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I always appreciate Armin's posts. I think the key point is that the FSL is necessary when profit is required. The GPL is a philosophy of social distribution more than a way to bui…

Oh I definitely do not believe that, thanks for pointing that out. A positive peace definitely includes no missles flying, but it also includes justice.

MLK Jr. has a lot to say to disagree with you. https://letterfromjail.com/ > over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached…

- Everyday Utopia by Kristen Ghodsee - The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas - No Bosses by Michael Albert Everyday Utopia was certainly a beautiful read, it is ultimately a book ab…

I had a couple strategies 1) Do not give too much wealth to PCs. Keeping the heroes poor is a kind of dramatic tension that not many campaigns explore! 2) Give them ways to spend t…

I'm using reparations as a general term of making people whole. The landlords, whether or not they did anything morally wrong, have taken what they should not have (collusion). The…

My argument is that if harm can be proved, those harmed must be made whole. I don't understand how that is frivolous. I am not the one saying that a collusion suit should move forw…

Funny enough, Olufemi also writes a book on this!

Yes, if it causes harm to people. Being a landlord is a job (so I'm told), do some math, figure out how much is fair (cost:labor calculation) then ask on the open market if people …

Well if you believe that the problem is that there are not enough houses, these people did not collude, and nothing needs to change. That make sense.

To define exceedingly. Well I guess I just see this as a natural partner in the housing crisis. To combat things like this is to help solve the housing problem today. The prices ar…

Well the problem is that with these software systems, we have already answered your question. If we do not change something (after seeing this!) then we have allowed 'dumb' collusi…

I am not saying the solution here is by giving people dollars. But creating a system where landlords (by disallowing this kind of price centralization) can't screw over their tenan…

Today, we punish people by taking away their money. Taking away someones money should not doom people to poverty over this kind of stuff! I am not saying kill all landlords here. I…

I agree that contemporary rhetoric on reparations is quite poor. But, scholars today agree that reparations are a way of understanding our government's position on change and not o…

I believe that the matter of their defense is irrelevant. The truth is that real people were harmed by this, and they deserve reparations today. As to who pays, it must be the land…

I have been listening to Yanis a lot lately. His ideas are quite provocative. His economic ideas are quite refreshing, to hear an economist talking about what a post-subjective-mon…

Yeah let's let the oligarchs have their money! They are best-case as bad as worst-case research funding! Therefore they should have all that power!

Let this be a reminder that our avenues for change in the world are artificially limited. Due to that, we must not wait for some allowed moment to ask for change, but demand it eve…

This article asks a good question. What is the point of capitalism? If these acquisitions exist simply to make the line go up, why? Bandcamp will NOT be better off under this new r…

> Towards sustainable systems The same words as 'Not sustainable systems'. This does nowhere near enough to create true sustainability. As long as we allow drivel corpo-blogspam li…

Wow, powerful stutff. It really shows that capitalism commodotizes all. Even being spied on is given appropriate value. What an insane system we have.

I agree with you. The Democrats and Republicans in our government mostly agree on the topic we are discussing in this thread. There is no radical movement discussed within our gove…