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Cake day: December 19th, 2024

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  • If you remove the stock market, you end up with over the counter or even worse total back room trading of company stock

    The whole point is that there slowly becomes no such thing as company stock. A precursor step for this is a requirement for all new companies to be employee owned non profits/coops.

    We need a ban of companies buying other companies. That takes care of mergers.

    However the real problem is the lack of proper high taxes for the wealthy. That has to change, so the wealthy can loose their wealth more easily.

    We need all of the above.


  • I think this approach is a good step along the way.

    But I also think we need a permanent moratorium on IPOs. The stock market is a vehicle for the rich first and foremost, and it is an inherently anti democratic institution. It needs to die, and such a moratorium would lessen the chaos of it’s death.

    We also need a ban on corporate mergers. The stock market at least has the pretense of helping the workers through retirement accounts, but the same cannot be said of mergers.






  • it is easier to explain than most other systems because it is just the natural extension of “I aquired this fur pelt and will defend it” just with a mandatory insurance scheme (government police/laws/military) and more distributed wealth (fractional ownership).

    Any system can be easily explained when you just ignore loads of details, emergent behaviors, the goals of the system, and the efficacy of those goals.

    Communism is just the natural extension of “we are communal creatures, and community ownership protects us all”.










  • It gets worse. Half the site is MVC, half is blazor. We depend on mainframe connections and external vendors, who in turn have their own API, which we have a wrapper API for.

    The entire grahql fusion schema got nuked about two months ago, and we’re still panicking to fix it.

    And each of our environments are half environments, that mesh with one another to create a data integrity hellscape.

    It’s turtles rot all the way down.




  • Which is exactly why I’m not handing them out to random strangers. I’m only personally going to be giving them to friends who have frequently trusted me to have full access to their computers anyways

    Ah, that definitely changes things a bit. I hope that goes well for you and the people you know!

    As far as the physical booklet goes the reason I’m not going that route is mainly just from my personal experience writing instructions for factory workers, some of whom brag about being borderline illiterate. I’ve found that if you give people too much information in a single doccument then they tend to not read any of it.

    That’s very fair. I’ve noticed that tendency within myself as well. Though I feel that a one page booklet, if well designed could manage to be brief enough to help somebody through a basic installation and use of Tor. It’s not much more complicated than installing your average desktop application.

    It’d just have to be very light on wording for each page, and primarily use pictures.

    My best geuss is if a single doccument has enough sections then it starts triggering some ingrained textbook phobia.

    Perhaps, though it also might just be that dense or long documents quickly become overwhelming. So people just say “fuck it, I don’t care”.