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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This mis-allocation of innovative capacity isn't an accident.

It isn't mis-allocation, it's the correct allocation but those doing the allocating aren't the ones the author thinks they are.

It's the predictable outcome of allowing market forces alone to direct technological development.

Here's the essential flaw with this article: the people are not the ones with the power to allow or disallow. The author thinks that with the right number of votes, democratic institutions will correct the direction of technological development. This is not the case. Instead, those with power and money dictate the direction of technological development for their ends. Which includes ensuring the ineffectiveness of said democratic institutions.

It's the result of specific choices about how we organize our economy

It's not "our" economy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

What should I improve?

Your communication about what you're selling. You're selling hosting services. Please make that clear up front.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

None of us can predict that

Sure we can. A prediction is stating what we think will happen, not stating what will happen.

It will be gradual, and we will suffer a painful decline long before other countries in mainland Europe

What do you mean by "long"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

it will be gradual rather than instantaneous

Of course it won't be "instantaneous" but I still can't see how brexit will have an impact. The people who experience the first famine will be the same ones who experience the death of billions. Brexit will mean nothing.

I'm curious, would you be willing to put some dates to your expectations?

  1. Year of first famine.
  2. Year that population reaches half of 2025 population.
  3. Year that brexit ceases to be relevant to living people.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

When we're facing food shortages around the world, the UK will suffer before others.

Firstly, this doesn't follow from what preceded it. States in the EU aren't the only states on the planet that export food.

Secondly, I think I see what you're trying to say: you think that as the planet slides into famine, the UK will be worse off compared to EU states in particular because during the slide into death, the slope will be ever so slightly steeper than some countries in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

we will be the first to suffer

Uhh.. eh? What do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

countries can sell to their neighbours

They can't sell food they don't have. How can you still be thinking that climate change is going to be like a temporary blip in food supply? Don't you understand that we're all fucked? You really think that Brexit and all the rest of the bureaucratic nonsense people have considered important up until now will mean anything when half the population of the planet has starved to death? Don't you get where we're headed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s not like people, especially anarchists, somehow didn’t notice that people can sometimes be awful to each other.

In my experience, many people who follow an ideology or who have some deluded conception of reality or humanity believe that people will cease being awful to each other when some specific better future comes about. Communists with the revolution, Christians with the return of Jesus, deluded "spiritual" people with the New Earth or "new age" people with the Age of Aquarius and even, dare I say, some anarchists with non-hierarchical society.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

You came to the anarchist instance to tell people that mutual aid isn't believable?

No that's not anything like what I said.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

The existence of mutual aid behaviours doesn't mean much, in any animals but particularly human beings in the context of anarchism. Humans can cooperate when it's beneficial and also stab each other in the back and step on one another when it's beneficial. The behaviours aren't mutually exclusive. Anarchists should expect negative behaviour along with mutual aid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A click bait headline would also be "Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature".

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