argue that Soviet states were autocracies (and some would argue they were capitalist, just state capitalist.) Stalin sucks, flat out. Any socialist or communist who thinks …

Karl Marx talks a lot about alienation as capitalism advances. Alienation from our labor, alienation from our society, and eventually alienation from the self. Independent of how y…

The latter. I make something like 750k a year, people in my income range can afford more and still live very comfortably.

The third option is that it genuinely makes me happy, because it implies we're taking care of everyone more. My money going to charity is fine. My money going to taxes implies othe…

The number of times I've been told I don't believe my beliefs because they don't make rational economic sense is innumerable. I'm happy when my tax rate goes up. This apparently re…

I found it the opposite. I felt touched, it was very human and raw and real. It's not an essay about a problem, it's an essay about experiencing a problem. The former can be solved…