🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Joe Biden has pardoned his whole family.

Watchdog group accuses RFK Jr. of voter fraud - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/rfk-voter-ny-accusations-00196984

#Capitalism Explained...

#Quotes from @freemo conversations in digestible bullet points...

💬 ✒️ Capitalism (free markets), in it's correct meaning, is not a rule so much as an ideological guideline, and in reality should be in a #mix of many things, where #capitalism is only an #influence of *some* things (not all).

💬 ✒️ We don't live in a country that is a pure capitalism, or even much of a capitalism at all...
Right now we don't have free markets, and that's the point.

💬 ✒️ Not only is it not a free market, but it is quite far away from being one.

All-in- version...

💬 ✒️ We also shouldn't strive for capitalism (free markets) as the default, it's not a rule so much as an ideological guideline, and the reality should be a mix of many things, where capitalism is only an influence.

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☑️ is a way of doing things as a guideline - and not for everything to be done in this way.

☑️ Capitalism isn't a binary word to say government is or isn't Capitalism since it's mixed.

☑️ #Plutocracy probably as better word.

#Plutocracy as a best word to replace Capitalism maybe.

Capitalism perhaps does not mention the rich explicitly -
specifically the rich is perhaps more what people mean sometimes! 💰 🤑

(Plutocracy = #political #system governed by the #wealthy people)

Perhaps "Capital" in the word also helps people not see or assume centralization rather than the many versions, including Free Market version which is important next to the word as a kind of sub-type of it"

🔗 Capitalism (free markets)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

The R̶e̶p̶u̶b̶l̶ #MAGA party has ambitions to achieve #enshittification. All political parties do. This is when two groups that need each other, or think they do, become so dependent on an intermediary between that the intermediary can abuse & exploit both groups. The MAGA party intermediates between the ownership class and the exploited class. They have the exploited class completely bound to them but not so much the ownership class.

That will be ...

Israel failed to provide evidence that Kamal Adwan Hospital was being used by Hamas: Analysis

You don't need evidence when you're committing genocide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-h7-BJvUL4

Mixin is a trait/mixin and bytecode weaving framework for Java using ASM
L: https://github.com/SpongePowered/Mixin
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527947
posted on 2024.12.27 at 21:10:48 (c=0, p=3)

“Well at least next year cannot be as bad as this year…”

— Me every year since 2019 and now hoping to FINALLY be right. (Knock on wood)

@Paulos_the_fog

> Governments in civilized countries have imposed a statutory minimum salary to avoid exploitative employers from paying starvation wages but I suppose that offends your libertarian principles!

I am more offended by the loaded language to imply that anyone who doesnt agree with your approach to solving the problem isnt civilized.

You have only proven my point, it is /**the governments** responsibility to ensure the market is healthy, not the company. Applying a minimum wage is one way in which governments attempt to execute on their responsiblity to fix the markets, it is also a way in which they fail and make the markets worse.

Minimum wage has shown to increase the number of people who are jobless among the least skilled of the population (those without HS diplomas are most effected). Ergo minimum wage laws have caused more harm towards the groups they attempt to help, therefore, no I do not support it. Instead I support programs that are aimed at increasing the marketability of the population such as government paid education up to the PhD level and strong welfare programs.

> The problem with even the most generous statutory minimum wage is that it is seldom increased to keep up with inflation.

Thats not the problem, in fact, the more you increase it the more you harm the people most in poverty, those who are under-skilled. So no, doing that would just make it worse.

> Welfare is not and never has been what folk want;

A heroin addict wants nothing but heroin. Giving people what they want isnt what I care about. Giving people what they need is.

> What they want is decent work with pay that enables them to pay their rent or their mortgage and raise their families if they have one. It's the billionaires who run the world's largest corporations who are amongst the worst offenders for paying starvation wages with Bezos being a fine example!

Which is exactly why you need welfare and a generous paid education system up to PhD level. Welfare feeds the people and gives them a basic quality of life. That only buys them time. It is only from the education and training provided that a real solution comes, and that solution is exactly what you describe, the ability to make good money for reasonable work.

@randahl