AnotherKiwiGuy
Testing posting from #uMastonauts to #Pleroma on a #OnePlusOne with @ubports. Camera fully zoomed in. A little blurry, but reasonable. #husky

uMastonauts is a little slow, and its basically a webapp, but at least it works. Ill be testing the speed against #Webber later today for comparison.
Shamar

@freemo

> irresponsible buyer who
> buys things they dont need

This is victim blaming. 😉

In the age of #SurveillanceCapitalism, arguing that #Ads exist to merely inform people about products they might ignore sounds very naive.

As for the rest, there are tons of model that justify pretty much anything. All wrong.

Adam Smith's model of liberal market become one of fundamental building blocks of #Capitalism as an ideology (but not the only one, as #Webber shown).

Sure, we have plenty of options if we want a model to justify the growing inequality or blame the victims for it.

But still these models do not account for obvious "externalities" (as economist dismiss them) that basically throw costs and risks out of the balance sheets.

#Inequality IS one of this overlooked externalities. #Pollution is another.

Still such externalities are not the point of my argument. It's not because of the damage they do to most of people that I cannot accept the models that link Wealth to Capitalism.

It's just that such models do not explain so many observations (those externalities, ads, addictions, workers' exploitations, political lobbying...) that they are easy to dismiss to anybody that is open to their discussion.

A more interesting issue is: what are the alternatives?

Here's one: nomadelfia.it

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