What exactly does the data show? The only socialist country on the list in China at #45 while the US is #27 (not great)

If you are saying that the US should be more like Northern Europe then I agree

The rich and powerful in socialist countries were born into it.

I can’t argue with social mobility being harder than ever under capitalism now. But perception often lags reality which is why people defend the broken system

In America, we grow up to really cherish liberty and freedom of choice (even if it just the illusion of choice) and so we really idealize entrepreneurship.

Capitalism is the only economic system that allows upward class mobility

The examples of socialism/communism collapse are all within the lifetimes of most (or not far off for those of us under 40). Capitalism hasn’t quite failed yet (2008 hurt a lot and woke some people up to its failures).

It may not be popular with some of the instances on the fediverse but capitalism is the least flawed of all the flawed economic systems. The systems are flawed because they are ran by flawed humans. The best societies take strengths of each system and combine them to mitigate the flaws of each. Capitalism with strong social safety nets is probably the best that humans can do.

Just quick mental math here. If they had every person on earth to pay them a $5 annual subscription. That’d be $30B in revenue, $50 a year $300B, $500 $3T, $5000 $30T.

So they plan on charging every person on earth $5k? Get real

Are any of your siblings married or have SOs? Most people in the US prefer to be buried with their spouse than their parents. At least in any graveyard I’ve been too, that’s how it is.

Maybe tell him, it’s a waste of money if it’s only going to be him and your mother buried there.

They change their presenting gender, but not their sex so I don’t think it’s accurate to call yourself homosexual.

I don’t think there is any reason to label it personally

If I know gamers, it will be just as effective as the Modern Warfare 2 PC boycott back in the day

The porn is going to go away or be way lower quality. People are not going to post stolen pornographic content on account tied to their real identity.

No instances have to be shut down, if Lemmy world asks users to perform age verification, I’ll just move my account to sh.itjust.works and those who are ok with giving strangers their ID can stay on Lemmy.world. And so on and so forth until you find an instance that you trust that doesn’t live in a jurisdiction that bends the knee

Start with the assumption the video is fake. Do you trust the source? If the video is of something outrageous, did you notice something feels uncanny? Does the lighting, shot angle, and proportions make sense?

If the answer is not yes, no, yes then it’s probably AI

Coalition building is required in any free society, and guess what, non-participation isn’t absolution.

Lemmy.ml “Don’t hate the west while looking past Uyghurs in China” Challenge (Impossible)

Do they deserve to die? That’s not for me to judge but they deserve to have their excess wealth confiscated and distributed for the betterment of society

Banks also pay the depositors interest so you should want the bank to make money. Unless you suggest that we should be storing our money in coffee cans and burying them in the yard. In which case, your money is even less valuable due to inflation and their is less money for the bank to lend to you community.

That being said banks should be regional and community focused and should never be allowed to grow to the size where if they make bad investments it takes our entire financial system down with it.

Banks like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers etc are scams

I almost never see politics in my feed. But Lemmy itself was created by leftist communists, it was never built to be a politics free space

It takes manual curation if you want to avoid it

Rapidly aging refers to the trend line of average age rapidly increasing over time. Not people rapidly aging.

Pokemon is the most overrated series? Everyone game is the same except for 100 new monsters and 1 new battle gimmick and yet it makes more money than Mickey fuggin Mouse

The original and the expansion are honestly flawless multiplayer games. Modern Warfare and its sequel perfected the bombastic cinematic war movie style campaign and addictive multiplayer progression loop.

There is no reason to play a call of duty game beyond the first black ops (maybe MW3 just to see the conclusion of the story) but there have been, what 16 games since then?

I think Skyrim is the perfect answer to this question. It’s a good game. Everyone has played a billion files because while it’s good it’s entirely unfocused and mediocre so people don’t feel motivated to take their character to the end of the game

I’ll throw hands with anyone who doesn’t like SMB3