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  • Having frequent or traumatic experiences with members of a group is not a good reason to hate that group at all unless it’s actually the group’s defining feature directly causing it, and it’s their own choice.

    That’s different to suffering from trauma as a result, which obviously you can’t control, and might result in some behaviour that looks similar on the surface.



  • LwL@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzNot a good sign
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    The wealth of industrialized nations is only possible through exploitation of developing countries. When conditions there become literally unlivable, everything collapses and everyone loses. maybe russia could slightly benefit since they aren’t doing super well as is and have a lot of land that will become pretty good. Even then, they can kiss goodbye to seafood forever, and it certainly won’t be easy.


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    5 days ago

    Cleaning sewers? Generally anything waste related?

    There are some people that actually kinda love those jobs, but idk if there are enough of them. And a game of chicken where the first person to become too annoyed at the smell in the streets fixes the issue would be… not great.

    But anyway that’d only ever be an issue if there’s no market at all but that’s not a necessity to not have capitalism








  • Yeah, it’s more about that. The fastest acting, lowest overhead form of government is a dictatorship. The slowest would probably be trying to reach a consensus from discussion with the whole populace. You’ll always need delegates for decision making if you want to make any society wide decisions, but it has proven very hard to make elected officials actually act in the people’s best interest.



  • Yeah, lots of correct observations, but also lots of wrong conclusions. I’d even argue the very first point about culture is very relevant, because japanese culture inherently puts a small bit of breaks on the aspects of capitalism that spiral out of control (they have tons of hypercapitalist issues too, though).

    I think it’s correct that having private companies compete has certain advantages in railway infrastructure, if the right framework is given. Imagine someone from here was to start a railway company - they would know about induced demand, about the importance of having frequent service even at times of lower demand to enable rail as primary transport. They wouldn’t have to convince rightoids that spending public money on that is worth it, they could just do it and see the results. In general the good thing about markets is that they enable less planning overhead as everyone focuses on their own thing. Loosely some sort of swarm intelligence.

    But none of that will ever work when cars are effectively subsidized and even private rail companies would still be beholden to massive political hurdles for building new lines. Though especially the latter is a real question about tradeoffs of benefit for society vs. individual preference with no single correct answer.






  • Tbh I would guess that the average cis person cares less about their gender than the average trans person. Not that plenty wouldn’t in fact feel quite tortured by a forced gender change, but strength of gender identity is a spectrum in itself, and to actively decide that you want to transition - whether or not you actually do it - already requires you to be somewhere on the stronger feeling side, so there’s some selection bias.