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Discussing Socialism with people who aren't well informed
  • It was kind of an epiphany in my understanding when I realized that "the market" is not exclusive to capitalism and has existed as long as goods exchange and that socialism, doesn't mean ignoring market forces or value.

  • Feature Request: Usage Warning Timer

    Feature Request:

    Optional timer to pop up a warning based on when the viewer opened the app. This is to help limit usage. Ideally either have the timer based on time open this time or total usage time per day/week.

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    Why You Will Never Retire
  • It seems like we need to build a system to guarantee a retirement. Maybe some kind of public pension? If you work thirty years, you're fully vested in your own funds independent of your employer. Build it sustainably, everybody starts from the ground up, so that a portion of the funds coming in can be saved and grow in perpetuity. Might be easier to implement with a jobs guarantee, we should be training up more medical staff and environmental/sustainablity specialists anyway. Might be even easier if the government starts building housing to a passive house standard and part of your compensation is that you can lease-to-own the housing from the government as part of your employment. These high quality units would be incredibly energy efficient, and could be built-in ways that encourage regular micro-mobility use (walking, biking, e-bike).

    How could we afford to pay for all of this? By reclaiming the stolen wages of the working class and ending The Second Gilded Age.

    • Ending Nepotism - 100% inheritance tax over some reasonably high number pegged to inflation or a better indicator (maybe real value)
    • Wealth Tax - Progressive tax based on assets owned for those as similar number as above
    • Income Tax Reform
    • Funding The IRS
    • Business Tax Reform
    • Eventual Profits From Government Financed Worker Owned Co-ops (and supporting existing small businesses)

    Both the government run and worker-owned businesses can compete in the market with big corporations and force the corps to drive down prices. That way the government can moderate the financial sector (who is driving the inequality) indirectly through market competition.

  • What the Hell Was Teamsters’ President Thinking With That RNC Speech?
  • His whole speech was a call for bipartisanship and for all workers to unite along class lines. Aside from a tiny bit of pandering to the venue/audience which makes the rightwing audience more receptive to the message, he didn't endorse or praise the Republican party. If you want Republican voters to wake up and vote in their own interest, this is how the message has to go. It's also a great way to sow division within the Republican party.

  • feature request: block a community

    I scroll all:scaled fairly often, as my list of subs isn't super active, but there are some communities that come up fairly often that I would rather not see. Is there a way to implement that on the client side or would that require a Lemmy change?

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    It's not the poor folk

    A musical response to rich man north of Richmond.

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    Fire Up Friday!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTSpOZMZQI

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    Looking for Long-form Solarpunk Fiction I can loose myself in, any suggestions?

    I love Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin's work, but most of the solarpunk content I've come across is short stories. What would y'all recommend that I can get lost in for a while?

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)CL
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