Why cull the population? Not to offend you but this is such a flat-earth level of a conspiracy that doesn’t even make sense if you spend more than 5 minutes on it.

Cheers! I’m a fan of anarchy as well :)

Market capture is one of the major goals of capitalism because it allows for continuing, unconstrained profits.

I feel like you’re going a bit into the weeds here. That’s goal of any participant in game theory - capture and win as much as possible. So it doesn’t matter what economic framework you’re using every participant will try to claim the biggest piece of the pie. At least capitalism tries to address this with “checks and balances” of competition while other systems just blindly work on faith that human virtue will be stronger than game-theory which it absolutely might be, at some point?

To be fair, the kind of capitalism you’re talking about is/would be heavily regulated

Any system ought to be. There’s no system that you can just let loose and have it self correct for itself, that’s a fairy-level of a delusion. People are very smart and will always figure out how to game a system.

In other words, a non-intelligent system will always be conquered by an intelligent participant, always.

Where capitalism extremists do delude themselves here is that “capitalism can be a sufficiently intelligent system” (the invisible hand) if it defers intelligence to game-theory level competition: because we all check ourselves we end up low-key giving intelligence to the system. Unfortunately this is just impossible to stabilize without unified borg-like society where everyone plays under this unified system but it also doesn’t mean there isn’t value of introducing some intelligence to the markets under intelligent supervision.

nope, shitty people and authoritaniasm is destroying our planet. Often quite literally too.

Dumping is the natural end of overproduction or under consumption

This doesn’t make sense in this context of dumping. It’s intentional overproduction for market capture not some inbalance in the market.

It’s also a tool to secure new markets. Capitalists employ it to get new customers and minimize losses. That’s why Walmart exists in small towns and why previous season’s stock goes on sale.

This is fundamentally opposite of capitalism, in fact as I said in the original comment market capture is inheritly anti-capitalist. Walmart, China etc. use abuse of power for an unnatural capture of markets. This is closer to authoritaniasm than capitalism.

Most capitalism haters fundamentally misunderstand what they’re hating it for. It’s valid to hate capitalism for it’s insufficiencies (it can be gamed and needs intervention) but it’s silly to attribute everything to some magical all powerful capitalism in the sky - this just reeks of low brow scare tactics like the red-scare.

We are not in “capitalist society” that’s a bit of an immature take as we have many ideologies and systems at play. We should identify weaknesses of all systems and use a buffet style policy making not subscribe to religion of specific rule. There are many great things in capitalism, there are many great things in controlled markets, there are even some great things in authoritarianism (i.e. wartime readiness).

Personally I don’t believe system design is all that important — it’s human virtue that drives all of this. A sufficently virtuous society would thrive under any policy framework as it would be capable of identifying faults and self correcting towards a more balanced interpretation and enforcement of any rule.

sadly not available in my region

I’ve been in the market for a decent Japanese EV for like 10 years now and still drive my 2004 toyota around. Sure China is dumping but Japan has been sleeping so hard it’s hard to have any sympathy here.

This is not capitalism as China is net-lossing market acquisition.

This is called “dumping” and is not a feature of capitalism in any way. In fact, every single economic school that likes capitalism is against it. Generally net-loss market acquisition is very bad thing for our society as it privatizes gains and socializes losses. i.e. if EV market suddenly implodes many people would be holding the bag and if EV market succeeds then only a few people profit.

Marxists themselves classify net-loss acquisition as a failure of late-stage capitalism (which is fair) but when .ml’s favorite flavor of authoritarians do it then it’s ok lmao

I’ve been reading a lot of sociology of how people overcome “bad times” and unsurprisingly the answer is almost always connection. As Israel is fundamentally anti-connection state due to being found on explicit exclusionary principle - it can never overcome “bad times” and will forever be in conflict until this is corrected.

What W by Korea. Proud

not enforcing

Seems like the law doesn’t apply here not that it’s not enforced. If war does come similar law will be passed ether way.

I’d agree with you though from philosophical pov - the government should never be allowed to contain you even if you’re dodging the draft.

Nah your diminishing the efforts of domestic Israeli opposition. It has been significantly weakened but your statement is unfair to people who tried. To truly change this we need both internal and external pressures and cooperation.

I never commented anything even remotely close to zionism. Israel is still the only place that at least tries to respect individual rights of it’s society (like being gay).

The issue really is the change in utilitarian calculation as their spread of injustice and disruption in the region far outweighs their respect for individual freedoms thus it turned from a problematic net positive to a very clear net negative.

Disgusting how little coverage this is getting.

I used to side with Israel (you can check my history) but it’s clear that Israeli people have given up on justice and fully embraced fascism.

Maybe bit it’s more likely it’s jus5 entertainment based. Women leagues are created to attract more viewers/participants.

Yes abolishing of woman sports if that helps you understand it. We can easily redesign sports grouping - it’s not nuclear weapons, not rocket science. It’s easy.

Change rooms should be unisex either way and professional sports is totally solvable - we already have weight classes etc but at the end of the day sports is just entertainment and not what we should be basing our society about. It can fuck off and disappear for all I care - plenty if other entertainment out there.

Imagine being so fucking delusional that you wear a religious head piece at the same time you wear a glorified icon of a murder tool. How can anyone take this seriously.