Unless the whole system crashes, … would be a plus

I already knew someone would reply that, and addressed it.

You can’t say any of that. You are enjoying a product of a system as it exists. If it crashed and would never be rebuilt, all you’d have left is independent cinema/games. This already exists, and you could go consume that. But you don’t.

There’s no guarantee that in absence of big corpo with profits there will be anything produced like your favorite TV show.

I can promise you one thing: if no one pays for what they watch, there will be no TV shows. Scripting, cast, production, and delivery, all cost a lot of money. If tomorrow you inact a low that prohibits charging money for media content, no new system will emerge. Or what you’ll see is kinda what YouTube has: short videos with built-in ads, and potentially sponsored content that you’ll never know about.

So, right now, you’re damaging the only system we know that produces content that you enjoy.

Humans are inherently creative, creative work would still be made

Ah, I see. You want someone else to work for free, so you get your content for free.

Maybe you never talked to an independent artist. Who are in their 30s barely manage to make their ends meet, and are looking for any chance to get into a different career path.

No, anon, you in particular aren’t morally safe. You make lame excuses for your inability to pay.

While your mega corporation is extremely rich, if tomorrow everyone starts pirating, that corporation will go bankrupt in a year. And all those TV shows you enjoyed won’t be produced anymore. No more new movies with cool stunts and special effects. No more games with insane graphics.

As a consumer of that big corpo content you don’t have the moral high ground to say “I never cared anyways about your shitty mass-consumer stuff”. You care because you pirated it to watch/play it.

So in the end, you only got your cake because someone else overpaid for theirs. Infinite replicability argument does not hold because it costs money to make content. And it’s a risky investment, so at times you want to get more back than you invested, cuz other times you’ll spend 50 millions on a game nobody wants to play, and lose 40 of those.

By pirating you inadvertently cause damage to the industry and if everyone followed your steps your favorite games/movies would ceise to exist. But for now it works cuz most people don’t pirate. So, are you morally safe, anon?

It started so he could creep on girls on their campus. Nerds had hard time to socialize, so they made a digital social network to help them with the cause. Dunno if it did. But his early interviews are creepy af, lol

That’s a far cry from how china suppresses protests. And really a small individual example. Overall there’s a clear freedom of expression and civil protest in the US. The same absolutely cannot be said about china.

Yeah, you get even more clouds.

A comment on lemmy. Never need to read it, it will always have the same conclusion “capitalism bad”. No matter the topic.

TL;DR of lemmy: capitalism bad, now you don’t need to open the app at all.

They perfectly can. It requires them to make a collective choices that will require individual sacrifices in order to achieve collective gains (assuming people actually see it that way).

And that’s clearly not in anyone’s interest. And you’re one to tell them what’s wrong or right.

There’s no system. There are free individuals living their lifes as they see fit. But you somehow keep imagining an evil monster that suppresses everyone’s free will, while you, the hero, are unaffected.

A vote for a party which will benefit the majority

We can stop the discussion right here. You clearly know better than the voters themselves what’s best for them. In my opinion, it would be the most efficient solution for us to nominate you to be a dictator for life, as you will achieve a better outcome for everyone than them thinking for themselves.

The rest of your argument continues with insults towards the voters disagreeing with your political views “uneducated, influenced by media, etc”. You, obviously, do see yourself as a superior being and thinker.

I don’t think debating democratic choices with you makes any sense. You’re anti-democratic.

All those things are from a past where democracy wasn’t a thing and indeed you needed to uprise to an oppressive power.

This is still the case for the majority of the planet.

It is not the case in the developed nations. And even in the US Trump has won the popular vote.

You feathering a tax collector is an act against the will of the majority. This is not a revolutionary act, because you’re not acting brave and sacrificing yourself to voice a majority’s opinion.

Contrary, your actions are radical activism. You represent a minority, and yet you so firmly believe in your own righteousness that you justify violence.

It’s a point that’s impossible to get across in this echo chamber. But it’s also why this echo chamber will never achieve anything.

Via democracy or violence, for a regime change you first need to figure out a way to get the majority to agree with you.

What are you on about? You can easily vote for far left in pretty much any of the functioning democracies in Europe. And if a radical left party were to win, they could easily implement a profit cap.

You’re talking about some “ruling class” as if we’re in a society where such bounds exist by birth right of some sort. Anyone can become a politician and be elected to be the main voice of the country’s legislative and executive branches. You don’t need violence to radically change everything, you need a majority’s approval. And, I’m telling you, your ideas are already out there and they’re not selling. They’re not selling even peacefully, but you somehow dream that someone will die for them?

The majority of people in an average western European country want to drive their car and fly to their vacation destination. They also might heat their homes with gas.

Destruction of climate is not anti-democratic. There are green parties in every parliament and they get 15-30% of votes. E.g. only that many voters consider the issue of climate change to be pressing. The others believe things are fine, or that moderate measures are enough.

You keep preaching “evil corpos oppress us poor”. But this is simply not true. The majority of the population is pretty content with the status quo, and if they weren’t they could change it any election cycle.

Based take.

There’s a pretty reasonable societal model (that scales beyond 10 people living in a cave) that has so far prevented sociopatic behavior.

We have laws and we have democracy to establish them. Whatever happens in your dumbfukistant, in western Europe it’s unimaginable to be able to use violence and physical power to claim territory or food. Even a drunken fight in a bar will get you in a lot of legal trouble. E.g. being a stronger ape gets you exactly nowhere in life if you use want your power to dominate. You could use it to create, and you’d be rewarded.

Very similarly the economic system could be trivially adjusted to conform the societal values and violations would be prosecuted. All this requires is a democratic choice.

The societies so far democratically have no chosen to abolish capitalism. Although a lot of western-european democracies have severely limited the potential for abuse from this system.

We don’t need to develop mechanisms, we don’t need violent protests, we don’t need vigilantes. We simply need for people to choose differently. And if they don’t, it’s their choice.

Ah, yes, you in your default country definitely need a better democratic system, although Trump did win the popular vote, so I wouldn’t hope for that much change tbh.

That just shows how lemmy would be willing to eat alive anyone being able to critically think instead of repeating their pre-recorded mantras on what’s good and what’s bad.

You’re ridiculous, and probably 18.

You live in a country that couldn’t elect Bernie as a president. There’s no peaceful protest happening. And yet you claim violence is the only option.

In reality, half of your country simply disagrees with you. Start your violence, get a civil war, and maybe you’ll finally settle things somewhere somehow.

But don’t bullshit about effectiveness of peaceful protest.

Trump won a majority vote in the most recent election. Peacefully, your country chose corpos over moderate middle (there’s no left in your politics). Their peaceful protest works flawlessly. You’re just not on the winning side of the protest so you call for violence. You will lose this fight too.

Are you shooting down CEOs? No? Then you’re part of the problem with being pathetically weak.

So many words to explain how you literally have no clue about how the law works.

Yeah, but is it valid in American English to call someone a roommate even though each of you have a separate room?

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