you are anticapitalist because you are poor
i am anticapitalist because it penalizes excellent engineering
we are not the same
i am anticapitalist because it penalizes excellent engineering
we are not the same
@icedquinn current system isn’t capitalism
@arcana planned obsolescence is still a function of the market.
building something perfect that never needs repairs gets you paid once, but you have to pay for food daily. thus the optimal outcome is to either 1) rent seek, or 2) spike the product however hard people will put up with, so you keep getting paid.
building something perfect that never needs repairs gets you paid once, but you have to pay for food daily. thus the optimal outcome is to either 1) rent seek, or 2) spike the product however hard people will put up with, so you keep getting paid.
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@icedquinn @arcana if "the people" were capable of rational cooperation, they'd buy more expensive better built products instead of getting duped by cheaper shit that breaks and costs them more in the long run, and so force the producers to optimise for excellent engineering or get pushed out of the market.
As per usual, it's the fault of societal inability to cooperate, and so systems based more on cooperation than on the market would therefore do even worse.
